An error by a shop on the Orkney island of Sanday has left it with 720 Easter eggs in the store – far more than its entire population.
Sinclair General Stores needed to order 80 eggs, but instead accidentally ordered 80 cases of nine, giving it a total of 720 for the 500-strong population.
The shop’s owner Dan Dafydd described his initial “embarrassment and shame” when he realised how many eggs had arrived.
“The rest of the staff were chuckling and finding it very entertaining,” he added.
In the spirit of Willy Wonka, he is now running a competition to let one person win 100 of the spare eggs – all in aid of charity.
He said: “I don’t think conventional means is going to get rid of them.
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In a statement, the RNLI thanked the shop for the efforts to raise money for the organisation.
It said: “We’re eggstremely grateful to Dan Ap Dafydd at Sinclair General Stores in Sanday for this incredibly generous gesture after a rather unfortunate delivery of 720 chocolate eggs! Thank you.”
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
An error by a shop on the Orkney island of Sanday has left it with 720 Easter eggs in the store – far more than its entire population.
The shop’s owner Dan Dafydd described his initial “embarrassment and shame” when he realised how many eggs had arrived.
In the spirit of Willy Wonka, he is now running a competition to let one person win 100 of the spare eggs – all in aid of charity.
Dafydd added: “If you won them you’d probably just give them all away, but a couple of customers were pretty set on the idea of trying to eat all 100.”
It said: “We’re eggstremely grateful to Dan Ap Dafydd at Sinclair General Stores in Sanday for this incredibly generous gesture after a rather unfortunate delivery of 720 chocolate eggs!
The RNLI is the largest of the lifeboat services in the UK, Irish and Channel Island coastlines; it is funded mostly by donations, and is primarily run by volunteers.
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Those would’ve surely been some expensive eggs if he actually only got 80.
