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Where Do We Put This Stuff?
September 21, 2007

As the heat vapors begin to vanish and crisp autumn breezes take their place, a new season's merchandise begins trickling into our stores.  As the winter product arrives, customers still come in asking for swim diapers and such.  We're on the cusp of the dead heat of summer and our mild (yet festive) winter.  Our summer merchandise still has a few weeks on the shelves.  Our winter merchandise is beginning to need a designated place in the store.  I would imagine that we're not the only ones with limited floor space.  In fact, floor space is so valuable that even larger stores may deal with space issues on some level.  So, the question is... Where do we put this stuff?

The overlap of seasons has always been a time of cramming things into tighter-than-normal spaces.  It's much like inventory time when we have most everything out on the floor all at once.  Of course, at the end of the season, we reduce prices to move old stock and make room for new.  There is always, though, just enough stuff to take up that valuable shelf space!  It's such a short time that this overlap exists but it's long enough for me to write about.  Not long enough to write too much about, though...

Posted by Kelly Nelson on September 21, 2007 | Comments (0)