Example of pricing…. At the farmers market where I (as a child) helped my grandmother sell veggies, where I sold peaches decades later….
The old market was a shed under an overpass. Farmers backed their trucks up to the shed. We sold right off the tailgate. I paid $25 each year to sell.
The city built a multi-million dollar facility with entertainment venues (tore down the shed). They called it the “The River Walk”. Dozens of little shops sell over priced goat milk soaps, do-dads and do-hickies. But to sell peaches… I have to pay for parking, $20 per day, I had to unload my truck, move everything inside a building. I paid $50 a day to rent a table in the building. I paid $10 to rent a special approved cart just to haul my entire load of peaches to my table. Regular carts weren’t allowed.
So I was out $80 before I sold a single peach. Say it was a light day, I only had 20 baskets of peaches to sell. At $12 a basket that’s $240… minus $80 to the market. Basically a 30% sales tax, it’s a no win for most growers...
They've killed all of the old farmers markets in my area, every community used to have one... no more.