Things are beginning to settle down here at the store. The schedule still needs some tweaks, but folks are getting used to things with the new point-of-sale system, which is now my biggest hurdle in letting go. I will have to say, from a software standpoint, we have more power than we need currently, but that means we have room to grow.
I do have to let go... if for nothing else, to save my sanity. I love y'all to pieces, but I now know why a lot of game store owners suffer from burnout. I'm heading there myself, and I know it. I'm trying to do what I can to combat it, but some folks do *NOT* make that easy.
As far as weekend sales go, those went *WAY* beyond my hopes and predictions. That has reduced my stress a bit as I was afraid that I had heinously overspent. I probably did overspend, but our sales were good enough to bail us out. I need to watch that in the future, ESPECIALLY since we now have employees. Gotta be able to pay those guys... They're gonna help keep me sane...
-- GopherDave
Oooh I like that tie, too. :) Then again, I like most of your ties.
ReplyDeleteWe had an insanely good week / weekend here as well. Broke a couple of records.
Thank you for the compliments! They help feed my ego... ;)
ReplyDeleteWhere is "here", Kristi? If I know you in real life, I'm not currently connecting the dots...
She's up north, where we got the slatwall.
ReplyDeleteOh Dave...
ReplyDeleteSanity is SO over rated.
:)
LOL sorry - thought you knew who I was. :) Loq has it...this is Mrs. Gryf.
ReplyDeleteAH!
ReplyDeleteHey there, Kristi!
I was blithely unaware that you paid attention to what I did in my little corner of the interwebs...
Thanks again to you and your other (better?) half for the slatwall. It makes our store look a LOT better.
Now... what would it take to get your husband to follow my sartorial example while he's at your store? I'm guessing a *LOT* of money, but that's just my impression... ;)
-- GD
LOL not a chance. :) But he's been talking about getting polos embroidered for a long time. Maybe we'll get that done this year.
ReplyDelete@ Kristi: Understood... Mr. Gryf has always struck me to be pretty much a t-shirt/jeans type of guy. Thing is, I am very much a t-shirt/sweats guy myself. It took a bit of personal prodding not to get me to do what I do, but to keep it up. It's paid dividends... Sales here have been on a constant climb since I began doing the shirt/tie thing. Wether that's due to the personal upgrade, or due to the fact that we haven't hit a sales plateau yet in our five years of existance, I'm not sure. I like to think it's the former... ...it helps make what I'm doing worth it in my head...
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