Got products to share via Good Groceries?
Good Groceries LLC is dedicated to making human-scale agriculture and entrepreneurship a living-wage enterprise: Up to 80% of the retail price of a product goes straight to you. If you have products you’d like to sell, please fill out the vendor application form.
Certifications
Good Groceries does not require organic or GAP certification, but we value their tenets. GG is legally bound to require USDA processing of meat, state egg-handling licensure, and value-added processing in licensed commercial kitchens. GG is unable to sell custom-exempt processed meat (except certain species) or products created under Oregon's "cottage industry" laws.
Pricing 101
If you are transitioning to wholesale after having sold at a farmers market or other direct-to-consumer venue, you may realize you've undervalued your product. Put simply, a retail (customer) price needs to cover two jobs:
Growing/making product
Selling/distributing product
With direct sales you are doing both jobs and need to price accordingly. Charging your customers less for your products than it costs to make and distribute them is doing yourself a disservice. If you are growing food for fun, in a backyard garden, as a retirement project, etc. and undercharge as a “public service” you’re actually hurting other farmers who are trying to raise their families and pay their bills.
Questions? Please get in touch!