I'm in a food buying club with a few dozen others. We mostly buy staples in bulk from distributors and divide things up. We'll get things like 50 pound bags of rice, 5 gallons of oil, etc. A side benefit is less plastic waste since everyone bring their own containers. An even better side benefit is that acquaintances become friends.
You are your own Costco, smart idea, bulk discounts too.
Love this idea! Does the group coordinate manually or is there an app/service that helps organize this for people near you?
Manually. Its an old group, it predates widespread use of email. Nowadays it uses Google Sheets to coordinate.
I'm doing this with apple picking once a year. 10-12 of us go to pick apples, we pay for the wholesale price, and have fun while at it. We each end up with 10-15kg of apples, gives us a fun day out in 'nature' (we're mostly goofing around than working).