Yes. We have to pay our bills, but have no investors or shareholders requiring us to provide them with profits.

FAQs Archive - Boquete Bulk Organics Buying Club

Q: What should I do to become a member?

You have heard about us, and now you've found our website. It provides email access, location, and hours. You are welcomed to use any or all of them. Come for a visit. Look at our facility, walk through the inventory, see how we function, ask your questions. When you like what you see, you can become a member and shop in the same visit.

Q: How/Why do you sell liquids by the pound?

We sell everything by the pound unless it is a unit unto itself, like a bar of soap, or a prepackaged item like almond milk. We need to be able to fill each person's container with, and charge them for, only their desired amount, which we can do by the pound for everything. The container is weighed in advance, and then the difference with the amount once the content is in is what is charged.

Q: I cannot find the product I am looking for, what can I do?

If you do not find what you are looking for, please look ate our major supplier website to find it and then let us know if you do and we can potentially order it!

Q: Why can't I login and place an order online?

You either do not have a membership yet or we have not had the opportunity to create you an account with the new system. Please contact us and we will assist accordingly.

Q: Are there any other benefits?

BOBC is non-profit. We have to pay our bills but have no investors or shareholders requiring us to provide them with profits. Each new buying club member brings added and appreciated strength to the collective power of all members. BOBC is positioned to provide benefits to Panama. The group and it's function is established, growing, and refining itself. It will eventually be available to provide a job or two, which isn't earth shattering, but it'll be jobs in a previously nonexistent business. People who work here and learn the business, can take it to other towns, create even greater buying power for all of us, and new small Buying Clubs can provide organic foods to other communities. By selling imported products in Panama, we can discover how much of a domestic market there is for that product. If it's something that can be grown here, like black pepper, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, acerola, galangal root, peanuts, nutmeg, ginger, and more, then we can provide interested farmers with information. We could contract, before seeds go in the ground, that we want 400# of what you're growing and will pay $4/# for it. That takes all the risk and guesswork out of choosing a crop to plant. It's a huge advantage for a farmer and saves the world from having to transport those items here.

Q: Can I find nutrition information, preparation or ingredients?

Yes! If we have the information provided to us, it will be on the respective tabs on the product page.

Q: Why should I buy in bulk?

It reduces waste, it's cheaper, you buy exactly what you need and it enables you to shop sustainably.

Q: Does BOBC accept credit cards?

No. You can only place an order online for cash at pickup, or come into the store and pay.

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