Six that are already built, if you would rather not decide.
Every one of these is a configuration somebody else arrived at and enough people repeated that it was worth naming. Prices are what the configurator produces for the same contents, because a prebuilt hamper costing more than its parts is a con.
The six.
| Hamper | In it | Weight | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Gesture | Card box, three jars, a tea towel | 1.4kg | £50 |
| The Usual | Crate, six jars, a truckle, a four-pack of session lager | 3.1kg | £85 |
| The Dry One | Crate, eight jars, a truckle, crackers, an enamel mug | 3.4kg | £85 |
| The Board | Hamper, six jars, the full cheese and ham board, crackers | 4.6kg | £120 |
| The Substantial | Hamper, ten jars, oil, the board, a mixed case of twelve | 6.8kg | £150 |
| The One That Matters | All of the above, a chopping board and a framed print | 8.2kg | £240 |
What is actually in them.
The store cupboard
Fourteen lines, all made within sixteen miles, all with a named producer.
The producers
Nine of them, named, with what they supply and how far away they are.
The brewery
What goes in when a hamper has beer in it, and what the age check involves.
Home and kitchen
Tea towels, mugs, boards and prints — the bit still in the kitchen in three years.
Why the prebuilt ones cost exactly what the configurator says.
The standard retail move is to price a prebuilt hamper at a small premium over its contents, on the grounds that somebody else did the thinking. It is defensible and it is also the fastest way to make a customer who checks feel foolish.
So these six are priced at the sum of their parts, to the penny, and the configurator will produce the same number. What you are being offered is a shortcut rather than a product, and charging for a shortcut somebody could take themselves in ninety seconds is not a business we want.
The bundles in the shop are the opposite case — those are genuinely discounted against the component sum, by ten to fifteen per cent, because a bundle is a commitment to buy more rather than a saved decision.
Ordering more than one.
Under ten
Order them like anything else. They ship in two to five working days.
Ten to fifty
Tell us a week out. It is a picking problem rather than a stock problem, and a week is enough.
Fifty to two hundred
Three weeks, and a conversation, because the jars have to be made by somebody.
Over two hundred
Six weeks minimum, and a discussion with the producers before anybody promises anything.
Any number, to separate addresses
A spreadsheet, and it is on the At Scale page along with what the file has to contain.
What you get
- A named producer for every food line
- A printed card with your message
- Ambient goods only, so nothing perishes in transit
- The same price as building it yourself
- Separate VAT lines on the invoice
What you very much do not
- Anything chilled
- Anything sourced beyond sixteen miles, in the food lines
- Your branding on the jars
- A premium for the convenience
- Delivery to a workplace postroom, if there is alcohol in it
The hampers, questioned.
Then you are using the configurator, which is fine and takes about ninety seconds. These six exist for people who do not want to.
Not with alcohol in them, and not the cheese. The dry ones can go to some places and the page on cross-border gifting sets out which.
The jars are twelve to twenty-four months unopened. The truckle is three weeks ambient and considerably longer in a fridge.
Yes, and about a third of them come back into use as log baskets, which is the highest compliment a hamper receives.
Two hundred of them, to two hundred addresses.
The file format, the lead time, and what goes wrong.
