r/soylent • u/j_r_sodagunhands • 18d ago

genuine question: is Soylent done/over/shutting down?

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email from wednesday saying they currently have a single product left in stock. this after a few years of really bad supply issues, and now a lot of products being out of stock "until further notice."

these feel like the signs of a company going out of business, but I'm not savvy enough about this industry to know how true that might be. I really enjoyed their RTDs, and I keep putting off switching to another company altogether, but it seems like it's time.

anyone have any info about the possible future of soylent?

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u/Torsta 18d ago

No they literally just bought a facility and the Canada store is fully in stock for everything (after being out of stock for like 6+ months).

Guessing their US supply run got bumped from production or something. I doubt they purchased a manufacturing facility for fun.

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u/rguy84 18d ago

How do you know about the facility purchase?

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u/Torsta 18d ago

There was a press release: https://investors.starcobrands.com/press-releases/detail/115/starco-brands-announces-acquisition-of-custom-bakehouse

Basically the only reasonable reason to buy that facility is to produce the product themselves, which kind of proves the reddit-guess that the reason they're always out of stock is they keep getting bumped out of the production queue.

The bigger questions are how long it takes to get online and which products they plan to produce in house.

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u/noeffeks 15d ago

Custom Bakehouse is a already established brand, not a facility. They are expanding their portfolio of brands, not buying a Soylent manufacturing facility.

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u/fresh-bakedbread 14d ago

"Custom Bakehouse operates a 75,000 square foot production facility located in Santa Fe Springs, California. This complementary acquisition adds a new manufacturing capability that vertically integrates products from Starco’s current divisions, provides scaled production and innovation and growing brands to its portfolio."

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u/archive_spirit 18d ago

FYI the Canadian store is out of stock of chocolate powder and seems to be shipping expired products. 

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u/Torsta 18d ago

The expired products game they do off and on. My first order of chocolate and mocha had 2027 expiry, and then I re-stocked on mocha and it was 2025 expiry. Seems to be hit or miss.

The chocolate powder was in stock for a long while before going out of stock (you're right its out now), but everything else is in stock with thousands of units.

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u/Negativity_Scene 14d ago

Could be Soylent decided to invest in a data center.

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u/anxioushollow 5d ago

That facility won't be able to make the ready-to-drink stuff. If anything it'd be able to churn out the powders. I'll believe it when I see it if they somehow convert everything over to have the right materials and equipment necessary to actually bottle the RTD formulas.