A few U-Pick customers are so brazen about their theft that they eat berries
and apples freely in front of me while coming out of the field toward the
register. I also see them positively gorging in the field, as if this were
an AUCE establishment (we charge by the picked pound). I am also
This is a crime in some states. Find out about your state/local laws and
inform your customers that you will enforce this law. I don't think this
will drive away any customers, at least the kind you want to keep.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Steven Bibula sbib...@maine.rr.com wrote:
A few
I'd like to reply as an apple consumer, and as someone who ate a lot of fruit
in u-pick orchards as a kid, and as someone who thinks of herself as an honest
person.
If your customers are eating fruit as they talk to you, they don't think they
are stealing. And perhaps you shouldn't think they
Great Sign. Yes we say one apple and 5 raspberries each. I am more annoyed
with uncontrolled children. I am clear with parents that I expect them to stay
with their children and manage their behavior.
Thanks, Brien
Brien Davis
Hope Orchards
434 Camden Road
Hope, Maine 04847
(207)
Let me give you our upick cherry experience.
We use to charge one by the pound price. Then we started charging a higher
price for less than 10 pounds in hopes of driving those people away. They kept
coming and paid the higher price which we have raised every year. Now we have
a 4 tier price
Thank you Alan,
I used to have a successful pig operation, and always wanted my
product to be a good value for the customer, as well as myself (i.e.
win/win) and tried to approach that w/ my fruit business. I've met
some fruit growers who have been abused so much by some customers,
they view
And how about making this a “All you can eat” - and charge accordingly.
I don’t think anyone would eat more than a pound of apples during their
picking. And in average, it would probably be less than a pound.
Hence just charge for 1 extra pound of apples per person, making it clear they
can eat
