Comment · Tue, December 5, 2017
Will it ever be possible to have a buyer customized, conveniently prepacked stack of different capsules?
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ShouldReallyGetWorkn · 1 points
This is more of a far future thing that I think would be really nice to have, I don't really expect this to happen any time soon.
Right now, I buy each supplement I and get separate bottles. Let's say it's a bottle of piracetam pills, a bottle of cordyceps pills, a bottle of gs-15-4 capsules, some vitamin d pills, some epicor pills, some magnesium pills.
This is gonna sound pretty lazy, but I find it tedious to open each bottle, grab a pill from each one, then screw the lid back on for each. Same action done 6 times, every morning.
If I could just open one container and grab a packet that contains each of those 6 supplements already portioned in the amount I want, that would make my inner sloth so happy. That's some real grab-n-go convenience.
I'd be willing to pay a reasonable amount for that extra convenience.
I'm just wondering if that will ever be something that's cost effective, where you have a user adding a bunch of supplements to their cart, then having a prepack option that let's you customize a packet containing each of the supplements you bought in whatever serving size for each supplement.
Like I said, just nice to have.
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Haha, that would be fairly difficult for a number of reasons. One, we would need extra machinery for that. That machinery is not common. So it would be a custom job. I've seen lines made for mail order prescription companies that fill packages with exact amounts of various capsules/pills before, but that was like a million dollar machine.
Two, it would need to be done in such a way where we could ensure things were tracked and logged in a GMP/FDA approved manner. That's a lot harder than it sounds. The recent FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) put in a lot of new reforms that make the processes for packaging and tracking very stringent. I am not sure I would know where to begin if we were custom packaging packets on-demand for each customer.
It something that sounds cool but would be a very big task to actually make work. We are going to launch premade stacks with our new company. So perhaps one of those might work for you, and you can just open one bottle to take the stack.