[Market-farming] Undercutting prices
Pat Meadows
pat at meadows.pair.com
Thu Sep 23 08:54:52 EDT 2004
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 07:50:51 -0400, you wrote:
>One way to stop undercutting by hobby growers
>is to get your market board/manager to raise
>the vendor fees. If there is a $15 a space
>per market charge than you will see those 25¢
>a pound tomatoes go for more because at those
>prices the undercutters won't be making any
>money, it will all go towards paying off the
>daily fee.
That was my thought as well. And the money could be used to
advertise the market or to improve the facilities for all.
Whoops - you've said exactly this below.
At any rate, this is how I would handle it.
Our tiny local market has an opposite problem: a blatant
re-seller. He could afford the $10 or $15 charge.
I don't know why the market manager (who would like to kick
him out, she has told me this) does not have the authority
to get rid of him.
Pat
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