mouse_chalk
Well-Known Member
We have a fruit and veg shop that we go to get our bunny veg. They do massive huge bunches of parsley, huge romaine lettuces, and lots of local spring greens, all better quality and all cheaper than supermarkets. Plus it's a lot quiter and a much more pleasant experience. The greengrocer just happens to live round the corner of us, as we saw the van there one day and mentioned it to him. Ever since then, he always asks how our bunnies are when we go in. He will always come up and ask us if we need anything that's not on the shelves. He will send people out the back to find the biggest bunches of parsley and charge us 75-50% the normal price for them because we are in there so often.
He has even offered to deliver any veg we need to our house if we can't get there for some reason- he says he's more than willing to drop it off on his way home (the shop is about 20mins on the other side of the city to us). He is SUCH a nice guy!
Anyway, today was the best bit. We went in about an hour before closing because we were really short on veg unexpectedly and they are closed tomorrow. He said that he thought they had run out of flat-leaf, but went and got us a carrier bag FULL of curly-leaf parsley. Only charged us £1!! He was asking Steve what he does for a living, and was so interested when Steve said he builds websites that Steve ended up leaving a card, so has a potential new client. Then, as we were walking back to the car, one of the other employess chases us down the street shouting 'excuse me!' We turned around and he handed us a HUGE bag of flat-leaf parsley saying 'this is from Zane- he found it in the fridge'.
We estimate that we probably got about £15 worth of parsley for £1!!! :shock:
This is just half of what we had this afternoon- the rest had been squashed into the fridge:
Oh, and he also saves us the carrot tops and gives them to us free when we go in as well.
So, just goes to show how it really pays to make friends with your greengrocer!
He has even offered to deliver any veg we need to our house if we can't get there for some reason- he says he's more than willing to drop it off on his way home (the shop is about 20mins on the other side of the city to us). He is SUCH a nice guy!
Anyway, today was the best bit. We went in about an hour before closing because we were really short on veg unexpectedly and they are closed tomorrow. He said that he thought they had run out of flat-leaf, but went and got us a carrier bag FULL of curly-leaf parsley. Only charged us £1!! He was asking Steve what he does for a living, and was so interested when Steve said he builds websites that Steve ended up leaving a card, so has a potential new client. Then, as we were walking back to the car, one of the other employess chases us down the street shouting 'excuse me!' We turned around and he handed us a HUGE bag of flat-leaf parsley saying 'this is from Zane- he found it in the fridge'.
We estimate that we probably got about £15 worth of parsley for £1!!! :shock:
This is just half of what we had this afternoon- the rest had been squashed into the fridge:
Oh, and he also saves us the carrot tops and gives them to us free when we go in as well.
So, just goes to show how it really pays to make friends with your greengrocer!
