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- From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Lead Pricing
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:33:07 -0500
Martin,
A few impressions. Yes, I think it would look like you are trying to get rid of it. In addition, what I am striving for is an honest relationship with my customers - I ask what I think is a fair price - so that I can support myself and my passion of growing healthy food. Marketing in the manner you describe would not further that relationship. I think valuing our work and charging a price accordingly is part of this honest relationship. An example: a sister vendor and I have been selling next to each other for years. A few years ago, we talked about the price of cherry tomatoes. She sells her cherry tomatoes for the same price that I do usually - $1.50 a pint at the beginning of the season - to $1 later on when they are more plentiful. At one point in one season, she had a whole lot of them, and was going to sell them for 50 cents a pint. I argued that since they were the most labor intensive of all our tomatoes - lots of work picking them, then it did not make sense to cut the price in half. Even if she sold twice as much, she would make the same thing - and in the process would be devaluing herself and her labor, as well as mine. For a while she kept the price at the same rate, and is more apt to now as well. Jill |
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Lead pricing,
Marlin L Burkholder, 04/11/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Lead pricing, Mmneedham, 04/11/2001
- Lead Pricing, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 04/11/2001
- Re: Lead pricing, Del Williams, 04/12/2001
- Re: Lead pricing, jay gee, 04/12/2001
- Re: Lead pricing, Joan Vibert, 04/13/2001
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