Sunset Beach Products

As another year has passed, the year coming to a close welcoming anew year around the corner, the Smith family and Sunset Beach Products are ever grateful for the local community in the NW, markets in Seaside, Astorias and Ilwaco (Washington) and the multitude of support nationwide as we ship almost daily over the country, we welcome the new year and commence with our traditional trek to the SW communities in Arizona and hope to see many of you soon beginning in Quartzite Arizona at Tyson Wells space P28-29 January 1st through the month of January. Next we will catch up with our Lake Havasu City supporters in their Winterfest. If you can’t wait until February, or make it in January to Quartzite, feel welcome to shop our online website and or call.
For 23 years customers have been here for us, we are always open as well for you.
Happy holidays and welcome everyone to a new year!

Something to consider at the Ilwaco Saturday Market and Astoria Sunday Market, or anywhere there’s particularly small business. Using cards for purchases takes the money from small business and gives it to the big businesses, banks etc.

I copied this from someone else. Very interesting and it really made me stop and think about using cash more often.

I have really never thought of this has anyone else?

💲Please understand what NOT
using cash is doing.

Cash is important. 💸

Why should we pay cash everywhere we can
with banknotes instead of a credit card? 💳

- I have a $50 banknote in my pocket.
Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it. The restaurant owner then uses the bill to pay for the laundry. The laundry owner then uses the bill to pay the barber. The barber will then use the bill for shopping.

After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a $50, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank has jumped dry from every cash payment transaction made...

- But if I come to a restaurant and pay digitally - Card, and bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around $1.50 and so will the fee $1.50 for each further payment transaction or owner re laundry or payments of the owner of the laundry shop, or payments of the barber etc.....

Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial $50 will remain only $5 😫 and the remaining $45 became the property of the bank 🏦 thanks to all digital transactions and fees.

Small businesses need your help and this is one way to help ourselves too. Pull small draws of cash out at a time and use that instead of tap, credit, etc.

When this is put into perspective, imagine what each retailer is paying on a monthly basis in fees at 3% per transaction through their POS machine.

If they have, for example, $50,000 in sales & 90% are by Card, they are paying $1500 in fees in ONE Month. $18,000 in a year! That comes out of their income every month.

That would go a long way to helping that small business provide for its family!🏦♥️"

See you there this Sunday at space 8-10 (the usual place and usual time) 10am-3pm!

NEXT SUNDAY is THE DAY!

Astoria Sunday Market opens NEXT SUNDAY, May 14th, at 10 AM. Join us for all the local goodness you expect and more! We hope you will be there to help us celebrate the opening of our 23rd year!

Sundays, 10am to 3pm, May 14th through October 8th, 12th Street, Downtown Astoria, Oregon

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Seaside Farmers Market is starting soon! Come see us here:

This last weekend was a success and I couldn’t have done this without all the help of family and friends. Grateful!
This was a nice write-up, thanks for sending me this page Kathy Tippett
Hey Smith Tonelyn, check it out! Randy Mitchell Mardel Mitchell
Lake Havasu City Area Chamber of Commerce rocks!
Thanks also to the Lake Havasu local paper Today’s News Herald and JOEY POSTIGLIONE for the write-up!
Missed you Michelle Mizuno Gardia
🙏





Winterfest was awesome!
Thanks again to the wonderful efforts of the Chamber of Commerce, they organise the best event of the year! 🙏🏝

All ready, opening day!
Okay let’s see some presence….
Come by and visit me at Tyson-Wells Space P28-29

After another successful trip with the business down to Arizona I have returned to the Production studio and ready to take orders and ship out as needed so feel welcome to call in place orders or you can or you can go to my website and they will be shipped out properly as I prepare for the next market season beginning May 1!

Just sayin’
…and also CLEANING UP America’s better half, one body at a time, for 20 years now!

This wraps up my 20th season in the markets over the next few weeks in case you’re unable to get down to the market and restock, you can always shop on the website. Don’t see it on the website? Message or call. Thanks to all the loyal customers for making these past 20 years a memorable and enjoyable time! 🙏