watervole | Shop record broken

We broke the shop sales record today. Well, maybe I lie a little. We didn't so much break it as smash it!

We beat our previous best sales for a week by around £350 and also set a new record for sales in one day, cheerfully beating the previous record set last Xmas eve.

We had several really good sales (£60 - 10 vol set of Horace Walpole's letters; a lovely art book for £25; three autographed novels for a total of £25; some modern organic chemistry books for £55 in total), but even without those sales, the record for the week would still have been broken by a good margin.

We're just selling more of everything - about a thousand items over the week. More books, more children's books, more music, more films, more everything.

We thought we had the shop reasonably well organised by this time last year, but we've been tweaking all sorts of small details since then and the small tweaks add up.

About a month ago, we started sorting movies into the different age ratings (U, PG, 12, 16, 18). This week, we swapped the children's movies and the poetry shelves over to bring the children's movies lower down.

Those two small changes have probably tripled our sales of children's films.

Thank goodness for our two Saturday volunteers (both still at school). We'd never have kept up with restocking the shelves without them.