The vending machines accept coins and notes and will eventually take card payments tooRoadside stalls selling the freshest farm produce with an honesty box for payment are one of the delights of the British countryside. However, sinister events in Norfolk have undermined notions of rural trustworthiness and caused one farming family to invest in German engineering to stop sticky fingers. David and Julie Barber, of Cavick House Farm, Wymondham, sell eggs from their 16,000 free-range hens to M&S and the Happy Egg Co. For the past seven years they have also sold direct to locals and passers by on an honesty basis. Recently, however, the couple realised that, while their Egg Shed’s stock needed replenishing more frequently, the takings were falling. Certain locals, or perhaps interlopers from nearby Norwich, were failing to pay the £1 for half a…

Source: The Times August 07, 2017 10:52 UTC