Dan felt eggstremely embarrassed when he realised his mistake (Picture: Sinclair General Stores/SWNS)
As owner of the only shop on a remote Scottish island with 500 residents, stock management is extremely important.
But an ordering error means the Orkney island of Sanday now has more Easter eggs than people.
Dan Dafydd, owner of Sinclair General Stores, thought he’d put in an order for 80 individual chocolate eggs – so he was astonished when the delivery truck turned up two weeks later with 80 cases instead.
An impressive haul of 720 Easter eggs means that the chocolate treats now outnumber Sanday’s population. If they were going to team up and eat all of the eggs, each resident would need to eat just under one-and-a-half eggs each.
Dan explained: ‘I was wanting to order 80 Easter eggs – the deals weren’t great so I wanted to get the bare minimum, and we could always add more when the time gets closer.
‘I thought nothing more of it – until the delivery truck turned up two weeks ago with a lorry filled with Easter eggs.
Dan didn’t realise his mistake until the delivery lorry turned up (Picture: Sinclair General Stores/SWNS)
Dealing with a huge number of eggs isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (Picture: Sinclair General Stores/SWNS)
At least he’s making the best of an unfortunate situation by raising money for the RNLI (Picture: Sinclair General Stores/SWNS)
‘You can imagine my surprise, shock and shame as I realised I had messed up and ordered 80 cases – not 80 singular Easter eggs.
‘It is mental how it kicked off! I imagine everyone is having a good giggle, which is good!’
There are now hundreds of Easter eggs in the Sinclair General Store – mainly appearing to be KitKat Chunky or Smarties themed.
Thankfully, Dan has come up with a plan to get some of the excess eggs off his hands (and out of his store room).
He’s set up a raffle, charging £1 per ticket for the chance to win 100 Easter eggs, and all money raised will go to the RNLI.
‘We are a small island surrounded by sea, lots of people have died here from boat related incidents, but RNLI serve the community and we have a colleague who works closely with them too,’ Dan explained.
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‘So it just made sense to use RNLI – and it has coincided nicely as they are carrying out their 200 year anniversary too.’
A spokesperson for the charity couldn’t resist cracking an egg-related joke when they responded: ‘We’re eggstremely grateful to Dan at Sinclair General Stores in Sanday for this incredibly generous gesture after a rather unfortunate delivery of 720 chocolate eggs.’
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