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totientSince the start of the pandemic I've been organizing group orders from Baldor Food, a local restaurant-focused food distributor. There are a few things they do better than anyone else, or which are otherwise hard to find, but lately I and the other folks involved have had more options for the non specialty items so we're not ordering as often or leaning on them as hard as we once did.
This has exaggerated a funny effect of ordering as a group: sometimes we all want the same thing, so we can go in on a truly enormous quantity of something. But at the same time there will be some small quantities of things. Fewer of those now that they're pivoting away from the residential market, but it's still possible to buy, say, one avocado.
Or, say, 150 pounds of flour.
This has exaggerated a funny effect of ordering as a group: sometimes we all want the same thing, so we can go in on a truly enormous quantity of something. But at the same time there will be some small quantities of things. Fewer of those now that they're pivoting away from the residential market, but it's still possible to buy, say, one avocado.
Or, say, 150 pounds of flour.
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Date: 2022-07-16 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-16 07:39 pm (UTC)I worked in a small, family-owned restaurant supply store, long ago. I have unloaded a truck full of fifty-pound bags of flour, without pallets. I have also picked an order, from the back, for a customer who wanted two such bags and a five-hundred ml jar of mustard.
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Date: 2022-07-17 05:37 pm (UTC)