So I'm in Caerphilly shop today.
It's a lovely ornament.
It'll stay there until somebody buys it or maybe we'll put it out for free one day.
But it's blown my mind how much I sold here in the last couple of days has come from Blackwood shop that maybe we do need to stock with it.
Now the other charity shops do it because obviously the vans that go around when they drop off...
oh there's vans that go around.
See that's old, they say.
The stickers will try and peel off.
So if they take into Barnardo's they'll drop stuff off at Barnardo's and then Barnardo's will say well these three boxes have been here forever can you take it to the next Barnardo's shop please and see if they want it.
We don't do that because we haven't got a van and I'm too busy and I'm too exhausted to even think about rotating stock.
I've stock rotated stuff that's been sat around for a long time in Blackwood shop obviously to come here and it's gone.
And I mean I should have guessed that because it went from big risk at a Blackwood shop didn't it?
When we had the hoo-ha down there and he wouldn't fix the roof and everything was getting wet.
I mean we had no choice down there did we?
We had a five-year lease down there and we had no choice because he wouldn't fix the roof.
The environmentalists were going nuts because he would have broken his best horse and everything was getting damp.
One of my volunteers said to me who's been with me from the start he said to me it blows my mind that we've gone from a garage.
I said we've gone from my drive.
He said we've gone from a garage to all these shops you know.
He said it's nuts.
He hasn't even seen half of those shops because he hasn't been to Pontypool.
He's only just gone up to Blackwood shop to see it and he said that it blows his mind you know.
So I think there is something to be said for stock rotation.
Definitely.
Because obviously there are people from Caerphilly that can't get out of Caerphilly or don't go out of Caerphilly very often to go to our other shops do they?
I think that's something we need to look into in the future.
We have talked about getting a looting van with a... because then I can wheel my roll my roll trolleys.
You know I got my gauges done here with the ones that roll.
Because then I can roll them into Caerphilly shop in a year's time.
Tell the guys to pack everything up tidy that they don't want in the cupboards.
Like if we get a big house clearance in we could say well we'll take all of that out and we can take that to El Cardiff or a Arabic of any store or wherever.
Or back down to Little Riska.
And we can roll the trolleys on to the looting van, raise them up, push them in, drive it off, deliver them to the next shop and wheel them in can't we?
Hey are you alright?
It's all half price.
Yeah yeah we only take card and contactless just for you to be aware.
Only card and contactless?
Yeah it's staff safety it is.
