A bit of
movement in the ranks of Fruit & Vegetable traders with reports that award
winners from the 2018 QVM Trader Awards, the Bongiorno Brothers, have sold
their business, and another F&V Trader has had their license cancelled.
And the
caption for this photo – “He’s not spreading, just hanging out the washing.”
It is easy
to complain about extreme temperatures during the current heatwave but as one
trader pointed out it doesn’t seem to faze our tourist visitors who may only be
in town for a few days and just get on with their shopping no matter what the
conditions.
While we are
talking about tourists – one English tourist said over the weekend that he will
be telling his friends back home not to worry so much about the sharks, spiders,
and snakes in Australia, but those bush fires are really scary.
Card or bust
– a trader reported that card transactions over this weekend constituted 86% of
his total sales. He put that down to tourists, including internationals, who
now all seem to be enjoying the convenience of tap’n’go technology.
One traders
answer to the heat problem.
Did anybody
else notice that J Shed didn’t have many stall gaps in Sunday’s extreme heat?
Is that aisle becoming the “comfort aisle”?
And one
trader says he is surprised at how many traders are attending Opera At The
Market this week. He didn’t realise we had so many cultured traders. Another
trader who attended last year said the night was quite magnificent and the
sound and lighting show off our wonderful old sheds in their true beauty. “Unfortunately
we spoil the setting by putting in traders.” He was joking. Seriously! He was
joking.