&gt;&gt; -A single banana costs $.40. At scale, a banana is $.10.<p>There&#x27;s a model for &quot;direct from farmer meat&quot;: you pay a monthly $3-5 rent for a meat locker in your city , and than you can cheaply buy  meat online from a variety of farmers . It does cut costs. And of course , this allows a group of people to buy in volume.