The gunshop I worked at used to do that. We would pour 1 or 2 pounds of powder into white styrofoam cups, then staple the lids on. Mainly for shotshell powders, but some of the rifle IMR's also. It became too much of a hassle to do that. We never had any negative feed-back from anyone having any problems with it.
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Why not just buy the 8# jug? It's not going to go bad if you use reasonable care. I would want the original jug for not only the reasons mentioned, but also to keep light from the powder - light and heat are a powder's enemies
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Light IS the main enemy of powder, about equal to heat in the degrading category. I just remembered that there's now one gunshop that's still selling bulk powder. BUT he demands that you bring empty bottles EXACTLY the same as the powder you're buying. I heard that, went down with an empty 1# bottle of varget. He filled it, then put the lot# on a sticker on the bottle over to old lot #. Nothing wrong with that!