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The entire big box economy is a big honking subsidy to people with cars living in the suburbs by the poor, the singles, the seniors, the urban, the cyclists.
It only works because of the highways and the parking lots and the infrastructure paid for by everyone (road taxes do not cover the cost of the roads) and enjoyed by the drivers. The companies charge twice as much for small packages as big ones because they can; the purchasers without cars and access to the big boxes, the ability to drive between the Walmart and the Costco and the Price Club, don't have a choice.
Read on for Treehugger's reasons. Is bulk buying bad after all?
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Does Buying in Bulk Save Money, or is it a False Economy?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 25 2017, @11:16PM
Oftentimes things are still perfectly good well beyond their expiration dates. Also, if you store things properly, you can stop food from going bad so quickly. The fact that the author complains about bugs getting into food and food going stale indicates to me that they're not storing things properly.
The nonsense about the supposed biases of buying in bulk has nothing to do with whether it is cheaper in the long wrong; it is just off-topic.