Marc Meakin wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2019 4:00 am
Tell me more about the egg round.
I'm a city boy and have never heard of it.
Sounds impractical on a bike
Basically you had to build up your own round - knock on doors and ask people if they wanted "fresh farm eggs" delivered weekly. Became a bit of a tongue twister. I think the minimum order from the supplier was about 20 dozen and you kept a few pence from every box sold.
Put in the legwork, got the customers, and started it. The supplier then started putting up prices, and customers would drop off, but you'd committed to 20 dozen. Was a lot of work for very little money.
I, and I assume most of my customers, thought that the eggs were free range (less common back in the 80s) hence the inflated price, but with hindsight realised that was never actually said - "fresh farm eggs" could equally be a battery farm. Nor were they particularly fresh - any unsold stayed in my shed until the following week.
Last straw was falling off my bike during my delivery and smashing a few boxes, completely wiping out any money I might have made that month.
I wouldn't recommend
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