You have to distinguish between two things: where you shop and what you buy. First, a preconceived idea to dismantle: organic bulk is actually cheaper in a specialized store than in a supermarket. The association 60 million consumers has demonstrated this.
Then for conventional bulk we can also do good business in supermarkets but this remains more marginal because the prices are already so low that the room for maneuver is limited…
Bulk has another advantage: you only buy what you really need…
So that’s an indirect economy. If you only need 20 grams of raisins to make a cake, there’s no need to buy the 100-gram packet thinking “it’ll end up being useful to me one day”…we often know how it ends: the bin. Buying in bulk is actually buying only what you need, another source of savings next to the purchase price.
There are more and more bulk foods now
Clearly: chocolate, yogurt too, cream, sweets, household products and even coffee, tea or herbal tea. You can find it on the markets, in organic stores, supermarkets of course, but also more and more specialized grocery stores. Moreover, the Vrac network association which promotes this mode of consumption has published an interactive map. And then you know, beyond the price, bulk is all less packaging, so less waste, enough to motivate you a little more..