Question The Wisdom
There isn’t much to say about a Monday in August under a heat advisory, so here’s some highlights:
Mondays are always my least favorite days at PJP in general. There are a lot of reasons, but primarily we start with zero product and food trucks arrive all morning and it takes a sweet forever to put all the groceries away. That’s probably not interesting, but also neither is the fact that we were hot all day, but here we are.
Today we had a new five gallon bucket of dishwasher detergent delivered and I had to ask the food truck guy to pull the ring tab lid thingie on it off because it requires Herculean finger strength that I really lack. And it makes me wonder, what do all the other bakery owners do if they aren’t strong or don’t have a particularly nice food truck driver? I just feel like if you order a five gallon bucket of detergent, you shouldn’t need set of pliers or abnormal grip strength or the help of a stranger. Or to ruin a perfectly good manicure.
In early July, I ordered $768 worth of stickers for our pie boxes. (The same order last year was just over $400, but that is a whole separate discussion.). As of this morning, they still hadn’t shipped and Jason spent most of his morning wrangling around on the phone to figure out where they were. As it turns out, the company said they didn’t get any online orders for a week because the their internet was down and they didn’t know. And they are a huge company, so it seems they would notice if no one was ordering anything. They shipped late this afternoon and that’s good because we are about three days supply from returning to our Avery label roots.
We have a pallet of Christmas merchandise arriving tomorrow via semi-truck. You know what we don’t have room for? A pallet of Christmas merchandise. But you know what we will need at Christmas? Cute merchandise. It’s a vicious cycle.
We’ve been thinking a bit about our architectural plans for both the Nifong and West stores. There’s not enough storage at Nifong and a lot of space that doesn’t work for storage at West. Thinking ahead to future stores, we need to combine all the things that work the best about both stores. And that’s a project to at least embark on before the start of the busy fall season, wherein I’ll just question the wisdom of even adding more stores.
