Why are farmers markets expensive?
Mr. Nonsense > wrote:
>Why are farmers market always more expensive than the grocery store?
>I'm sure there must be good reasons for this. But I can think of three
>reasons why they should be cheaper:
>
>1. They have no expensive advertising and marketing costs
>
>2. They have no nationwide distribution costs, most of it is local.
>
>3. They have no high overhead that is typical of large corporations.
>In other words they are not paying fat salaries/benefits to people to
>do monkey work.
>
>I could see they suffer from one disadvantage, no benefit from
>economies of scale. I think the key points listed above should more
>than make up for that.
Market pricing, dude.
S.
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