(Not to discount your obvious advantage of knowing the current market trends but...)
I would hesitate to predict the demise of these buckets.
I purchase the 160G buckets for the sole reason of getting the buckets. (I have never had issue with the contents)
I use them for other purposes after they are empty and really like the screw off lids. I can purchase them locally for $5 but no screw off lid.
I refill these buckets from the 200 gallon boxes of IO I purchase for $31.
Keeping the salt in these bags is a pain as they clump and adsorb moisture eventually becoming all but useless. So I dump the bags into the buckets.
The extra buckets are always useful around here albeit they are expensive initially (gotta have that screw-off lid)
I apologize if this makes me "Not serious, ill informed and ignorant" but I find value added in the empty buckets after the product is used up that came in them. (Who ever said the consumer was smart anyway)
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