On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:18:48 +1200, Miche >
shouted from the highest rooftop:

>In article
>,
> "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.
>
>You're going to the wrong farmer's markets.
>
>My local one is as cheap or (usually) cheaper than supermarkets, and the
>produce is much better.

Same here. And not only cheaper, but far better quality and choice.

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