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farmers  market

the original point i was trying to make was i think the marketis overpriced.contrary to what some of you may be thinking,this is not a conspiracy to try to stop the market, but  to make it more affordable for everybody in brentford instead of the lardy dah few.this is only my opinion.              i own a barbour as well.

Richard John Francis ● 7397d2 Comments

I have repeated your original posting."what is it about the farmers market that makes  the people in Brentford buy overpriced goods from there. is it the fact they can walk around in their Barbour jackets and green wellies and tell everybody how much better the food tastes. rubbish. what its all about is people coming up from the country and giving the townies a good fleecing. i reckon they have a good laugh on their drive home not believing how much they can charge in Brentford. If you go to a market out of town the foods  half the price, so who s kidding who here."This is an interesting perspective - if you can't get your own way - start the same thread again!  ...  ?  What – ho!  Paving slabs – here I come?  ;-)      We can handle it chaps, NOTHING phases the forum!Richard, I personally thought that we had answered most of your points and additionally I think that Bernadette’s posting is spot on.I do think that you touch on another subject though, which isn't about markets, but is actually about cost of living in the London area?The London area does appear much more expensive than 'out-of-town'.  On trips above Watford Gap we have found supermarket chains selling goods a few pence cheaper ...?  I bought some stationary in WHSmith in Staines, took them back unopened to Kingston and watched the assistant slap on another .50p on the price to go back on the shelf, saying it was a London price zone!Wouldn’t it be nice to have the same thing happen to salaries and pensions?  Wouldn’t it be nice to have our political reps campaigning for an equivalent reduction in rates etc, on our behalf?I fear that rather than winning a reduction in London prices, what we would achieve if trying to fight this one, would be London price zoning expanding somewhat like congestion charging, to cover the whole Country?  And in view of the comments about St George and now St David, by ‘whole Country’ I am very 'integrated' and 'inclusive' minded in this, and mean, Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland and The Isles of Wight and Harris too!    ;-)

Sarah Felstead ● 7397d

If what you are buying is fresh and either free range or oganic (which is what I personally always try to buy) and is not pumped full of water and additives it is always going to be more expensive than the stuff that is less fresh not free range and pumped full of God knows what (isn't there yet another food scare at the moment).  Look at the prices of organic chickens in Tesco (usually averaging at about £8) as I said on an earlier posting I bought 3 from a stall at the famers market for £10!  Definitely not overpriced.Maybe I am a food snob but I would rather pay more for decent food than poison myself with some of the garbage that passes for meat in supermarkets.  There used to be at least 4 butchers in Brentford that I can think of all are now gone as a result of being frozen out by the supermarkets.  There are no proper bakers in Brentford (I don't consider Greggs to be one)I can't think of a greengrocer (except the dried up dead stuff available in some of the "convenience" shops therefore it seems to me that once a month to be able to buy fresh un-mucked about with food, it is worth the cost.  That said, I would agree that some - definitely not all - of the goods on sale are more expensive than they deserve to be bearing in mind that the producers have cut out the middle man and as I said in my previous posting, although it's a matter of taste, some of the goods I have bought I have thrown straight in the bin i.e. the meat pie.  Therefore I won't be buying any more of them.All in all I think it is a great idea to have the market although I would prefer if it were larger with more variety and perhaps more competition and I would also prefer it to be near the Butts.

Bernadette Paul ● 7397d