Yep, I agree with you. I never mind paying a bit more to get a quality product and to support locals. I don't generally penny pinch with buying good food. I wouldn't buy Skippy peanut butter because it's cheaper than natural, organic. As for the yoghurt, the one I buy in the supermarket isn't from some huge company, like Yoplait. It's actually made by a small, regional company and is organic. The coffee I buy at Costco is produced by a national company, not the imported from the US Costco brand. I try not to put much money in the hands of multinationals.
I buy all my hardware supplies in the local mom and pop hardware stores, rather than Home Depot. I bought my appliances from family-owned appliance stores, not some big box store.
The thing is, I live in a really pricey tourist town. The prices at the local farmers market are geared for tourists, not locals. The pricing is more like what an American or Canadian would be used to paying back home, even though the cost of the ingredients are much less expensive here and the cost of living is way less. The farmer's market here is so geared to tourists that it only functions during tourist season- it's closed from May-November.
I like supporting locals and buying quality products, but I don't like being taken advantage of. I don't know where you live, but if you lived in a town that mostly survives off of tourism, and where people tend to see anyone who isn't Mexican as a rich ***** with unlimited quantities of cash, you'd get what I'm talking about.
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