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Creating customer bonds with presence, abundance, and generosity

June 22, 2015 by Tom Roberts Categories
  • Best Practices
  • Merchandising
  • Pricing

Traditional retailing wisdom says it is of the utmost importance to give customers exactly what they pay for. Any less, and you are cheating the customer; any more and you are cheating yourself. Being rather non-traditionalist myself, allow me to offer an amended view. Many markets and farmers have a budget for what they refer […]

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Design your stand for your shoppers

August 22, 2012 by Tom Roberts Categories
  • Best Practices
  • Information
  • Merchandising

Physical barriers can be psychological barriers, too. The way you build your display space has an impact on how shoppers feel about it and about shopping with you. Some markets impose limitations on the amount of space a member may use, while other markets allow members to use whatever space they can fill. In either […]

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Featured Markets

Windham Farmers’ Market

Windham Farmers’ Market offers a day filled with fresh farmers’ meats, eggs, cheese, yogurt and harvest, bees wax and essentials products, local brewery beers, homemade sauces and jams and many unique crafters. All this and music courtesy of THE POND LILIES. These ladies could make anyone smile and tap their foot. Please check us out […]

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Portland Farmers’ Market – Deering Oaks

Summer Market: Shop directly from over 40 of Maine’s top farmers’ and food producers in one stop at beautiful Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine! We are open 7:00am-1:00pm Wednesday and Saturdays, May through November. SNAP, CREDIT, & DEBIT ACCEPTED at all of our markets! To Learn More, you can: 1) Read about how our […]

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Bangor Winter Farmers’ Market

Winter Market: Bangor Winter Farmers’ Market is staying at Abbott Square and is open the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month from 11:00am-1:00pm, December- early April EBT/SNAP and credit/debit accepted. See website for updates http://www.bangorfarmersmarket.org   Summer Market: Bangor Farmers’ Market is every Sunday,  last of April through November at Abbott Square in Bangor. […]

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