Ryan,
Iâ??m sure you are a good guy and mean no hard feelings by posting away in my little group buy. I take no offense I just find it a little odd. I hold no grudges with anyone on this board nor do I wish to. Let me put things into my perspective. I just wrote this little story and I am going to call it:
The tail of two fruit sellers:
By Shawn Nielsen
Letâ??s say that you and I work at different supermarkets. Letâ??s call my store #1 and I sell fruit. Your store is #2 and you sell fruit as well. I charge so much for the fruit I sell and a customer get "x" lbs of fruit for the price I charge. I know my fruit is good fruit and I stand behind my fruit. My fruit has kind of had this great reputation in town as being..well...great fruit. It may not be the cheapest fruit in town however it is fresh and taste very yummy. Now I am at my store selling my fruit to happy customers, even a little elevator'isk music coming from the ceiling speakers when a representative from store #2 pops up from out of a pile of apples and starts asking questions in front of my customers about pricing, freshness, almost trying to put doubt in my customers head about the yummy ness of my fruit. He has on his store #2 uniform and shows no real intention of buying my fruit as he sells his own and feels that his fruit is better. He is simply there to yell out to my customers if a label is out of place, if I am out of bags for customers to put fruit in, or if he does not agree with my pricing. Yet my fruit is organic and comes from the cool valleys of California where it is picked daily and flown in to insure freshness. So one day after I noticed store #2 handing out ads for his store in my banana section, I said â??hmmm, I wonder what I can do for my customers that have ignored this guy. I got it!!! I can offer them a coupon for there next visit!!â? I see this as a fair way to show appreciation to my past and future customers. Especially those who didnâ??t care what store #2 was trying to do.
And we all lived happily ever after.
The end
