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We are lucky will still have some good ones.

I agree completely but have snipped for brevity.

Yes.

And when the oil price goes up enough to make supermarket practice of carting goods around everywhere from central storage, what will happen to the supermarkets? Do you think they will subsidise goods to keep prices down? If they have end off all the opposition why should they. I know cartels are illegal but I wouldn't rule out unproveable "understandings" beween the various supermarkets.

Nuff said.

There are environmental health regulations saying how meat must be packed for market stalls and it is quite possible that sealing in plastic is mandatory; I am not familiar with the regs. I do know that if certain conditions are not met, any meat not sold must be thrown away and cannot be sold after the market.

Haven't seen any of those; maybe we have higher standards here in the SW so farmers' stall holders know that it's not worth trying to sell anything that looks like that.

When you are starting up you have a large financial outlay to buy the equipment you are obliged to have (refrigeration etc); non-essential equipment, eg label processing, may have to wait until you are up and running. If it is illegible tell the stallholder that that is the reason why you are not buying his goods; there is no reason why handwritten labels have to be illegible.

It depends whether there are enough customers who think their goods are worth buying and that may be by experience rather than by the labels or the wrapping.

Yes. We have a fish van which sells beautiful fresh fish and comes around the villages one day a week; comes to our door, in fact.

Cheers Jane

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