On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 10:24:15 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-01-07 1:47 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>
>> None of my shops have bulk that allows dipping. It's all drop down
>> from a release door into a bag you hold beneath the door.
>
>The bulk sales around here tend to have small bins with scoops. The
>only ones that are drop down are for coffee.
>
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candy, nuts, rice, beans, pasta, coffee, snack mix, breakfast cereal,
oats and breakfast grains, assorted grain, sugar, I know there are
more.
> > You live
>> around some pretty old fashioned stuff. I usually have to wait behind
>> the employee that is refilling the bulk bins. Sometimes they are
>> filled twice daily. My shops know their customers well and don't
>> stock stuff that doesn't move.
>>
>
>I know they are constantly re-filling the bins in the Bulk Barn because
>there are always one or two people doing that when I am there. Some of
>the bins for things like flour and sugar look huge, but they have false
>bottoms on them. What looks big enough to hold 200 lb of product might
>only have 20 lb.
>
That's because they want you to scoop, not crawl into the container.
Janet US