Epic Fail for a certain farmers’ market. Parking? Forget about it… there’s rarely any and you end up driving around and around while trying not to flatten people who are jaywalking and bicycles riding on sidewalks not paying attention. Vendors? Severely overpriced! $6/lb for green peppers? $11/lb for lobster? Everything is overpriced, sometimes double to triple what you can purchase it for elsewhere. Tip to the vendors: if you want to sell your wares, pay attention to the customers and not your blackberry/texting. Keeping the doors open to the “Garbage/Compost Room” and having the aroma of rotting trash spreading among the vendors unlucky enough to be nearby is repulsive. The shoppers: pushy, and way too many massive strollers being pushed by unruly parents. Arts and crafts? Talk about the gathering of the artsy fartsy “save the earth” granolas. The majority of the stuff these people sell isn’t worth the price tag. The website and the individual vendor blurbs for the market are plagued with grammatical and punctuation errors (all by the vendors), and “AB” is not the province you are from if your farm is in Berwick, Annapolis, or Hants County. Sorry, but the 6 of us that decided to try out the market this weekend have all voted never to return. —Spending Our Money Elsewhere
This article appears in Sep 15-21, 2011.
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The market has sooo many bigger problems than those ones. That whole area is soon going to be made into a mall type place by the port authority. Fred Kilcupp is a fucking tool.
Really?
The “Dickheads Who Generalize About People In Order To Make Themselves Feel Superior Club” is up to *7* people now?!
Wowzers!
Seems to be the way of the world with these types of places. The ones in downtown Dartmouth are bad enough for crowds and high prices. Does not seem to be much reason to venture to the Pier area in Halifax to see strollers and hipsters.
Let’s break this laundry list down:
1. Parking is scarce because it’s a popular place to go
2. jaywalking on sidewalks? Driving: ur doin it wrong.
3. yes. Vendors who text instead of peddle are sort of annoying. But they’re not a professional business. They’re selling stuff you can’t get anywhere else. On earth. So get over it.
4. massive strollers pushed around by unruly parents. Yeah. it’s called “taking your children outside the house” and if your goal is to avoid children in public, may i suggest you not go out in public until after 9?
5. The whole “i can’t believe artists are artists” sentence didn’t even make sense. Who are you expecting to see peddling arts and crafts at this place, Ansel Addams?
6. You seem to have trouble differentiating between the space that is set up for individuals to sell their shit and the individuals selling their shit. The market itself doesn’t have a pricing structure on the things sold there. The vendors do. (or, in a shorter sentence, you’re sort of dumb)
Look, this entire rant can be summed up in one sentence.
“Doesn’t cater to students”
I think i’ll go saturday, now that i think about it.
Parking? Try Dartmouth…
OB, don’t waste your time. Stick to the supermarkets where prices are reasonable, unless you’re looking for organic, gluten free, sugar free, wheat free, flavor free, cardboard-like food. As for the strollers and pushy people, you have two elbows, use them.
Dave’s fruit stand on main street in Dartmouth is supposed to be better and cheaper than the grocery stores. I keep meaning to check it out.
I do wish that people with small children would either strap them on or use smaller less bulky strollers. Ive had kids and I didn’t use them as a battering ram to push my way through the crowd.
tommy: they were selling strawberries a dollar fifty cheaper than the stores and you can get farm eggs by the flat. Right next to the cheap bread store, too.
actually tommy, they are cheaper, just like the gateway meat store, just down the road. and just about everything there in both places is local stuff. i always go to get my meat and veggies the. have been since about 6 years ago. and the deer apples are some of the best for price, in n.s. too.yeah man, check out both of them, maybe i’ll see you there sometime.i always wear a camo cap, with tanks a lot on it, it was a mistake in the print shop, and was a gift from a buddy.
meat monger was my go to guy until he started selling other people’s beef as his own, and his cuts became as grissley as supersobeys. found a new source so all is well. the market is really just for bags looking for nicnaks to give their stepkids presents at christmas, really.
The arts and crafts at the market aren’t made in sweatshops or by machines therefore the prices are higher.
The vegetables and other food come from fairly paid workers as well.
If you’re used to buying things at Walmart and the Superstore then yes, it is overpriced.
Epic Fail for running into people you didn’t intend to see, either!
(Turns head, pokes….)
I agree. I want to make more/better use of the Market, but it really doesn’t save me any money by doing so.
It is also especially fun when you pick up a piece of produce and find “Grown in the USA” stickers on it. Thinking maybe it was a fluke you pick up a few more pieces of the same to find the same sticker. Ummm….fail? Yes, I think so.
Fresh produce in the middle of February is usually a dead giveaway. The free range grass fed beef and porc are worth the trip, just make sure you stick to the smaller farms (see my above post) and do cost more but are worth it. Roselane Farms has some awesome selections. I used to get zucchini bread from the Mennonites but since they switch from the old to new market I haven’t seen them. I limit my trips to once a month or less and stock up, usually get my produce from the superstore around the corner.