Busy farmers markets in Arizona boosting sales for small businesses

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – The summer season is often when fewer individuals cease into farmers markets across the Valley. Nonetheless, one Phoenix salsa store proprietor says not this yr.

“Most of our merchandise are at farmers markets,” stated Los Muertos Salsa proprietor Anthony Perez. “They’re busier than they normally have been in the summertime. I feel the pandemic has one thing to do with that. Lots of people found farmers markets you already know, ‘trigger you couldn’t get something on the retailer.”

It is a big enhance for Perez. He began delivering his chips and salsa throughout the pandemic. Deliveries helped keep enterprise when individuals had been staying house. However when fuel costs started hovering in March, he determined to cease deliveries.

Perez says it wasn’t price it due to the price of fuel. He needed to make the decision to cease sending out the van, however he was apprehensive about how that would influence his backside line. “It didn’t influence us as a lot as I believed it might. We have now lots of assist fortunately so that’s superior,” he stated.

Perez stated extra individuals are coming to his storefront to select up gadgets. However farmers markets are conserving his enterprise going proper now. On the weekends, Perez sells his merchandise at a number of markets round Arizona. They’re the principle motive he hasn’t taken successful since canceling deliveries. Individuals will wait in line to purchase his totally different salsa flavors. Perez says some individuals drive from all around the state to purchase them.

You’ll be able to decide it up at their store in Phoenix at 1609 Bell Highway. You may as well catch them at farmers markets across the Valley and state on Saturdays and Sundays. For extra data, click on/faucet right here.

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