Had a vendor drop the ball on me at the Amarillo Farmer's Market last weekend

Honestly, I've been selling my homemade salsa at the Amarillo Farmer's Market for about two years now, and I always used the same guy for my jar labels. Last Saturday morning, I show up to set up my booth and realize he never delivered my new batch of labels for the seasonal batch I'd been prepping all week. I had to scramble and hand-write labels with a sharpie right there in the parking lot, which looked super unprofessional next to all the polished stalls around me. It cost me about $150 in lost sales because people kept passing by thinking I was just a hobby table, not a real business. I've already switched to a different printer in town, but I'm wondering if anyone else has had a supplier just not show or deliver on a market day. How do you guys handle backups for things like packaging or signage when your regular source flops?

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coran6311d ago

Did you ever try calling him the night before to double check? I learned the hard way too with my baked goods. Now I always keep a spare set of blank labels and a label maker in my trunk. It's not pretty but it saves my butt when someone flakes.

walker.hayden11d ago

My buddy showed up to a market with no price tags once. Total chaos.