The Alkmaar cheese market

• Visit the Cheese market
  • When and where
  • Accessibility and Parking
  • Arriving by public transport
  • Tour coaches
  • Cheese Market for groups
  • Dutch Cheese Museum
  • Cheesefarms in and around Alkmaar
  • Order the Cheese Market Magazine here
• Ins and outs of the cheesemarket
  • History of the cheesemarket
  • Putting up the cheeses
  • Cheese father calls the roll
  • Opening of the market
  • Cheese inspection
  • Price bargaining
  • Weighing the cheese
  • Carrying cheese
  • The end of the cheese market
• Cheese carriers’ guild
  • Alkmaar cheese carriers’ guild
  • The forwarding companies
  • Traditions, customs, and habits
  • Positions of the cheese market and in the guild
  • Cheesemaids
• Cheese in the Netherlands
  • A piece of history
  • From Cow to Cheese
  • Cheese types
• More about Alkmaar
  • City at the water
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  • Out and about with a group
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Price bargaining

Price bargaining per kilo is still done by means of clapping hands: bargaining by clapping one another’s hands and shouting prices. The last clap clinches the sale of a batch of cheese.