CannaReview
Well-Known Member
Well seems we are having a battle of the wholesale giants with Sunlight Supply and Hydrofarm. Sunlight Supply set up shop some mnths ago in Surrey and now I hear Hydrofarm bought out a wholesale part of another Canadian food manufacturer.
Not sure what to think about this as from what I heard through the grape vine Sunlight has already used their size and caused the price of Gavita to go up some moths ago ($60). Apparently they were paying in US funds for Gavita so with the exchange rate their cost was much higher than the only Canadian distributor so there some buddy buddy thing between Gavita/Sunlight and Gavita raised the Canadian whole price. The price now has dropped back from the Canadian wholesale lobbying Gavita but still lost a couple orders I had from having to tell guys the ballast they bought a few days ago are now $60 more expensive for the new ones they ordered.
Then I hear some stores where selling GH 3 part sets cheaper/same price as the main local wholesalers and apparently GH didn't want to do anything about it. So I guess Sunlight like to have it both ways.
Whether this is good for prices here I don't know, it is a bit faster to get Hydrofarm stuff here now as some of the wholesalers that were bringing in Sunlight stuff have now dropped them and they're all supporting Hydrofarm. I'm all for cheaper prices but not when there's collusion from certain wholesale companies and manufacturers that hurts one that have been here for 20+ years.
Not sure what to think about this as from what I heard through the grape vine Sunlight has already used their size and caused the price of Gavita to go up some moths ago ($60). Apparently they were paying in US funds for Gavita so with the exchange rate their cost was much higher than the only Canadian distributor so there some buddy buddy thing between Gavita/Sunlight and Gavita raised the Canadian whole price. The price now has dropped back from the Canadian wholesale lobbying Gavita but still lost a couple orders I had from having to tell guys the ballast they bought a few days ago are now $60 more expensive for the new ones they ordered.
Then I hear some stores where selling GH 3 part sets cheaper/same price as the main local wholesalers and apparently GH didn't want to do anything about it. So I guess Sunlight like to have it both ways.
Whether this is good for prices here I don't know, it is a bit faster to get Hydrofarm stuff here now as some of the wholesalers that were bringing in Sunlight stuff have now dropped them and they're all supporting Hydrofarm. I'm all for cheaper prices but not when there's collusion from certain wholesale companies and manufacturers that hurts one that have been here for 20+ years.
