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Posted by featherandfurrow (My Page) on Sat, Aug 25, 07 at 10:47
| Does anyone have a suggestion for people who constantly pinch the peaches! We end up with a few bags of seconds just because people manhandle the peaches so much. We actually had one family let their child put a peach on his mouth and then put it back! So far we have just stood there and not said anything. We are brand-new to the farm market thing(we have done three this year)and hate to say anything because we want to build our customer base. My inlaws who own the orchard but up signs saying "Today's pinch is tomorrow's bruise" but they don't really work either. Any ideas?
Oh, on the side--how do you figure out the weather? I was up at 4 o'clock this morning trying to decide if we should go to the market or not because of rain. We decided not to and now it is not raining!!!! Should we just plan on always going rain or shine? |
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RE: Pinchers!
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| Try people poking their fingers through the plastic into a peach pie, squeezing the sweet rolls, pulling all the husks off the sweet corn - then not buying anything! Honestly, I haven't figured out how to come across as a nice person with a firm business mind yet either. One idea that might work: keep the bulk of your peaches in the truck so people can see them, but not touch them. Then only put a few quart boxes out where they can touch, then sell them the peaches from the truck. I have had some, not much, success with putting out samples. NOTHING stop the kids, parents today have just let the TV raise their kids, instead of using loving discipline. The only kids I trust in my stall are the homeschoolers |
RE: Pinchers!
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| adjust your price to recover the loss and don't worry about it. |
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| I actually make a lot of sales because of the kids. They are attracted to a colorful display. I encourage them to take a cherry tomato (or purple bean or whatever) to taste. The kids LOVE being able to try these things and the parents LOVE the kids eating healthy foods, and therefore, more sales! You might distract the kids with a sample plate of peaches, cut up, under a plastic cover. Use the peaches that were bruised by the pinchers. |
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| Sell them by the container (Qt) etc . You will have a lot less dammage. Our peach vendor does this and reuses the baskets.I sell okra by the pint and quart and people always comment "how pretty mine is" I just smile and think (if you and everyone else had been picking thru it would look ugly and scratched up). Prepackaging definitly helps the handling issue. My problem is big heirloom tomatoes that are too big to put in these containers . I can tell where every finger has squeezed them... But you just charge more for them and know you will lose some to squeezers |
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