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I'm doing this with apple picking once a year. 10-12 of us go to pick apples, we pay for the wholesale price, and have fun while at it. We each end up with 10-15kg of apples, gives us a fun day out in 'nature' (we're mostly goofing around than working).

You are your own Costco, smart idea, bulk discounts too.

Love this idea! Does the group coordinate manually or is there an app/service that helps organize this for people near you?

Manually. Its an old group, it predates widespread use of email. Nowadays it uses Google Sheets to coordinate.