Fast food, jewelry stores and other
retailers with high mark - ups might pay percentages between 8 % and 10 %, while an apparel retailer with a lower mark - up might pay only 5 %.
I don't particularly endorse buying organic products from large
retailers, but can say that smaller roasters — at least the many that I have talked to or worked
with — do not use «
higher - than - necessary
mark - ups.»