I agree. Sadly, I think it's poorly implemented right now.

I'd have to find the news article about it, but I'm pretty sure this program exists already. I think an external study on the program shows that the Northwest Company is pocketing something like 60% of the subsidy for Northern grocers and only passing on 40% of the value to lower consumer prices. I saw this article perhaps 6 months ago? Let me go looking.

E: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rising-food-prices-canada-north-1.7122481

From this article, I got the numbers backward: 60% goes to consumers but 40% goes missing.

It's hard to organize bulk shipping in normal locations. It's absolutely a dumpster fire in some of these northern communities. The one I lived in, the bulk shipping guy was notoriously unreliable. You just can't risk it sometimes, especially when it comes to anything of value or that has a shelf life. Buddy goes on a two week long bender in Edmonton on the way and meanwhile you and half the community are absolutely fucked waiting for whatever you are getting. Amazon meanwhile wants to charge you twice what the price is for the item to ship it, because Canada Post absolutely bends them over too. And they are pretty unreliable as well. It gets there when it gets there. Might be two days, might be two months. It's not always an easy problem to solve, even with bulk orders.