Last night was a late night. After the store closed, Jay and I rearranged some of the store. Sometimes when you look at the walls, you have a great "master" plan. The good and bad of a location is just that, location. Our store is 50% windows, and therefore we loose 50% of our available retail hanging space. We do gain great street awareness and exposure. So, my main challenge is where to put the merchandise and still have it visually appealing and easily accessible!
I imagine when we've been here 15 years or so, we'll have a tremendous amount of inventory, left over from the years, of items that haven't moved. Then we'll look like older stores with boxes and bins and nooks and crannies to stuff. But, for now, we're happy having the space so we can accomodate birthday parties.
See, we have the worktables in the store, offer open beading on Tuesday nights and welcome everyone to come in and use the tables. We'll let you borrow our shop tools and several people do use them for this purpose. The tables are also great for husbands to read the paper and the kids to do some coloring in the coloring books that are available. We also use of the space for the birthday parties. So filling up the front with too many tables and displays only makes it unworkable when we have a party. Ahh the challenges of a bead store owner!
Now that I have made room, it's time for me to get busy on Monday, "bagging and taggin" all the findings in the back room!
Have a good week,
Luz
I imagine when we've been here 15 years or so, we'll have a tremendous amount of inventory, left over from the years, of items that haven't moved. Then we'll look like older stores with boxes and bins and nooks and crannies to stuff. But, for now, we're happy having the space so we can accomodate birthday parties.
See, we have the worktables in the store, offer open beading on Tuesday nights and welcome everyone to come in and use the tables. We'll let you borrow our shop tools and several people do use them for this purpose. The tables are also great for husbands to read the paper and the kids to do some coloring in the coloring books that are available. We also use of the space for the birthday parties. So filling up the front with too many tables and displays only makes it unworkable when we have a party. Ahh the challenges of a bead store owner!
Now that I have made room, it's time for me to get busy on Monday, "bagging and taggin" all the findings in the back room!
Have a good week,
Luz
