My issues with the use of the N logo aside, we are promoting the launch issue of the Something Sweet part series on the lease line as a traffic driver for us.
The floor display unit is terrific – nice and strong and well branded. We expect to sell 120 copies of the launch issue and achieve additional sales to people attracted to the shop as a result of the new traffic.
We asked for 60, received 60, plus another 30 today. WE have sold 11 so far. When I rand about the extra 30 I was told it goes on my sales history !! I found it very amusing as they always use this excuse. I am thinking we wont be participating in Partworks anymore because at the end of the day I will spend my time chasing backorders and ringing about undersupply. Partworks would be great if we could get proper supply levels but both Gotch and Network fail to achieve this nearly 100 % of the time
Murray I spoke to the allocations people for you. They made a mistake with your specific allocation and should have honoured your 60 request.
got 72 on Monday (have sold 3 and have
it out on the entrance of the shop in the
huge outpost provided (I liked it though)
Got another 48 today (straight back as I cannot keep them in their huge boxes in the back room with another 7 boxes of the Disney collection which has just arrived and another 12 cartons of stationery which has also just arrived.
Our backroom is like a long thin (do not try to pass anybody) space with very little storage space and I will not allow boxes to stay on the shop floor so back they go.
If they have our sales data why sent us more with no consultation???????
Thanks Mark, I wish these companies would use sales date like they claim too. I don’t understand why we have to send them sales data to be compliant with XchangeIT but they obviously don’t take any notice of it.
I asked NDC for display bin to put on lease line but unfortunately didn’t receive one.
So I have several unopened boxes making my shop look messy as I have no where to display them (Valentines Day and Disney Promo) and very few sales.
received 96 Mon + 60 today, not over supplied as we usually sellout of cheap intro part works.
but no display bin or any POS display. was told it was all gone already.
I wonder what the criteria to receive one is as I’m emerald and clearly sell alot.
Gary nothing to do with Connections.
We are selling them like hotcakes. They are in a prominent position and are great for Valentines Day. Further to Gary’s comment, it may not be connections but our Bauer Rep had the POS we used for our display, work that out??
June, Can I ask how do you guys survive without any back room storage space? How do card reps process stock, where does any order go before processing. Do you have a back office where you do your work or does it all get done at the counter?
I would not survive without the space I have. I have a storeroom, a safe room (cigs, scratchies and minimal cash held in safe) plus an office.
We have no back room either. All stock on the floor and very limited storage space under fixtures in the shop and high up on the wall.
Wow, so much of my daily life as a newsagent goes through my back office. That is where my main work pc is. Emails, stock entering, xchangeit labels, meetings etc etc all happens in the office. Mag returns, gift, stationery stock etc are all in the storeroom ready for re-stocking. How do you keep a clean and tidy counter? I have seen some newsagencies and their counters are disgusting, not just the counter is on show but what is on display behind is also.
Huge back room here , maybe a waste of rent but hey its somewhere to hide actually I am here right now . Where do you do your returns arrive stock etc even back to school we get a couple of pallet loads in at a time I couldn’t imagine doing that on the front counter while serving
My first newsagency had a big back room. One now has no back room. I appreciate the lack of storage. Everything is done at the counter – arrivals, returns, pricing. I’d note that all business accounting is done off site.
I have a backroom but it is very long and very thin but we have shelves etc and a safe and the main computer (just fits a chair in the front of it and that’s all but we handle our stock quickly and efficiently from the back room benches and the staff at the front counter come to the backroom and get the mags (and gifts etc) and put them up while they are serving.
I think it is more efficient than having staff hiding in the backroom away from the counter.
Likewise we top mags in the backroom but I scan the tops at the front counter (I don’t top there because customers ask what we are doing with the torn off copies and I don’t like them thinking they can have them.