{"id":11953,"date":"2017-09-26T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T02:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11953"},"modified":"2017-09-26T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T02:23:37","slug":"11953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/26\/11953\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are We Benefiting Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think buying in bulk is a good thing? Think again, says <\/a>Lloyd Alter on Treehugger.com<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

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The whole system is designed for and biased toward people who live in suburbs.<\/h4>\n

They are big boxes surrounded by a sea of parking and if you don\u2019t have a car you are really out of luck. But out there, the bigger the SUV, the luckier you are; you can fill it with bargains.
\n…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s grossly unfair to poor people.<\/h4>\n

They often don\u2019t have cars, and they often live day to day, so they can\u2019t plan on buying a year\u2019s worth of toilet paper. So they go to the bodega and pay ridiculous prices. Sure, it costs more to run a small store downtown than a big box, but the difference in price per unit that people pay shopping for small packages in the bodega compared to the big package in the big box is shocking.<\/p>\n

A lot of it is wasted, a lot of it is second rate, and doesn\u2019t save you any money at all.<\/h4>\n

We have this jug of dishwashing detergent from Costco that my daughter bought last year and it smells so toxic we won\u2019t use it and I am taking it to the dump. This isn\u2019t saving money. Katherine made suggestions for buying in bulk but, over time, some of them deteriorate; beans get stale, pasta gets bugs, and olive oil is better fresh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you don’t already have it, you can’t get it, in some ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Think buying in bulk is a good thing? Think again, says Lloyd Alter on Treehugger.com: The whole system is designed for and biased toward people who live in suburbs. They are big boxes surrounded by a sea of parking and if you don\u2019t have a car you are really out \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11955,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11953\/revisions\/11955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}