[CH] Re: Possible Red Savina Pick-up In Oxnard, CA destined for N.

Dave Gomberg (gomberg@wcf.com)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:38:21 -0700 

OK Art, I think this makes good sense.   I will order 100# at $3 per pound
plus shipping by FedEx to the HotLuck on October 4th.  I get a real good
Fedex rate, so they should be shipped Thursday October 1 with two day
service to arrive Saturday, October 3.   OK?     They will be for sale by
the pound to HotLuck attendees.   Frank and Mary should email or call me
for shipping info.   Anyone who can't come to the Hotluck but would like to
get some savinas anyway in SF can partake.   Total cost, $4 per pound.
Please let me know if you want any.     Bubba Frisco Dave  


At 04:47 PM 9/16/98 -0700, you wrote:
>SF Bay and other N. Calif chileheads,
>
>We need people to commit to buying red savinas.
>
>They go for as much as $26/lb. on the web.
>
>Here's what's starting to go on right now.
>
>Rob & Joni Rayment of Salsa,etc. in Milpitas aren't getting their usual
>500-lb [50 boxes at 10-lb.each.] of red savinas @ $2/lb. from Frank &
>Mary Garcia (at GNS Spices in Walnut, southern CA, 800-870-6657. The
>boxes are approx. 12"x12"x18"deep. They keep for two to three months in
>a refrigerator, and up to a year in a freezer (lose their crunchy
>texture once their frozen).
>
>Frank & Mary started picking yesterday, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1998. They
>will pick thru Thursday, Oct. 15th and then have a 32,000-lb. order to
>be picked, starting Friday, Oct 16th, so this buy for N. Calif. needs to
>take place before Oct 16th.
>
>Mary also said World Variety, (800) 468-7111, will be supplying savinas
>to Albertson's/Lucky's supermarkets. The regular habs go for @2.99/lb.
>(at least) at our local Albertson's, so I imagine the savinas will be a
>little pricey at your local market.
>
>The savinas can be stored in the Grey Bears' big cooler, 2710
>Chanticleer, near the only drive-in movie theater in Santa Cruz,
>(831)-479-1055. (Grey Bears is a non-profit that supplies weekly brown
>bags of food to the elderly and elderly shut-ins for $20/year.)
>
>If I remember rightly, Rob, to encourage buying of larger amounts,
>started at ~$6/lb. for less than 10-lb., then stepped the price down at
>25-lb. and 50-lb. amounts, fimally pricing it at a low of $3/lb. for
>100-lb. Rob's biggest buyer was 100# by Jack Curry at the Prince of
>Wales in San Mateo. Jack isn't getting that much this time, but I'm
>trying to get enough people together to keep the $/lb. price down.
>That's $1000 plus gas money to Oxnard and back to Santa Cruz (~1200miles
>/ ~20mpg x ~$1.50/gallon = ~$100). This works out to ~$2.25/lb (I'll
>show the receipts and give any profit to Grey Bears).
>
>Mary says they'll pick the peppers one day before we pick them up and
>cool them down at the Driscoll Farners' Coop, 3939 East Hueneme Road,
>Oxnard, CA 93033; (805)-488-0333.
>
>Anybody in Northern California that's interested, please email a reply,
>how much you're interested in, so we can make this take place.
>
>[Mary said she'd talk to Frank tonight about possibly letting us do as
>little as 25 boxes (i.e., $500), but that's  just a thought at this
>stage. This would work out to ~$2.50/lb. (I'll show the receipts and
>give any profit to Grey Bears).]
>
>Thanks,
>
>Art
>(831)-724-7204
>
>[Scott Ashkenaz: I'm putting all this info here so any entrepreneurial
>type can pick up on it in the future, or even this year, if they keep
>the price down.]
>
>

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