Go to Sainsbury's instead.
I don't know what variety of broccoli they sell , but it's 90p a pound, and they won't try to over-weigh it by 40%.
I'm sure the vast majority of market traders are honest, but this sort do the rest a dis-service.
AC mentions traders that let you prod the goods, if you are a regular, well Sainsbury's let you do it even on your first visit.
My wife used to regularly get veg from a stall near where we used to live, and she would dig through the sweetcorn with abandon. She did suggest, however, that anybody with a darker complexion doing the same was immediately barked at by the stallholder.
Sometimes I wonder if people realise that it isn't 1950 anymore. Then people had little choice. Now, you either provide excellent service to everybody and earn their trust, or you'll quickly find all your customers have gone to Tesco.
You'll have to rely upon an ever dwindling number of people who have always bought from market stalls, or just love the atmosphere, or cater for the ever so trendy "farm shop" crowd (just don't tell them that you buy from the same farms as Asda).
Last edited by: SteelSpark on Mon 3 Jun 13 at 09:41
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