[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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