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From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net
[mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] On Behalf Of Mark Helen
Angermayer
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 1:39 PM
To: Apple-crop discussion list
Subject: Re: [apple-crop] theft deterrence
Thank you Alan,
I used to have
My two cents...
I eat apples while I'm picking them.
Why? Because I want to know what tastes good this year.
I remember going to an orchard one year and found the Jonagolds to be
outstanding. I bought all I could carry out of the orchard.
The next year... the Jonagolds were tasteless. None
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)
list; Mark Helen Angermayer
Subject: Re: [apple-crop] theft deterrence
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
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
to bird droppings.
Claude Jolicoeur
De : apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net
[mailto:apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net] De la part de Hugh Thomas
Envoyé : 6 octobre 2014 15:04
À : Apple-crop discussion list
Objet : Re: [apple-crop] theft deterrence
Put up a sign that says the customer must
