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Bookshop gains permanent status
Great news!
Weldmar have taken a long term lease on the bookshop.
This means that Richard can apply for the job of shop manager (rather than shop assistant). Temporary shops don't have managers - which has been a source of endless frustration to us. (It's not about the pay, it's about being treated differently from every other shop and having less control over how things are done.)
Before anyone says he should get the job automatically, I should say that they're obliged by law to advertise it as it's effectively a new job for a 'new' shop. I fully expect him to get it. It took us a year to get sales to this level, and it would be extremely hard for anyone else to match the level fine-tuning that we do to get those figures.
Charity shops are very different from other book shops. Some knowledge carries over, but some is useless. You don't order your stock, you have to make best use of what arrives at random.
Anyway, a few photos to celebrate.
32 South St on a sunny day last week:
The window display was children's book as it was school holidays. (We change the display every week, but children's books will come out regularly during holidays when we have enough stock)
This is the entertainment stand - music and movies. This helped to double our entertainment sales and we'll really miss it when the winter weather kicks in (though we do have a home-made shower cover for it)
Every week, we have a table outside with a different subject on it. This week was humour. There are several subjects, especially humour, travel writing (not guide books) and celebrity biographies, that simply don't sell inside the shop, but go like hot cakes from a table.
If you'd like to see some photos inside the shop, just ask and I'll take some more.
Weldmar have taken a long term lease on the bookshop.
This means that Richard can apply for the job of shop manager (rather than shop assistant). Temporary shops don't have managers - which has been a source of endless frustration to us. (It's not about the pay, it's about being treated differently from every other shop and having less control over how things are done.)
Before anyone says he should get the job automatically, I should say that they're obliged by law to advertise it as it's effectively a new job for a 'new' shop. I fully expect him to get it. It took us a year to get sales to this level, and it would be extremely hard for anyone else to match the level fine-tuning that we do to get those figures.
Charity shops are very different from other book shops. Some knowledge carries over, but some is useless. You don't order your stock, you have to make best use of what arrives at random.
Anyway, a few photos to celebrate.
32 South St on a sunny day last week:
The window display was children's book as it was school holidays. (We change the display every week, but children's books will come out regularly during holidays when we have enough stock)
This is the entertainment stand - music and movies. This helped to double our entertainment sales and we'll really miss it when the winter weather kicks in (though we do have a home-made shower cover for it)
Every week, we have a table outside with a different subject on it. This week was humour. There are several subjects, especially humour, travel writing (not guide books) and celebrity biographies, that simply don't sell inside the shop, but go like hot cakes from a table.
If you'd like to see some photos inside the shop, just ask and I'll take some more.
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One thing needs emphasising here. If it wasn't for what you two have done the last few years, the bookshop wouldn't have prospered to the point of permanency (or maybe even survived). And let's not overlook that the ultimate beneficiaries are the hospice users. I'm not sure that justifies keeping Jermaine Jackson LPs and Peter Kay DVDs out of landfill, but there ya go :)
You may not have thought of yourselves doing this five years ago, but excellent people carry excellence around with them and shed it wherever they go. Like dog hair, but with less hoovering.
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It's not where we expected to end up, but we both love books and the job always has new challenges, so you never get stale.
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That does soooo look like the sort of shop I could spend serious time in...
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Congrats!
(Anonymous) 2015-09-12 08:00 am (UTC)(link)Anna
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Will keep my fingers crossed for Richard's application.
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