One possible benefit perhaps, but lets start small :-)
Not wanting to shoot your idea down but for this to work you would have to buy in bulk to think of saving any real money but then you have got think of other things like being a public limited comple plc not a limited company so people would be able to buy in to it because if people were to put money they would want a share then I cost to set up one of them type company's and the one killer is going postage its going at least 2 quid a tin of pellets so even if we were to buy a tin of £10 at price of £8 by buying them direct or 'chea