That was my first thought too. My understanding is that Nordic countries do think about vitamin D deficiency (especially this time of year) so it’s common to see stuff like cod liver oil and other ways to supplement vitamin D, besides just eating fish. Figured Switzerland would be similar.
Sounds like you’ve thought much of it through already. I’m not familiar with that type of product but am thinking if you already did the testing/whatnot to comply with whatever local and national regulations exist then you’re okay to start off. I think(?) you’ll want a resale certificate or similar for the state you’re in if you’re going to be dealing with b2b sales but could be mistaken (the buyers definitely want that).
I’m not a buyer but work at a small business that buys other types of product so I’ve seen this stuff play out. Quick notes
What should I roughly expect when I go to physical stores to sell my product to them? Do I simply walk in and ask for a manager?
You probably want to ask who’s in charge of evaluating and buying product. There might be someone there who’s job is actually to be the buyer for the store, otherwise it usually comes down to a manager or the owner(s).
Am I missing something in my preparation (physical or mental)? Are products generally on consignment to stores or are they bought outright?
Can’t speak for other stores but where I work if the buyer/owner likes the product they’ll commit to buying a few cases and see how it sells… after that you have to hope they’ll want to re-order at a future date. That’s when you check in with them and see how things are going, if they need more product, etc. More rarely if the buyer is really into the product they might actually buy a case or two during your initial sales meeting.
Should I bring enough stock to the first meeting or is it normal to drop off products on a separate/later date?
Most sales people seem to bring samples with them so they can leave them in the case the buyer isn’t around. Then they call/visit to follow up, maybe leave more samples, etc… I don’t know if that’s the best approach but it’s one way. The sale would work better if you actually get to meet the buyer but you can’t rely on knowing their schedule, setting up a meeting they might blow off, etc… The place I work at doesn’t have a buyer physically there 7 days a week so people popping in to sell tend to miss them and end up talking to a manager or whoever happens to be at the store that day.
And like the other comment said, be prepared to be told “No” a lot. You’re not the first or last person that’s been at the store selling creams/lotions, always keep that in mind.
Yes, QWERTY. But I’m just old enough to actually have typing class as an elective in high school, not sure if that’s still a thing in 2026. It was useful and being into tech I knew it was something I’d need to learn.
I’ll add that the keyboard you’re using is important for touch typing. Some keyboards don’t have good bumps/notches on the keys which makes it harder to do any real touch typing without looking down at the keyboard.
However I want the option to expand it as I find new music here and there.
With Jellyfin or other self hosted media player you’ll be able to add files as you like. I usually buy music in FLAC format from Bandcamp and Qobuz to add to my own library. That’s in addition to other music I ripped from CDs over the years.
but are there good options to “sync” the library to my phone other than just simply drag and drop the media?
Some Jellyfin apps have an offline mode (Finamp is one of them) so you can stream music online from your Jellyfin server or mark albums/songs to download within the app and then be able to play that music offline. I use it since I don’t have unlimited mobile data but still want to have some music on my phone for offline play. Not sure if that’s the best way but so far it works for my usage.
Some Anglosphere countries (USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia) love to add fluoride in water.
Not sure about the other countries you mentioned but wanted to note that not all cities in the United States add fluoride to their water systems. I’m in the U.S. in a city without fluoride water treatment, there are definitely others.
Do they put fluoride in your drinking water ?
No.
Are you happy with that?
Yes.
My understanding is that fluoride’s benefits are mainly as a topical treatment, meaning its best used as part of toothpaste or rinse.
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Eh I don’t know how often that is the case, depends on the building :P
At one point the roommates and I were living in a house in Williamsburg with the owner living upstairs above us. The owner bought the house a few years prior, apparently the original owner did all the electrical work himself. You could tell everything was wonky, most of the outlets weren’t grounded, many outlets were installed upside down, two bedrooms along with the kitchen and bathroom were on the same circuit so half the apartment would lose electricity whenever someone ran a hair dryer in one room along with the toaster in the kitchen. The building’s circuit breakers were downstairs in someone else’s basement apartment so we got to know our downstairs neighbor pretty well, haha.
I used to wonder how that house passed inspection or if NYC even does those type of inspections. Eventually the owner re-sold the house and we had to move so that was that. But I get the feeling there are tons of old houses in Brooklyn/Queens like that.
I pay attention to the condition/cleanliness of the hallways and stairs in the building. If the owner can’t be bothered to maintain any of that then you already know the apartment itself is going to be a mess as soon as something goes wrong.
A bit harder to judge but if it looks like other tenants/random people make a habit of hanging out in the hallways/stairwells then that’s a massive red flag. One time I went to see an apartment and a guy inside the building on one of the stair landings was chilling out smoking a massive cigar next to the window… I knew right away that building is always going to have cigar smoke.
This one might sound silly but I have a habit of testing the water in the bathroom and kitchen. That tells me what the water pressure is like as well has how well the hot water is working.
Maybe a bit nit picky but I usually bring a tape measure and do some quick room measurements to figure out if furniture is going to fit & whatnot.
Oh and like the other comment said it definitely helps if you know what the area and the building surroundings are like at night.
ex-US Bonds, stocks, and ETFs. For U.S. consumers those types of funds are still USD denominated but they’d be focused on investing in corporations and government entities outside the U.S. Plenty of index funds are set up that way already (for stocks VXUS is one of them, for example).
To be fair you could just use a different Lemmy instance. From what you said I have a feeling you were on the .ml instance which does have that type of moderation :/
Either way glad you’re still in the Fediverse even if it’s not a Lemmy instance :)
Yes, a lot of us left during the API exodus. Reddit was already going downhill anyway with all the bot spam and shills, that’s probably even worse there nowadays.
Once in a while I do bring up old.reddit to read through some communities that haven’t caught on here (yet), or maybe something that comes up in a google search, but that hasn’t been enough to make me want to log back in there let alone post/comment on anything.
Not something I use but did notice that https://www.pandora.com/ still has a free ad-supported tier.
I just saw them play last month when whey were on tour with Birthday Massacre. I mainly went to see Birthday Massacre which have more of a goth/synth/metal/pop sound if that makes any sense :P
But I have to say Lord of the Lost put on a great show and a lot of people there already knew their music and were into it.