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🏷️ Pricing Honey for Profit: Packaging Costs and Market Strategy

A live 3D price-stack model showing how honey cost, packaging and target margin build a retail price, and how a wholesale trade discount eats into that margin per jar.

Economics & Social Systems3DAdvanced60 FPS

Two jar-shaped 3D price stacks build the same cost bands — honey, packaging, labour — then show how a target margin sets a retail price on one, and a wholesale trade discount squeezes that same jar's profit on the other.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Cost bands are identical for both channels because production cost doesn't change with the buyer. Retail price is set to hit your target margin; wholesale price applies a trade discount to that price, so the green profit band shrinks — and can flip to a red loss band if the discount outpaces the margin you built in.

🎮 How to Use

Pick a jar size to load starting costs, then adjust honey and packaging cost, target margin, and wholesale trade discount. Watch both price towers and the live profit-per-jar stats respond instantly.

💡 Did You Know?

Many small producers price only for retail, then discover their wholesale price — after a standard 30–50% trade discount — barely covers the jar and lid. Building the discount into your pricing from day one avoids an awkward rebrand later.

⚙ Under the hood

A live 3D price-stack model showing how honey cost, packaging and target margin build a retail price, and how a wholesale trade discount eats into that margin per jar.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install