RE: Small egg shops in rural towns and our daily lives

The detail that got me is the shopkeeper waiting with the phone. That is the whole rural economy in one image.

In Cuba we know that shop: the carton of eggs on the table, the difference between farm eggs and the ones from the store, and the neighbour who sells whatever she has that day because the official supply did not arrive. Nobody calls it an economy, but it is, and it moves more than people think.

What I wonder is who supplies those shops: one farmer, or a chain of small resellers that ends somewhere in another town?