11/10/2026
Genuine question...
How many people walk into a supermarket and start haggling over the price of their groceries or household bits?
Exactly. None.
So why is it seen as acceptable to haggle with small businesses - as though we should take less than the clearly advertised price?
If we asked someone to work for less than minimum wage, they'd quite rightly tell me to jog on.
Yet somehow it's fine for people to ask us to take less for the product we have run after for many years, handled, looked after, delivered, stored and then sell.
We have a running joke in our house, that as soon as someone asks for a price list, we won’t hear from them ever again. But how many of you have actually ever compared prices? And if you did, did you compare like for like or did you honestly compare us to supermarkets value?
We know that there are others that do what we do who are pricier. We know that the butcher and supermarkets actually charge more for their produce. When pricing up we always round down to the nearest 0 or 5p, but somehow you want it still cheaper of us?
The animal is paid for. The fencing is paid for. The vet has been paid. The farm buildings have been paid for. The truck and trailer all paid off. The diesel to take the animals to abattoir is paid for. The abattoir is paid. The butcher is paid.
The only way we could make it cheaper is to make our own time worthless, despite working 7 days a week.
We are not a family that goes on elaborate holidays. We don’t run around in designer clothes. Hell, I can’t remember the last time I even went to the hairdresser. Never mind such things as nails, lashes or ‘retail therapy’.
Please be so kind and don’t ask for it to be cheaper than it already is. Quite frankly: we can’t!
And breathe...
I better go and do the animals for evening feeding!
