The Stabroek Business’ coverage of the Sunday January 21 Farmers’ Market held at the Police Sports Club, Eve Leary in its Saturday January 27, 2024 issue addressed, mostly, the interaction between buyers and sellers in much the same manner as applies at Municipal Markets, never mind that in Farmers Markets consumer expectations focus, primarily, on ‘knock down’ prices. The ‘seasonally’ ‘taxing’ prices that currently obtain for fruit and vegetables made the Eve Leary event a ‘must go’ for consumers in the capital and its environs. There can be no mistaking the fact that cost-of-living considerations have enhanced the popularity of Market Days.
At the recent Eve Leary Market Day event, interaction between buyers and sellers centered round the possibility of forging bilateral relationships out of which would come ‘knock down prices’ as a reward for structured (regular) patronage. While there is always the issue of what (as we say in Guyana) is the ‘concern’ that the further popularization of the Farmers’ Markets might appear to be ‘short-changing’ the conventional market vendor, what the Stabroek Business has discerned is that conventional vendors do a fair bit of ‘doubling up’ on Farmers’ Market days. With increasing numbers of enterprising farmers becoming involved in Farmers’ Market Day events, the occasions have become fairly routinized. They also create a measure of ‘ease’ on consumers’ pockets that often consolidate pre-existing relationships.
