smoke shop news: I survived inventory day!
Jul. 6th, 2011 07:46 pmI am at the library, recovering from inventory and the general aggravations of Wednesdays. (Wednesday is the day we get a weekly delivery from one of our biggest distributors -- they sell us everything from cigarettes to loose tobacco to butane to rolling machines to papers/filters/tubes to snacks to candy to paper bags.)
The one upside of inventory day is that everyone is allowed one free drink, and PM buys us all pizza for lunch. So that was nice.
I counted ALL THE BOOKS this year, plus three sections of magazines and some assorted maps. It is my opinion that magazines are worse to count than books -- there is more price point variation -- but not as bad as greeting cards, which are small and fiddly and badly organized and will drive a person almost literally mad. At the moment, the overwhelming mode for mass market paperbacks is $7.99, with $9.99 a strong second. A handful are still priced at $6.99, and $5.99 is either for "special bargain" offers or Westerns. And that's it, at least as far as our selection goes.
Hardcovers and trades are much more variable, though $15.00 was by far the most common price point in our particular selection of trade paperbacks. Children's books, again, are highly variable, not least because children's books come in such a variety of formats.
And now the rain seems to have let up, so I am heading home.
The one upside of inventory day is that everyone is allowed one free drink, and PM buys us all pizza for lunch. So that was nice.
I counted ALL THE BOOKS this year, plus three sections of magazines and some assorted maps. It is my opinion that magazines are worse to count than books -- there is more price point variation -- but not as bad as greeting cards, which are small and fiddly and badly organized and will drive a person almost literally mad. At the moment, the overwhelming mode for mass market paperbacks is $7.99, with $9.99 a strong second. A handful are still priced at $6.99, and $5.99 is either for "special bargain" offers or Westerns. And that's it, at least as far as our selection goes.
Hardcovers and trades are much more variable, though $15.00 was by far the most common price point in our particular selection of trade paperbacks. Children's books, again, are highly variable, not least because children's books come in such a variety of formats.
And now the rain seems to have let up, so I am heading home.