Bulk products integration

Bulk products are products that are sold in shops without packaging. The consumers fills a container s/he brought her/himself or is offered by the shop. This way the consumer can buy as much as needed and there is no impact on the environment due to the consumer packaging. The shop keeper buys the product in bulk packaging and keeps the containers filled up.

OFF can support these kind of products by creating products without barcode, such as this one. The advent of OFF prices allows us to do things a bit differently.

But this raises also other issues that will be discussed. The end goal is to update OFF with Bulk products entered on OFF Prices.

Bulk product categories

OFF Prices allows the user to enter the prices of bulk products. For each product the user has to specify a category. As the variety of bulk products is not very large, there is no need to expose the user to the complexities of the Categories taxonomy, which consists of 72.000 products. A subset of the categories taxonomy is sufficient for OFF Prices.