Market Farming

["Patrick Mulkey" <Mulkey AT tunl.duke.edu>]

Just a reminder to others out there do not put in your rules any price structure requirements. For example that prices for produce have to be within 25% of each other. A couple of years ago the NC State Attorney Office did a little survey of area farmers markets. The market in Hillsborough, NC and another were charged with unfair pricing. They had to revise their rules and stop forcing vendors to maintain a certain price guideline.

We at the Carrboro Farmers Market do not have any kind of pricing rules. I will walk around the market to survey the price on items I have to sell as well as to what is available. By checking what is available I can direct customers to a location for an item I do not have. They may not buy from me then but will likely return at a future date to purchase something else. 

 

Patrick Mulkey

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From: Pat Rupiper

To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:26 PM

Subject: [Market-farming] Occasional Market sales

 One of the things that the officers try to impress on the new sellers is that all the prices be in the same ball park. I might get $0.25 more because it is chemical free than someone else, but never $1.00.

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