Most popular jar size ?

[Dadnlad]

What size jar is your most popular seller ?
8oz
12oz
1lb
other ?

 

[oliver90owner]

1/2 kg would be good.

 

[Tom Bick]

Probably some regional differences will happen but for me it's the 12 oz

 

[enrico]

12 oz hex and 1 lb round
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[fatshark]

Having just filled nearly 300 of them anything except 4oz hex … all those corners to trap bubbles

 

[REDWOOD]

1/3 kg would be good for me, but I use 12oz hex

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

1/2 kg would be good.

what's that in ounces?

 

[MuswellMetro]

What size jar is your most popular seller ?
8oz
12oz
1lb
other ?

whatever size times price per lb = £5

£5 is impulse buy, so i sell 12oz at £5 (£6.66perlb) rather than choose the jar size, i go as to what i can sell for £5 ( in barnet Hertfordshire christmas market it is a 12oz jar)

if further out in Hertfordshire the price drops so i would sell a 1lb jar at £5

in central london it would be an 8oz jar as you can get £10 per lb

 

[youngyoungs]

Hex jars seem to go better.

8oz or 12oz.

 

[Jimmys Mum]

12oz hex seem to be preferred here, especially for people buying honey as a gift - I sell at £4. I also offer the 1lb jars for £5 and these sell better to my regular customers who use a lot.

 

[psafloyd]

What size jar is your most popular seller ?
8oz
12oz
1lb
other ?

Most people want the largest one I do, so 454g/1lb. But when I've done a show, people like the 12oz hex jars.

 

[Erichalfbee]

12 oz hexagonal with a black lid and label for soft set....looks classy with the contrast.
12 oz round for runny honey
Both £5.00

 

[Tom Bick]

I finally started to do the odd tabletop sale this year and the hexagonal jar is the one picked up by most people but for gifts I have a rather nice square 12 oz jar that is popular especially with a nice light honey, black lid and clear label. I have also got the same jar but in 8oz nobody is interested. The solution make a simple tray place two jars in the tray one with a light honey the other medium and then suddenly people are picking them up. I guess it all depends on your market but if you make the product desirable the jar may not be so important.

 

[jonnybeegood]

What size jar is your most popular seller ?
8oz
12oz
1lb
other ?

Does it not make a difference how many hives you own? I would think if someone only has a couple of hives & not making as much honey, they would use smaller jars so as to have more to hand out/sell, where'as someone with multiple hives can sell more of the larger jars.

 

[alanf]

If you check the supermarkets, by far the most frequently seen packaging now is a 12oz/340g jar. For "English" honey the price point is 4.95 or 4.99. For the general fair/stall market I think that's a reasonable benchmark. There are specialist and farmers markets where you might charge more but £5 is a good impulse buy price and doesn't involve carrying too much change.

 

[Dadnlad]

Cheers folks, that's confirmed for me that I'll be sticking with the 12oz hex's I've been using this year

Hopefully Pattersons will repeat their 50% off offer from last year

 

[wessexmario]

You might also find though that it will sell better if there's "a choice", so always offer two different sizes/shapes/colours of label...

It's all to do with what goes on in the head of the prospective purchaser,
do you want them to think:

"Shall I buy one of those jars of honey?"
or
"Which of those jars should I buy?"

By only having a choice of one the answer is limited to a "yes/no" choice,
by having a choice, there is a tendency to skip past the "shall I buy" question to the "which one?".
The same applies to the questions the seller can ask the buyer.

 

[ROACHMAN]

You might also find though that it will sell better if there's "a choice", so always offer two different sizes/shapes/colours of label...

It's all to do with what goes on in the head of the prospective purchaser,
do you want them to think:

"Shall I buy one of those jars of honey?"
or
"Which of those jars should I buy?"

By only having a choice of one the answer is limited to a "yes/no" choice,
by having a choice, there is a tendency to skip past the "shall I buy" question to the "which one?".
The same applies to the questions the seller can ask the buyer.

I sell 8oz and 1 lb jars mainly at the local farmers market

I find that the 8 oz are a waste of time

Todays market I sold 46 1lb jars and not a single 8 oz one.

Im seriously thinking of moving to a 12 oz jar next year which will save on having to buy 2 size jars and labels

 

[VEG]

I moved from 1lb jars to 12oz and now only use 12oz, its a lot less faffing around than using different size jars and labels.

 

[jonnybeegood]

You might also find though that it will sell better if there's "a choice", so always offer two different sizes/shapes/colours of label...

It's all to do with what goes on in the head of the prospective purchaser,
do you want them to think:

"Shall I buy one of those jars of honey?"
or
"Which of those jars should I buy?"

By only having a choice of one the answer is limited to a "yes/no" choice,
by having a choice, there is a tendency to skip past the "shall I buy" question to the "which one?".
The same applies to the questions the seller can ask the buyer.

You dont have a choice of one, having one type is having no choice, unless the choice is to buy or not.