This is where my future will be

[Krank88]

We had a salvage food store here before hurricane Katrina. I think they lost their lease. They had salvage frozen steaks, roast, seafood, canned goods, even bread at very significant savings. People could stretch their food bill considerably. Low overhead and good location are a must for this type of business, but you already knew that. I wouldn't be surprised to see more of these popping up in days to come.

[1Gary]

Yeah-the one thing I can hope for is the economy to get worse.A market operator reminded me that is when they are the busiest.I won't handle frozen goods or farm goods through.This is a link to one of the markets I will sell at in the summer circuit.It is one of three.The thing is just gorgeous with a lobby that is very much like a 5 star hotel.

http://www.hartvillemarketplace.com/index

It is where I consider it a hub being the RV and larger 12' dual wheel trailer will be parked all the time and the single date markets I would travel to in Ole Yellar and a vendor trailer selling snack foods which are not salvage snack foods.The cool thing about the vendor trailer and the snack foods is can be set up for a number of types of events.From a street vendor to high school sporting events to fireman's picnics to name afew.One thing we have looked at is bulk main ingredients so you can mix up your own trail mix at a decent price per pound.I know some of the older members here have seen the vendor trailer,but for those new guys here is some pixs of it:

This is a photo shop of it in somewhat the matching color to Ole Yellar and without graphics matching the van.



I designed and built it for a fast easy set up.Yeah I am not getting any younger.Both sides open with hydro cylinders so the selling walls have snack foods on one side prepackaged food hanging off spring hooks and the other side has bulk snack food containers.The sides have clear tarp side walls leaving a opening towards the back for shoppers to get into:



The main hub set-up with the RV and 12' trailer is harder to set and takes acouple of hrs to do.It is a 10 x 20 vendor tent and every kind of display know to vendors.That is why it stays put at one location selling multi days of the week.

The guys who have been on this site will tell you I have been working slowly for YRS on these projects and they are right about that.I shut down this business mainly because I was spending money in motels and the set-ups at that time where killing me.I knew/know how to be smart about that and these things I am putting together are to correct that.