supermarket subscriptions

• conceptual brainstorm on supermarket subscriptions for transition to uncommodified basic supplies
• Use data from eg Tesco Clubcard accounts to estimate any relevant average of spending and transfer to a subscription of that amount in lieu of paying for individual items
  • products still tracked to account for supply/demand logistics
  • can start by making use of existing specific funds
    • eg gov funding for low-income families
    • eg non-profit funding for marginalised groups
    • eg charity funding for those with specific disabilities
  • and/or use this funding to make up any difference in supply cost to lower costs for consumers
  • funnelling funding directly to everyday groceries for as many as possible
  • with goal to eliminate any cost forwarded to consumer but still paying supplier
  • pushes food supply labour costs onto collective purpose-driven groups and state
  • this could ideally support adjacent work in un-commodifying basic supplies and end in entirely cost-free local production and supply that ensures widespread food security
  • or at least turns ‘feeding the nation’ directly to a financial collective responsibility, for which the state is more pressured to fulfil
  • or at possibly moves the pressure onto local producers which would hopefully inspire pressure on the state through greater collaboration across the industry
  • may produce tension from producers or desire from companies to source from further away
  • may produce social tension in early stages if subsidised subscriptions are unevenly spread
  • may be awful in implementation as with similar schemes due to over-bureaucratic procedure
  • may require small logistical work on implementing item limits according to supply forecasts
  • what is the motive for higher-ups at the supermarket companies to accept no longer making profit?
  • administrative costs? almost certainly can be dealt with if removing any allowance of profit
  • how to un-motivate competition between the various big supermarkets?
  • is it even worth making a business-focused argument when it is inherently a socio-economic-political pressure necessary to achieve this socio-economic-political goal? it is worth financial analysis obviously if implemented but maybe not worth justification in purely financial terms as a pitch
  • some uk big ones wanted to merge recently? was it sainsburys + asda? what was their motivation?
  • look to examples of food banks and similar for their more honest appraisal of cost and their experience in minimising waste and taking advantage of all possible resources