Friday, November 14, 2014

2000 Pounds of Candy, oh yeah!

Here's an incredible day for you!!
Imagine receiving about 2000 pounds of candy in one day....boxes all over the store, no place to hide them and no place to store all the extra candy and gifts in the back room.
That is the scenerio for a small-ish retail store when almost all the candy ordered for the holidays, as well as the ingredients for making candy all come in on the same day.
This is a yeoman's job and I have to say that our staff took care of all of this in 2 days time, while at the same time, answering the phone, waiting on customers, making sure the candy section was clean and tidy and eating their lunches as quickly as they could
New staff are always amazed at the amount of boxes which come in at Christmas time.  When the delivery truck opened his back door and we saw an 8 foot tower of candy boxes on his truck, eyes were opened in amazement, while we all took a deep breath.  That pallet of boxes was only one of three we received that day.
When you walk down the promenade in an indoor mall, you get so accustomed to seeing little corridors breaking off the main one, you simply don't think about what is going on down that-a-way.  I can tell you that the UPS and the FedEx trucks, not to mention other delivery services are pulling up to those outside doors, ready to unload tons of merchandise.
There are no little magical fairies who come out at night to unload, price, restock and back stock all that stuff.  A person working in retail learns quickly how to juggle multiple tasks at the same time.
At Sweet Tooth, all of our staff are no longer rookies.  It only takes one holiday season to eliminate the mystery of how things get done in a retail store.
We are stocked.  We are ready.  We have smaller and smaller aisles in the store and the shelves are almost up to the ceiling with all that candy.  On the "gift side" Jeff has hauled box upon box of decorations, accessories, glass plates and ornaments, etc. from our garage to the store and with extreme and dedicated effort, it is all ready for the holiday shopper.
Will we see you soon?  We hope so.