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joseph · May 5, 2015

The problem with comparing to grocery store prices, is that even though the produce might be the same species, in many cases it is not the same product. Take strawberries for example: During my strawberry season, grocery store prices are $2 per quart, but I sell strawberries for $4 per pint. That's 4 times the grocery store price. But it's a different product. I pick mine dead ripe on the morning of the market. They have to be eaten the same day. To use the cliche: My strawberries don't taste like cardboard.

But there are other products like storage onions which are approximately the same whether I grow them or they come from the store. For those items I rarely get even grocery store prices for them. I gotta move my product in a few hours. They have days to move theirs.

May 5, 2015	#10
joseph Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Cache Valley, N/E of The Great Salt Lake Posts: 1,244	The problem with comparing to grocery store prices, is that even though the produce might be the same species, in many cases it is not the same product. Take strawberries for example: During my strawberry season, grocery store prices are $2 per quart, but I sell strawberries for $4 per pint. That's 4 times the grocery store price. But it's a different product. I pick mine dead ripe on the morning of the market. They have to be eaten the same day. To use the cliche: My strawberries don't taste like cardboard. But there are other products like storage onions which are approximately the same whether I grow them or they come from the store. For those items I rarely get even grocery store prices for them. I gotta move my product in a few hours. They have days to move theirs. Last edited by joseph; May 5, 2015 at 01:24 PM.