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'It's 5:30am on a cold Saturday and Paddy's Markets Flemington, a fruit and
vegetable market in western Sydney, is already buzzing.
Trolleys weave through shoppers bargaining with cash in hand and traders
shouting their prices.
Josh Blythe and his son Chris have arrived with a mammoth task.
"We are here to feed 12 families for the next week with a bunch of fruit and
veggies," the co-founder of Killarney Heights Fruit Co-op tells
The Business.
Mr Blythe's cooperative is a voluntary bulking buying community group.
Each family devotes three to four hours of their time once every three months
to do the shopping.
The budget is $20 a family for a box of fresh produce that lasts for a week.
"We generally get higher volume, lower costs and better quality than some of
the major supermarkets," Mr Blythe said.
They take the food home and divide it up before it's collected by the rest of
the families.
The goal is to save money on groceries.
"If we had to do that in the [major] supermarkets, it would probably be about
$60 a week," Mr Blythe said.
"We're probably saving two-thirds on our weekly grocery bill just for the fruit
and veggies."'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
