Too much curry powder - want some?

Trow

I am a member of a wholefood co-op and can order certain things in bulk. I though that I would use the curry powder up - ha!

Anyway, it was a set of 6 50g boxes, all individually sealed and I have 4 and 3/4 left, with an expiry date of 27 May 05.

If anyone wants one of the full still sealed boxes, pm me with your address and I will post them out to you. If you want to pay something, buy a red nose or put something in the next charity box you see.

Trow


Edited to add - it is Suma own brand mild curry powder

vanoonoo

yay - I'mup for that - have pm'd you

it'll be my first attempt at curry with powder in my slocooker! eeek!

Pink.

Trow,

I have plenty of curry powder at the moment. I just wanted to say what a generous offer to make

Pink

vanoonoo

isnt it? I'm all excited!! hehee

tillymint

PMd you, thanks for the offer

Trow

I just think someone might as well have the use of it And I wanted this on the old style board because I like the way people on here are working!

Anyway there are still two left if anyone wants them.

Mads13

Have pm'd you

Thanks so much

Mads13
xxxx

Lychee

pm-ed you, Trow. Very nice of you to offer!

Trow

No problem!

Thats them all gone now!

Caterina

Hi Trow,

That's a very kind offer thank you! I have plenty of curry powder so I won't take it up (Probably already all allocated anyway hehehe).

I am interested on how you run your wholefood co-op as I also have started a buying group and always looking for new suggestions on how to operate it. Does the buyer do all the work? Is there a mark-up to cover buyer's expenses? How often do you buy and do you ask members to commit to a quota per month or something similar?

At the moment I am not doing any of those things (except doing all the work) and the only way that I cover my expenses (phone calls etc) is by not passing on the very small discount that I get for paying on delivery rather than by 30 day invoice.

I hope to formalise the process a bit more as the group grows, though, so I am very interested to hear about your experiences.

Thanks a million

Caterina

Trow

Ours is fairly formal, it has been established for ohhhhh must be 7 or 8 years now.

The work is split - it covers a fairly large area, so there is the coordinator (actually a couple) that organise the orders - handing out and emailing of catalogues and order forms and receival of orders, and collating them to place the order.

The treasurer gets sent the money/cheques for the order and is responsible for banking it and keeping a tally of changes in price (which does happen) and seeing who owes/is owed what.

There is a 2.5% mark up to cover expenses - we used to pay 5% but funds built up (it has its own bank account) and it was reduced to 2.5% which doesn't quite cover costs but is allowing the bank balance to come down and it will be raised again when required.

Then we now have someone else responsible for receiving the actual goods and splitting it into the individual orders. That used to be done by the same people as the ordering, but they moved and this suited better now as the orderers live some way away from the collection point - which is in actual fact a barn where there are big plastic dustbin type things that help protect the goods. We are all informed as soon as the stuff is ready and it is up to us to arrange to collect it ourselves.

We buy just twice a year - once about Easter and once about October. There is no minimum order. We live in the furthest away backwater of the country and need to order something like £2,000 to get free delivery (I think, I don't deal with that) and that is always acheived - it probably would not be if there was much more than two orders per year! Although we did have 4 per year at the start, two is fine - once for summer one for Xmas!

The commitee (all members are on the committee) meets once per year where decisions regarding when the orders should be and if we need to change the charging structure are made.

Hope this helps, any more questions, please ask!