Honey Stix or Straws

[Stung]

I have a customer that has asked me if I could get Honey Stix for them. I can get them but what would I charge a piece, 50 or 100 packs. What should the markup be.

 

[dpearce4]

what are they do you have a picture?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I assume taster sticks - why don't they just pinch them from Starbucks - that place has to have some purpose seeing the coffee is so sh!te

 

[megadyptes]

These things? Honeystix

What should the markup be.

I guess that really depends on what business model you want to go with. You could simply cover your costs and add a fixed margin (say +50%), or you could consider the 'value' your customer places on them and go for whatever you thing that price would be. If they're desperate for them and you're the only realistic source, then you can essentially name your price.

How come they can't get them themselves - there must be countless places to get them on-line

 

[Cellectronic]

I agree with Jenkins

 

[pargyle]

I assume taster sticks - why don't they just pinch them from Starbucks - that place has to have some purpose seeing the coffee is so sh!te

I rather like a Starbucks Latte once in a while when I can raise the finance ! I see they have started hiding the stirrers away in dispensers so you can't grab a handful any more ... you've obviously been rumbled !!

 

[dexter's shed]

mac donalds coffee stirrers work well too, they don't hide those

 

[idg]

I rather like a Starbucks Latte once in a while when I can raise the finance ! I see they have started hiding the stirrers away in dispensers so you can't grab a handful any more ... you've obviously been rumbled !!

Did you know that "latte" in Italian actually means - "you've paid too much for your coffee!"

 

[pargyle]

Did you know that "latte" in Italian actually means - "you've paid too much for your coffee!"

It's the same meaning in any language .... vastly over priced but one of life's little luxuries ... and if you think the coffee is expensive - you obviously have not tried their muffins !!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

mac donalds coffee stirrers work well too, they don't hide those

Maybe - but I couldn't cope with the stigma if I was seen walking into one of those places

 

[pargyle]

Maybe - but I couldn't cope with the stigma if I was seen walking into one of those places

You only have to do it once and be seen .. you then keep the brown paper bag, cut a couple of holes in it for your eyes and then wear it whenever you go in to nick their stirrers ...

Mind you ... I am a bit addicted to their caramel sundaes ...so I occasionally put up with the stigma, borrow the wife's car and go through the drive-thru !

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

When I worked in Holland I would occasionally pop in, not to buy food but to use their toilets (only place they didn't charge) what we quaintly described as having.............

A Mc Sh!t and lies ​

 

[Worldsend]

Only person I know locally selling them imports them from America -look like little straws filled with honey

Sell like wildfire for 50p ish I think

Hugh mark up -only downside is that you have to purchase several thousand of them

 

[pargyle]

Only person I know locally selling them imports them from America -look like little straws filled with honey

Sell like wildfire for 50p ish I think

Hugh mark up -only downside is that you have to purchase several thousand of them

You would need very good eyesight and a very small funnel to fill them ...

 

[mbc]

You would need very good eyesight and a very small funnel to fill them ...

And ultrafiltered overheated honey

 

[Tremyfro]

What a fab idea....
Buy the fat straws from ikea....cut to size.....use a length of tubing to suck up the honey...seal with a heat sealer.....
Wow...bet they would sell like hot cakes!

 

[pargyle]

What a fab idea....
Buy the fat straws from ikea....cut to size.....use a length of tubing to suck up the honey...seal with a heat sealer.....
Wow...bet they would sell like hot cakes!

IKEA .... a two mile walk round the store and an hour wait at the checkout - resisting the temptation for one of their hotdogs on the way out and paying the parking charge as I won't hit the £10 minimum purchase - for a pack of their fat straws ... Hmmm - I think I will pass on that idea !

 

[Tremyfro]

IKEA .... a two mile walk round the store and an hour wait at the checkout - resisting the temptation for one of their hotdogs on the way out and paying the parking charge as I won't hit the £10 minimum purchase - for a pack of their fat straws ... Hmmm - I think I will pass on that idea !

The thing is that you have to know the shortcuts through their store...to go direct to where you want to be....thereby avoiding all temptation....exiting with fat straws....and here .....no car parking charges.
Or......get a mate to purchase for you...on their shopping trip.....total avoiding of hotdog temptation and carpark charges and queuing boredom.

 

[pargyle]

The thing is that you have to know the shortcuts through their store...to go direct to where you want to be....thereby avoiding all temptation....exiting with fat straws....and here .....no car parking charges.
Or......get a mate to purchase for you...on their shopping trip.....total avoiding of hotdog temptation and carpark charges and queuing boredom.

And never EVER try taking anything back.... their torturous return and refund system works extremely well as, once you have experienced it, you will never take anything back again.

I thought I knew the shortcuts in my local IKEA store but I think they changed some of the areas round and I'm back to following the blasted arrows ... I reckon people die in there looking for a £3.99 beech chopping board ... they either die of exhaustion or succumb to the Swedish meat (MEAT I SAID) balls ..... what sort of meat they are ? Answers on a postcard to the Swedish Embassy ....

 

[Tremyfro]

Meat Balls...probably equine.......
With those inside you....a quick gallop for the exit!
Clearly....IKEA is not for you....
Back to the drawing board....hmmmmm.....where to source fat straws?