Originally Posted by
Parker
????? If im selling to a restraunt for $50 a gallon and they go on craigslist and see they can buy syrup for $40 a gallon they call me befor the next delivery and say you need to macth the lower price,,,,i think the price has just been driven down.....oversupply drives the price down..(with oversupply and lower bulk prices now more producers are botteling and selling their syrup to consumers,,more syrup on the retail market means more compitition and lower prices.."race to the bottom") ..the restraunt goes thru 2 gallons a week...they are not charging less for the syrup, they are making more money the consumption remains the same.
To solve the problem we need to expand the market beyond what it is now. A fraction of the population consumes syrup,,,imho,,,,the answer is to create more demand,,,not slice your neighbors bag,,,,,i.e. undercutting price......
The packers are not going to want to invest in expanding a market they dont own because it wont directly bennift them...cant blame them,,they are in biz to make all they can,,,,,who would bennifit from more demand? The producer....all of us
So who has to expand demand,,,well,, we can see how great a job the current powers that be are doing...so i would geuss it would be in our best interest to figure it out ourselves.....and what would be a better place to do that than a great fourm like this...
So blissville,,,,how are we going to grow the worldwide market? Why would you want to sell for less when there is a whole world of consumers out there?