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Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?
- From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 18:52:53 -0400
I think it may depend on the market. Our early morning start market (7:30 AM on Saturdays) allows early sales with no problems; there aren't that many customers who show up earlier than that, and those who do often are on their way to work and couldn't come at another time. And I've sold at an afternoon market that allowed early sales and had no problems with them; but I've also sold at a market that theoretically started at 10 in the morning, but customers would start showing up the moment the first vendor arrived (some of their windows overlooked the market site), with the result that a lot of them had come and gone by 10; so if you weren't set up ready for customers well before the theoretical start time, you lost a lot of sales. Maybe a compromise would be to say vendors can't start setting up before a given time -- if the market starts at 4, nobody can start setting up before 3 or 3:30? It takes some people a lot longer to set up than others, so that wouldn't solve it entirely; but it would keep people from showing up way ahead of time in order to get all the early customers. -- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think but maybe not this year Fresh-market organic produce, small scale On Apr 6, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Richard Moyer wrote:
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[Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?,
Richard Moyer, 04/06/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?, Road's End Farm, 04/06/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?, Sue Wells, 04/06/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?, garlicgrower, 04/06/2014
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Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?,
clearviewfarm, 04/06/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?, Sue Wells, 04/06/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?, Roots Farm, 04/07/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?, clearviewfarm, 04/06/2014
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Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?,
clearviewfarm, 04/06/2014
- Re: [Market-farming] Firm Market Start Times? Pros and Cons?, Richard Stewart, 04/06/2014
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