Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report: at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
Northern Nut Growers Association -- Periodicals; Nut trees -- Periodicals; Nuts -- Periodicals
The American public buy with their eyes. Consequently, the packaging of
black walnut kernels or the packaging of any merchandise is very
important. I made a statement this morning that has always been
interesting to me. You know, Chicago is the biggest candy center in the
world, and we do a lot of experimenting with candy. Now, your industry
is tied very closely to candy, because a lot of the black walnuts,
hickory nuts, and the like, go into the making of candy. But to prove my
point, a number of times friends of mine who are interested in the sale
of merchandise have taken quality candy and packed it in a common box,
and they have taken an inferior quality of candy and packed it in a
fancy box and set it on the floor and put the same price on both
products. The American public, remember, buys with their eyes. So they
buy something that is well dressed and they buy that inferior product,
twice or three times as fast as they would that quality product in the
common box.
I am bringing this out to illustrate a point. _Well packaged
merchandise, sightly merchandise, always pays._ Quality to you people
who actually crack black walnuts in your homes is something that will
pay dividends. Separate your big kernels. Offer them to the public and
they will pay for them.
I was talking to Dr. Jones of Pennsylvania about the sale of black
walnut halves. He says that he gets a good many of them. Well, there
are throughout these United States of ours a good many very fancy
stores that will buy merchandise of this type. But the quantity that
anyone gets is very small, so the suggestion that I made to Dr. Jones is
that he take his quarters and mix them with his halves. That's not
cheating or anything like it. It is making a product that is superior.
And you know they say if a man makes a better mousetrap the world will
come to his door. And that is generally true. Sometimes it takes a long
time to bring it to the American public or to your buyers, to make them
realize that you have a superior product, but that's the thing that it
takes.
Now, there are a number of ways they sell blacks in this country. They
sell them in two-ounce cellophane bags, they sell them in six-ounce
cellophane, they sell them in eight-ounce cellophane, but the greater
quantity of the blacks are sold in bulk, as Tom told you, in 35- and
50-pound cases, and they go to the candy manufacturer, they go to the
ice cream manufacturer, and chiefly throughout the southern part of the
United States for ice cream, believe it or not. The Southern States buy
more black walnut ice cream than any other division of the United
States. In the Central West, too, black walnuts are quite popular for
use in ice cream.
Now, if there is anyone that has any questions, I'd like for you to ask
them, and I will try to answer them, I won't promise that I can, about
the marketing of black walnuts.
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A Member: What's the retail sale on those cellophane bags?
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