Mmmm! Good point about the supply price changing. Most of my business involves service in some manner, but with larger customers I do have to get wholesaler’s commitments before I bid/invoice.
So you’re saying basically mundane items. That would be possible, but you’re probably going to see some sacrifice. Instead of Bounty towels and Charmin tp, you just get towels de jour and tp de jour. You also would get your items from a local retailer, but there’s very few local factories. The American consumer has backed themselves in a corner in that regard. You can’t go to the fishmonger or the wheelwright anymore. The Spatula City joke comes to mind lol
A monthly “sample of your city” order would be pretty cool, but the startup costs would be astronomical and you’d have to get hundreds of producers to buy into the idea.