FAQs
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.
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!
Yes! If we have the information provided to us, it will be on the respective tabs on the product page.
It reduces waste, it’s cheaper, you buy exactly what you need and it enables you to shop sustainably.
A buying club is a group of people with a common need, which in our case is for reasonably priced organic food. Those people consolidate their individual needs into one large order, purchase wholesale and in bulk.
- 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.
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.
Preorder schedule for Coconut Products ONLY (Please contact us if interested in preordering other coconut products):
Coconut Water – Order by email or online here by Sunday for Monday pick-up, by Wednesday for Thursday pick-up.
Coconut, Fresh Grated, Coconut Cream – Order by noon on Sunday for pickup on Monday.
Coconut Oil, Coconut Flour – Always available. No need to preorder.