A Quick Message for Large Retail Chain Store Buyers
Although this website promotes many alternative sales methods to traditional supermarkets, it's only because many small producers cannot afford the fees and margins many distributors and retailers routinely charge these small businesses.
The best thing any large distributor or retailer could do to help themselves, not to mention helping the creators of artisan New England products grow their businesses creating many new jobs, is to have a more affordable, reasonable pricing structure for small businesses.
At present, small producers cannot come close to affording the same margins and pricing structure billion dollar corporations pay, since making healthy, artisan products in small batches results in unit costs higher than the retail pricrs of mass produced items.
Think about it. You have the power to create new jobs and make your local economy grow!! Why not try it?!