Park Slope Food Coop Killer?: Wholeshare

photo via Park Slope Lens

Have you been suspended at the Coop? At a loss for where to get your organic fruitz, but too lazy to go do your 12 make-up shifts?

BOOM!

Behold: Wholeshare.

I'm semi-banking on this shit as the Park Slope Food Coop killer.

Wholeshare allows groups of users to join together to pool their orders to purchase from local farmers who only sell in bulk. Then all y'all save up to 20-30% on everything that you buy. It's like a virtual Park Slope Food Coop! But with way the hell fewer rules!

You can form groups however you want: with your neighbors, your co-workers, or your home birthing class friends. Everyone gets an account, fills up their cart, and then when you reach the minimum group requirement for purchase, your shit gets sent to one address. You can even "split" orders. So if you wanna buy cheddar cheese, for example, but the farm that's selling it only sells it in a 10 pound quanitity: don't worry! You don't have to get THAT fat! You can just click on the split button on your cart and then the rest of your group gets some email that's like: "hey, I don't want to get super fat, so I'm only buying 1 lb of cheddar...anyone else wanna split the rest with me?" Then the item only gets officially added to your cart if the rest of your group members step up to the plate and order enough to meet the minimum requirement of all of you getting fat.

Once you form a group, you can post to your group page, send messages back and forth, and see all your past orders.

Ok, truth time: I *did* request an account today so that I could see what this was all about, and they're not quite in our area yet. BUT THEY ARE COMING.

So, stay tuned for the scoop on the FIPS NO BABIES ALLOWED Wholeshare group. Orange vests will totes be optional.

(via Mashable)