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costs about $3 per serving Too fucking expensive for a cleverly named bachelor chow.
by tragicAndCruel 12y ago
costs about $3 per serving
Too fucking expensive for a cleverly named bachelor chow.
- baddox 12y agoBut probably considerably cheaper than what every person who has ordered Soylent was previously paying per serving.
- stormbrew 12y agoWhich is largely because every person who has ordered Soylent can afford more than $3/meal.
- baddox 12y agoThat's obviously true. What's your point?
- tragicAndCruel 12y agoNo way. I can scrape by on ramen, potato chips, soda, hot dogs, orange juice concentrate, cereal and milk, and come out ahead (YMMV). GNC quality protein shakes be damned. This stuff has to hit the 25 cent mark, per glass, to qualify for it's target market: the unwed and unloved who have no one to cook them decent meals while toiling away at shit jobs.
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- gfodor 12y agoi have to imagine that if Soylent manages to scale up their business this is going to get much, much cheaper.
- stormbrew 12y agoI don't think it can get any cheaper than any practical cheap-food alternatives. It's using basically the same things as source material, often with much more processing done to them to get them into this powdered form. Less work (economically) goes into making Kraft Dinner than Soylent could ever hope to get to, I would think. Never mind stuff like soy and rice, which are probably (well, obviously in soy's case) the basic inputs that end up in soylent, and already have massive economies of scale working in their favour.
- gfodor 12y agoI have to imagine that Soylent's long term vision is to control the entire supply chain.
- ceejayoz 12y agoSorry, what? You think Soylent wants to buy a bunch of farms?
- gfodor 12y agoProbably, in the long run.
- tragicAndCruel 12y agoVertical integration means owning the farms, production facilities, shipping and distribution, retail fronts, and maybe even operating some form of fast food franchise. The only thing that could possibly make soylent faster than fast would be drive-thru. If I could order a 24 oz. soylent for $1, instead of a strawberry shake, I could envision a future where I might actually eat soylent more than once a week and across a cumulative duration of longer than 4 weeks per any given year.
- psychometry 12y agoThe price will almost surely go down as the company streamlines processing and improves its supply chain. Economies of scale and the likelihood of future competition will make it even cheaper.
- gamblor956 12y agoUnless Soylent's changed its mind about using organic ingredients, it's costs will increase as it scales. Organic foodstuffs are subject to significant demand right now and prices have been going up consistently for years. As a niche player Soylent simply will not have the leverage to negotiate favorable prices in sufficient quantities.
- psychometry 12y agoSo some of their ingredients might increase in price. That doesn't mean that they won't find significant savings elsewhere, for instance all the other possible improvements I mentioned that you ignored. Also, they might be a niche player now, but could grow and negotiate better deals with suppliers.
- drewrv 12y agoI'd pay a bit more per serving if I could order just one bag to try it. Right now the smallest order on their website is $85. I'd never spend that on food that I may hate.