Trolley 377

The rules committee allowed this marginal trolley, captured outside our Costcutter, on grounds of novelty. One of the half dozen or so usually kept inside for serious shoppers.

Off camera to the left we had two delivery lorries, one very large and one just large. Are these lorries travelling emporia from which shops like this one stock up on an ad-hoc basis, in the way of housewives stocking up from the grocers' vans that plied housing estates when I was young, or are they all loaded up at dawn on the basis of overnight till records from the shops on their round - with no possibility of change once the lorry has left the distribution warehouse?

From where I associated to a minicab driver from many years ago who had once made a living out of delivering bananas to shops, on his own account. He would buy the bananas from banana ripeners and them peddle them to the shops in his area. Banana ripeners clearly still exist, with the first two found by Bing included below. But what about one man and a van type operations between them and small shops?

PS: note the pedal, left over from the days when I used to wear toe-clips to cycle. I have been meaning to get them changed to something more suitable for no-clip cycling for years, but somehow never get around to it. Needless to say, my collection of antique cycle tools does not run to anything which can move today's pedals.

Reference 1: https://www.jnfoxandsonsltd.co.uk/index.html.

Reference 2: https://www.bfsbananas.com/.