21/09/2026
I just want to put something out there ❤️
I saw a post of people slamming a small business over the price of their loaded apples, and it actually really bothered me.
Running a food business is expensive. There are ingredients, wages, power, insurance, fuel, equipment, packaging, GST, wastage, endless hours other then dealing with customers and countless other costs that people don't see behind the scenes. A common rule in the food industry is that your food cost needs to be marked up substantially just to cover all those overheads and actually make a profit. Gordan Ramsay once stated x4 the cost.
Small businesses are NOT charities. They are businesses, and the people behind them are working incredibly hard to make a living.
Comparing a small local business to McDonald's, supermarkets or huge corporations isn't really fair. Large companies buy products in massive quantities, have huge purchasing power and completely different operating costs. A small business simply can't compete with that pricing and it shouldn't have to.
If you don't want to pay the price of a small business, that's completely okay. You don't have to buy it. Just carry on with your day, but publicly humiliating, attacking or putting down a small business because you don't agree with their pricing is unnecessary.
You have absolutely every right to think something is too expensive. But there is also a person, a family and a huge amount of hard work behind that business.
If you want small businesses in your community to survive, sometimes the best thing you can do is simply support them, recommend them and understand that you're paying for more than just the food. ❤️
Support small. Shop local. And remember there's a real person behind the business. 🫶
So to the women who is getting slammed over her toffee apples, ignore them and keep going, used to affect me when people commented on our pricing but ive learnt to ignore it and thats all you can do at the end of the day. Quality over Quantity ♥️
