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Put it this way - if you bought your apples from the grocery store and sold them in your stall, it would probably sell just as well. It's the experience of goin
by jbob2000 9y ago
Put it this way - if you bought your apples from the grocery store and sold them in your stall, it would probably sell just as well. It's the experience of going to a market and buying from a stall that people like, NOT the produce.
- goialoq 9y agoIf that were true, than how is it even possible for a farmer to get a spot at the stall? Why aren't they crowded out by grocery arbitragers?
- Anderkent 9y agoBecause there's certainly skill involved in the successful managing of a stall. It's not that anyone could buy from the grocery store and sell at the stall and make a profit; just the people who successfully make profit on a small farm. The suggestion is that the customer knowledge/access is what is providing value, not the farming.
- cdubzzz 9y agoLast week a train broke down on the tracks between our house and the small produce market we usually go to. We didn’t want to wait, so we turned around and went to Giant (the large super market in our area). It had been a long time since we got produce there and it was absolutely terrible. I forgot how much better the local stuff we get is. Most of the time, I will only ever go in the morning because the place fills up in the afternoon and I generally dislike “the expiernce” of going there. All this to say, in our case, it absolutely is the produce.