Price guide · Agriculture Garden
Rice: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $1.07 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.40 at volume, on a typical 21-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point, not a binding quote. Your spec and quantity set the final price.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $1.07 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.95 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.85 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.75 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.65 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.40 |
What moves the price
For rice, the drivers are blend recipe, cut format, organic status, pack size, private label print, cut size, caffeine free, bulk pack size — the spec them differently and the same item lands at either end of the band.
Published US-facing wholesale listings show white rice around $0.75/lb at WebstaurantStore, while USDA/FRED city-average retail is about $1.07/lb and USDA wholesale/AMS milled-rice quotes imply roughly $0.29-$0.42/lb for commodity lots. Realistic routes are restaurant-supply wholesalers for bagged retail-like product, or commodity/import distributors for pallet and truckload rice. Price moves mainly with rice type (white vs basmati/jasmine), origin, and whether you are buying branded bagged goods or bulk commodity grain; organic and specialty fragrant varieties push prices materially higher
Paying more than the median?
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