We try out the Thursday Plymouth Farmers Market
Thursday, June 14th, 2012We’ve been at our Framingham Farmers Market location every Thursday for 5 years now and have collected a ton rabid kettle corn fans. Because I’ve moved to the Buzzards Bay area, that location is now almost an hour and a half away. The cruel irony here is I stopped going to my corporate job in Boston to do kettle corn full time. That drive was an hour and a half, each way and every day, in rush hour traffic. The plan is to find closer farmers markets to my area just so I can have a little sanity.
Dan tracked down the Plymouth farmers market, which unfortunately happens every Thursday. Plymouth is an easy drive from me and is a very big tourist town. Dan was all torqued up, because this Thursday market had a descent amount of vendors and would shave his commute down too. The location is very pretty, it’s right on the water as you can see in the video. I pointed out that we had a huge, loyal customer base in Framingham and it would take a very long time to replicate that in a brand new location. Dan was adamant that we try out a new spot.
So we took a crack at it and played hooky at our Framingham location. Boy did we screw ourselves. We did pretty good business on our first day of the season at Framingham last week. This week we made 60 dollars a piece in Plymouth. There basically was no traffic in Plymouth this time of the year. To make matters worse, some nit wit from ANOTHER Plymouth farmers market was papering the cars in the parking lot for THEIR market on that day! Even though there isn’t a huge stream of people at our Framingham location and fewer vendors, many people show up just for the kettle corn. They come looking for us. We’ve also noticed that our loyal fans will buy one or two large bags, verses new customers will stick to the smaller bag – until they’ve become addicted. I guess I’m stuck with my typical commute for now!
