Cracking service from farm鈥檚 24/7 egg vending machines
Residents in C么te-d鈥橭r (Bourgogne-Franche-Comt茅) can now get their eggs day and night after a farm installed five 鈥渁utomatic egg vending machines鈥� on the side of the road.
The Pontot farm in the commune of Gevrey-Chambertin, near Dijon - owned and managed by Philippe Plan莽on and his brother, and home to 24,000 hens - has installed the vending machines in five nearby communes, explains local .
The machines sell boxes of six eggs for 鈧�2.50, and take coins. At any time of the day or night, locals can drive or walk up to the machines, put in their change, and take away fresh eggs.
The machines鈥� stocks are replenished every two days.
The farm reportedly hit upon the 鈥渄irect sales鈥� idea - in tandem with the local Mairie - to supplement its existing business selling to a local greengrocer and small local shops, and diversify the kinds of people who have access to super-fresh, local eggs.
"We don't work directly with supermarkets, we sell in a 鈥榮hort circuit鈥�, and also directly on the farm,鈥� explains Philippe Plan莽on, .
鈥淚t has been just over a week, and it has not started too badly. I have sold more than 30 dozen eggs (around 360) in the past seven days,鈥� he added.
One vending machine has reportedly proved to be particularly popular in the local commune of Saint-Philibert, which is home to just 500 people, especially as its own local shop shut down seven years ago, Mayor Hubert Poullot.
