投稿の詳細: ふるさとフェア東京ー終了

Home Coutry Fair in Tokyo

昨夜遅く東京都板橋区
大山商店街での2日間にわたる
ふるさとフェアを
終えて帰って来ました。
ご来場いただいた方々
ありがとうございました。

特にわざわざ私の顔を見るため、
私のワインを買うために来て頂いた
方々感謝致します。また
初めて試飲してお買い上げ頂いた
お客様ありがとうございました。

「東京でも一番物価が安いのよ」
とお客さんが言う通り、また不況と
あいにくの雨の為に客足が延びず
物販は大苦戦でした。

私も野菜や果物の販売がメインに
なりました。それでも価格破壊を
不当に助長することなく、
良いものを適正な
値段で買って頂けた事は、
生産者の立場からも嬉しいことでした。

興味深かったのは
長年この場所で多くのイベントを見ている
方から「行政がやるのと生産者が来るの
とでは、熱意や取組が全く違う」
という言葉を聞いたこと、
ここでのイベントを契機に板橋区6万人分の
学校給食に食材を提供し始めている
自治体が出始めていること、
買い物客は産地直送
の新鮮で美味しいものということを
わかっているので、近所の店の値段は
あまり関係ない、
というお話を聞いたこと
等でした。

な～るほど。

I came back to Suzaka late last night
after finishing the Fair at Happy Road
Oyama Shopping Arcade in Itabashi, Tokyo.
Thank you very much for your visiting us
at the event.

Especially I appreciate those who
came to see me and buy my wines. Also
I thank you for those who tasted my wines
there and bought at the venue.

As a shopper told me that this was the
cheapest shopping area in Tokyo, it was not
easy at all to have those shoppers buy our
goods especially under the resession and
under the rainy weather.

As such my role was rather to sell veges and fruit
than sell wines most of the time. However, it was
a pleasure to have many customer who bought our goods
at moderate prices without unreasonably lowering
them.

It was interesting to have heard from
a veteran who have seen many events at
the same place that;
1) attitude and enthusiasm of vendors
are totally different in case they
were from City Hall or they were real
producers,
2) there are a few cities that became successful
in selling their products to the school lunch for
60,000 students in Itabashi ward,
3) the shoppers understand well about the
freshness and the quality of the products
from the country side and would buy them
even though similar products were sold
at lower price at nearby shops,
etc.

That sounds indicative.