On Jun 24, 12:36*am, "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.

Taste a farmers' market tomato. Taste a supermarket tomato. THAT'S
why.
Lynn in Fargo