Conversation

It was quiet in town today, and I got chatting to the greengrocer.

She was saying that they’d been on the verge of going under, with just her and her husband full time and a lad helping out before college in the morning, and thinking that at best they’d have to switch to just opening three days a week.

Then lockdown happened. They’ve retained a lot of the new customers they got from the veg boxes they started delivering, and now have three full-time employees as well as themselves, and three morning lads, and more in-person traffic than they had before as well.

The local butchers apparently have similar stories.

I thought it was interesting: we hear a lot about pubs and restaurants going bust, but not so much about stories like this.