No Credit Card Surcharge

The farmstand is open this afternoon (Saturday Feb, 24.2024) as normal with a nice selection of winter storage crops and bulk foods. We have stopped charging a surcharge for credit card sales in response to Hochul’s new law that prohibits us from passing the cost of credit card fees on to the customer unless we put both the credit and cash price on item and shelf signage (our equipment such as the label printing scales for the bulk food is not able to do this). Another recommended option is to just charge the higher credit card price to all customers. This option does not suit me. In 2023 about 32 % of our customers paid with cards and 68% paid with cash or check. The rate of credit card use was quite a lot higher before we started surcharging. Starting today we will be giving a 3% cash/ check discount at check out instead. For now the prices throughout the market are still the old pricing however as we get to it and new product comes in we will be moving our posted prices up enough to cover this cost. Daniel