Retail This Year

[ejmaple]

my retail sales are $5 1/2 pint $10 pint 20 quart. i also don't bottle any larger than quarts for retail, but some for familly. i sell most of my syrup either on site at the sugar house or at the local farmers market. my prices are much lower than any other retail store around here that sells real syrup.

[backyardsugarer]

Robbery is a little silly especially since I can not keep my syrup on the shelf. Keep giving yours away if you wish but I work too hard to get any less.

Chris

[briduhunt]

My retail is $8.50 1/2 pint, $11 a pint and $18 for a quart. I know for a fact that I am high for my area but I did sell all but 1/2 gal of last years 30gal totals.
I did attend the Veronia Conference and I also attended the Conference at the Lethwotrth, NY High School. At both conference I attended seminars with different speakers and they both stated that as a whole industry we do not charge enough for our products. They also mentioned that once you set your prices you should only increase your prices once a year and not in big jumps.
I have come from a business background when I worked for a HVAC company when we started out as a young company we were the cheap guys and after some business looks at the books we saw that we were not making money and we were actually loosing money. So then and there we made the decision to increase our prices and not bwe the lowest price guys. We based our decisions on proffit and loss statements. At the present time the company is the highest priced company in the area and they are employing more then ever and are busy all the time.
People buy our products from us not because we make better syrup then everyone else, but because they like us and our product. I know that my syrup is not any better then anyone else's but my customers like me and they also know the amount of work it takes to produce syrup so it is a product that they do not have a problem with paying more for.

Some one stated that backyardsugarer was riping off his customers at #55/gal and that to me is wrong. My personell feeling is that he is not charging enough. He stated that he was thinking of holding last years prices and that I also think is wrong. He should raise is prices from last year prices as the cost of making the syrup is getting higher and he should not eat that. Remember our product is not a necessity product it is a luxary product and reseccion or not people who want our product are still going to purchase is even if we raise our prices a little bit.

Well that is just my thoughts and everone is entitled to theirs.

[JuniperHillSugar]

If I sell one gallon this year, it ought to cost about $3K.
Robbery is usually theft with a weapon involved.
Willing buyers will buy or walk away.

[lew]

Our prices are 47/gallon, 27/ 1/2 gal, 17/qt., 11/pt. These are our retail prices at the sugarhouse or at a farmers market. Our largest market that we wholesale 5 gallon containers to gets $5.85 / pound in their bulk section where the customer supplies their own container. That's $64.35 per gallon in their own container.

[Dill]

Last year was 20qt and 14 a pt. Probably be the same this year. I do give a break for 3 or 4 qts, but I don't bottle any bigger than a qt for sales.

Hannaford's (grocery chain) is down to 14 a qt, which a couple customers mentioned to me. But then again I only have 2 qts left after last year.

[SilverLeaf]

i sell most of my syrup either on site at the sugar house or at the local farmers market. my prices are much lower than any other retail store around here that sells real syrup.

The local retail environment is the same gauge that I used to set my prices for the local farmers market. I'm lower than everybody but the Wal-mart grocery (which I was surprised to find actually sells real Vermont syrup).

1/2 pt: $5
12 oz: $7
pint: $9

[ennismaple]

Fred,
If you think $55 a gal is high, I was in Vt the first of Dec. and in a small town north of Brattleboro, this gal in a restaurant I was in showed me a gal. she paid $85 for, and it was Vt syrup.It is not robbery if the customer gives you the money willingly.

In Eastern Ontario $55 for a 4L jug (slightly bigger than a USG) is low.

[Riverdale]

$45 /gal
$25/ 1/2 gal
$15/ qt
$8/pint

had to hide some in the back closet for christmas gifts or else they would've sold too!

[gator330]

I sell 1/2 pint jug for $6 and the pint jug for $12 any thing i did in glass was 250ml foil cap and card got $12 for every one of them. I'm buying syrup for my own use right now. Payed about the same as I charge. MOST MAKE MORE!!!!!