Mix-up order totals more than island’s population

AN ISLAND is in the middle of a chocolate frenzy after a shop accidentally ordered 720 Easter eggs for only 500 residents.

Sinclair General Stores in Sanday on Orkney ordered 80 cases of Easter eggs instead of 80 eggs.

Shop owner Dan ap Dafydd then decided to do a special Easter competition which will see one lucky person take home 100 chocolate eggs, all in aid of charity.

Dan described his feelings of “embarrassment and shame” when the large order arrived.

He said: “The rest of the staff were chuckling and finding it very entertaining.

“I was doing our Easter egg orders and was looking at doing 80.

“Having put the order through, I thought nothing more of it. But when it arrived in store, it turned out I’d ordered 80 cases of Easter eggs, meaning I had 720 rather than the 80 required.”

Dan said their Easter egg stock now outnumbered the population of Sanday.

He said: “I don’t think conventional means is going to get rid of them.”

It took a while but Dan has come up with the perfect way to get rid of them.

He said: “We’ve been thinking outside the box a little bit. We’re doing a ‘guess the number’ square to win 100 Easter eggs, with proceeds going to the RNLI.” He added: “If you won them you’d probably just give them all away but a couple of customers were pretty set on the idea of trying to eat all 100.” The RNLI said it wanted to say thank you for the fundraising idea. The lifeboat charity said: “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.”