cheeze plant whey powder

Quoted message said:

Hi all,

I find the cost of whey very expensive and was looking for way to cut
my costs.
I found a cheeze plant who will sell me a 80 kg sack of whey powder for
80 bucks.
My question is this, what extra processing is done by the manufactures
who charge quite a bit more for a similar product.

I realise that the protein mite be a more digestable form and they
would cut out the lactose.

mary jane.

If you buy an 80kg sack(~176 lbs!!) wouldn't you be worried that it
would spoil before you could use it all? Just how shelf stable is whey?
I guess if you had one of those vaccum sealer things you could pack it
up pretty well. Even then though, that sounds like such a ridiculous
amount of whey. Just how much whey do you consume to make the standard
sized packages unreasonably expensive? Some of the better grocery stores
like trader joe's have their own store brand whey powders that
are quite cheap. Also, maybe look into online sources.
I just trouble believing that buying in such a massive quantity makes
any sense for anybody unless you were trying to provide for several
people!

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Hi all,

I find the cost of whey very expensive and was looking for way to cut
my costs.
I found a cheeze plant who will sell me a 80 kg sack of whey powder for
80 bucks.
My question is this, what extra processing is done by the manufactures
who charge quite a bit more for a similar product.

I realise that the protein mite be a more digestable form and they
would cut out the lactose.

mary jane.

If you buy an 80kg sack(~176 lbs!!) wouldn't you be worried that it would
spoil before you could use it all? Just how shelf stable is whey?
I guess if you had one of those vaccum sealer things you could pack it up
pretty well. Even then though, that sounds like such a ridiculous
amount of whey. Just how much whey do you consume to make the standard
sized packages unreasonably expensive? Some of the better grocery stores
like trader joe's have their own store brand whey powders that
are quite cheap. Also, maybe look into online sources.
I just trouble believing that buying in such a massive quantity makes
any sense for anybody unless you were trying to provide for several
people!

Or he could buy it at WalMart.

Quoted message said:

Which "basic economic facts" are you talking about. Greenspan has
been on the record stating that Wal-Mart has been instrumental in
keeping down inflation levels. You figure you know more about
economics than Greenspan.

Well, yeah. I do. I'll not bore you with
my credentials, which I doubt you'd understand anyway.
If you think that Greenspan would ever
say anything bad about wal-mart you would be wrong.
To do so would undercut many many positions
held by his bosses.
Do you really think that wal-mart subsidizing
low wage employees on the back of government
handouts is good in any way? Where do you think
that money is coming from? Do you understand
that saving 20 cents on a tube of toothpaste
is not indicative of the health of the economy?
Do you have any understanding of any issue beyond government
press releases?

There are well over a dozen commercial forms of whey. Their protein
concentration varies according to type from fairly low to over 90%. Ask your
source about its composition.

BTW, whey is very useful as a foodstuff. 50 cents a pound is probably a
decent price. I use different forms of whey for baking, cooking,
supplements, etc. There are lots of bulk suppliers (suppliers for the food
industry) besides the supplement sellers.

And yes... there is a lot of profiteering in this area. The dealers are
simply resellers who mark up the price. The manufacturers don't mark up as
much because their customers will search around for a lower price in a
competitive marketplace.

Check out a commercial source such as Land O Lakes, for example:
http://www.landolakesfid.com/Web/home.html

This should give you an idea of the differences among whey products and also
gain an insight to where the dealers buy their products which they just
repackage, etc. Ask a manufacturer about how little they would wholesale to
you or ask them for their customers who might sell some to you.

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Quoted message said:

Hi all,

I find the cost of whey very expensive and was looking for way to cut
my costs.
I found a cheeze plant who will sell me a 80 kg sack of whey powder for
80 bucks.
My question is this, what extra processing is done by the manufactures
who charge quite a bit more for a similar product.

I realise that the protein mite be a more digestable form and they
would cut out the lactose.

mary jane.

TheGist said:

Quoted message said:

Which "basic economic facts" are you talking about. Greenspan has
been on the record stating that Wal-Mart has been instrumental in
keeping down inflation levels. You figure you know more about
economics than Greenspan.

Well, yeah. I do. I'll not bore you with my credentials, which I
doubt you'd understand anyway.

Actually, I am fascinated by your credentials.

Quoted message said:

If you think that Greenspan would ever say anything bad about
wal-mart you would be wrong. To do so would undercut many many
positions held by his bosses.

By Greenspan's "bosses" do you mean "bankers." Yeah, those guys don't
know anything about money or the economy.

Quoted message said:

Do you really think that wal-mart subsidizing low wage employees on
the back of government handouts is good in any way?

I tend to think that government handouts are a bad idea. I also
happen to believe that the market is much better at setting wages than
any other mechanism that man has ever used. If WalMart's employees
are willing to work for what WalMart pays, and if WalMart is able to
find workers of an acceptable quality at the price they are paying
then who am I to complain?

Quoted message said:

Where do you think that money is coming from?

I would much rather have people marginally employed at WalMart then
unemployed.

Quoted message said:

Do you understand that saving 20 cents on a tube of toothpaste is
not indicative of the health of the economy?

It's the basis of the health of my own personal economy. If I can get
the same goods for less (and all in one location), why would I drive
all around town and pay more?

WalMart has just realized that groceries and other common merchandise
are commodity items, and that the correct way to make money with
commodity items is by driving volume. While most of WalMart's
competition focuses on profit margins WalMart is focusing on volume
and cleaning up.

Quoted message said:

Do you have any understanding of any issue beyond government press
releases?

So far your entire argument centers around the fact that WalMart
employees get paid less than employees at other similar businesses.
That argument is forwarded much more intelligently here:

http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/lowwage/walmart_response.pdf

Personally, I like to shop at Costco, and they have a completely
different take on how employees should be treated, although they have
a very similar economic strategy:

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/printme.php3?eid=59294

In the end I believe that these sorts of decisions are best left to
the market. The people working at WalMart are adults. They probably
have a perfectly good reason for not apply at Costco. I make my
purchasing decisions based on price and required service levels, and
for me WalMart often makes a lot of sense.

Jason