Seeing i’ve got a massive batch of cookies, I now want to try and sell them! To see what people think of them in person I’ve decided to go to a market and try selling some there. Took a train down to Greenwich Market.
I had called up a few days earlier and spoke to the Market people (though they were hard to get a hold of). They have just started doing a Wednesday market, and they have made it a Food type market. Apparently it’s only been going for a few months and they are trying to make it a bit bigger. The person I spoke to said that they don’t have any space for traders though on Thursday, and they are pretty booked out on Saturday and Sunday. The weekend day’s are obviously there most popular/busiest days.
So turned up on Wednesday, seeing it took me an hour to get there I got there a bit late.. But managed to track down the woman looking after the market. She was a bit surprised that I turned up there late-ish, then proceeded to tell me that I should have contacted them earlier, and I said how I did. So she went and got me a tray to setup. She also kept saying how they only let you setup once and view how well your presentation is on that day as to whether or not they will let you back again. Apparently a number of markets require you to write essays and fill out different forms. There they just take you on and see how your stall looks, product looks, etc.
So I started to setup.. and then got all worried about the doing a good presentation. Wanted to talk to the woman more about what she meant.. and of course she had completed vanished. She said she had gone off to talk to a friend and then never came back!
As you can see my initial stall wasn’t quite that well prepared! 🙂
So after waiting around for a good number of hours and waiting for the woman to turn up.. She never did! I gave up and went home. Once home I went down the road to the Indian shop down the road to buy some cloth to use for my stall the next time!