Right.
So we're not doing too bad today.
I've got my stickers up now.
So we only take card and contactless.
Scan to donate towards us.
No dickheads, need a pack.
So I've got this up now, 45.
Dan's built it now.
Look, it's lovely now it's been built.
Now we can't deliver.
Because we're up to our next guys, alright?
Erm... I think I'm in a bit of a knot, depending if we've got any patience.
So we're thinking now, another set like this there as well.
We've got one more of them to go.
And then... jewellery stand this year.
I've got another jewellery stand in the car.
I've got the toilet.
I've got the toilet.
I've got a little old lady who's got another glass cabinet for me.
I've got to go and pick it up tonight.
She's only round the corner, so that's easy.
I can fit shelves in there.
I'm trying to think what we've got that will go in there.
Ooh, heck.
Somebody dropped off a load of bags, thank you.
So these are in here now, so it's just I've got to shift these hangers somewhere now.
I'm not sure if I've shown you this one.
I think I have.
I said about a CD rack, didn't I?
Oh, I bet that'll overhang it a bit now.
And we could get a CD rack there as well, couldn't we?
You know us guys.
Always get our money for value, don't we?
Because glass want to build, but they take a bit of time to build.
And I just measured this for the last bookshelf.
But we haven't got a narrow, we don't think we've got a narrow enough one in Blackwood.
They're quite deep in Blackwood.
And then I want to excavate that then by the weekend.
I've sold that.
The window's being transferred to Pontypool.
Sold the table.
Sold the sleeping bag.
It was a nice sleeping bag too.
It was an army one, proper army one.
What else have I sold?
Oh, a bag.
Bag, bag, bag, bag, bag, bag.
They sell something else?
Oh, a lady coming.
Yes, she's had two children's jackets.
She had a no-face one.
And a no-face and I think a regatta from the boutique children.
So that's lovely.
I mean, they've been sat at Blackwood, haven't they?
You know, no-face.
I've just been sat up on Blackwood doing nothing.
So...
I think there's a lot to be said for stock rotation.
I don't stock rotate.
I'm too busy.
Do you know what I mean?
I mean, between the shops.
I'm too busy to stock rotate.
The only time we get something like this is when we do a move.
But I think there's a lot to be said for it really.
Because there's still people here who don't go to Blackwood.
Or whatever, isn't there?
What's that?
It might come off.
So I think there's a lot to be said for it.
Because I've sold a lot of things here that have been hanging around in Blackwood shop for a while.
So I think even if we just say...
What we could do with now... I mean, we've got racking.
Obviously we need a folklift and pump tracks and hard hats and the rest of it.
But what I think we could do with now is a looping van with a...
And then, because we've got the roll cages, we can...
I could go to, say, Blackwood, or I could go to Pontypool and I could say, right, there's the boxes, there's the crates, girls.
Pack it all up.
Everything in sight.
Into those boxes.
Put it on the trolleys for manual handling.
Wheel it onto the looping van.
Drive, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Drive then to, say, Caerphilly or Blackwood shop.
Wheel it in and say, right, get the crates off.
Where's the crates you've filled up?
Boom.
Straight on there.
Take it back to Pontypool.
Put it on the shelves in Pontypool.
Couldn't we?
Maybe do that, like, at least every six months.
Six months or a year to do a stock rotation.
Maybe.
See, the other charity shops, they put week numbers on them and then after the week are gone, they get rid of.
Slash the price and if they don't go, they get rid of.
But we don't, see, we wait.
And I might be waiting 18 months for that, for six grid.
But it'll go.
It'll go.
Always do.
So...
But I think there's a lot to be said for stock rotation because people still don't know we're here yet.
And, you know, we've had people come in and go, oh, I love that floss, oh, I love that.
Well, that's nice, isn't it?
Oh, I like that.
Well, I've had a few people come and say, well, can you keep all your Elvis for me?
No, no, we can't.
Can you keep all of this for me?
Can you keep all your Coronation Street?
No, I can't.
I'm too busy.
I've got too many customers.
Too many customers that want, collect all the same things you collect, right?
That will pay the price I'm asking for it straight away, like that.
So I cannot hold stuff.
I've got loads as it is.
So I got, I think I've got some of the haunted dolls.
So we say, well, they go, is there?
I don't know how many I've got left.
I'll have a count.
I think we've got them all now.
We didn't do a, we didn't buy any baby food with it because we didn't need it because we had loads donated again.
Because the other food banks, see, when they get a new delivery in, the Trussell Trust and all, they give us a shout if they've got a pile of stuff that they need gone with shorter dates.
So we haven't had to buy any yet, but we'll see how we go now after selling these.
I haven't got the food bank set up down here yet or the nappies, but we will do.
Won't be long now.
Give us a chance.
We got three out of those six shops.
How many shops have we got?
Six?
I think it's six, isn't it?
Six or seven?
Oh, Christ.
We've got three out of those six shops open and two of those six shops, right, are full to the ceiling.
That's why we can't open them.
Right?
They're absolutely full with donations to the ceiling.
So that's not bad.
That's only risk-a-roo that's not opening it.
You know, we've got Blackwood open, we've got Cofiddy open, we've got Pontypool open, and then the donation centre and P2 is full to the brim, literally.
So I think that's good, really.
But I need some volunteers now, guys.
We need volunteers in and I need volunteers that can follow instructions, right, because we have to leave you with a set of instructions to get on with stuff.
When you come in as a volunteer, you'll be cleaning, sorting, organising.
You won't be going through donations and you won't be pricing unless I've left you, like, three crates of stuff and say that's all £3.50.
Clean it and put the price on it.
£3.50, please.
Right?
Suggest you to be aware when you come in because the donations are sorted in another area.
OK, they're weighed so we can prove what's coming in and then every shop weighs them so we can prove what's coming in and then we can prove what's going down there.
When it arrives to the donation centre, we can prove whether anything's been taken out of the bag or anything's been damaged or anything like that.
And then we sort it out and then we cherry pick what goes in more shop.
We're like, well, that'll sell in Caerphilly, that'll sell in Risca, that'll sell in Blackwood.
We rang the one company about a shop today because he's still got an old Cook and Arcright sign on it and when we rang them, they were like, oh, no, no, no.
Don't know what's happening with that shop.
Because he wasn't on their website.
In Blackwood, this is.
And, you know, they think it's Fletcher and Morgan.
Dan was going to ring them.
Otherwise, there's two shops, three shops in Blackwood that haven't got any, you haven't got any signs on them to ring.
So I don't know if you want to check your shop because otherwise you're not going to get anybody in there, do you?
We've posted notes through the door to say, give us a shout.
We're interested in your shop.
But unless you go in there and see the note, you ain't going to know, are you?
And I think if you're with Brinstones, I think you need to...
I'm not saying leave Brinstones, because they were a good company when we signed our contract for Blackwood.
But what I'm saying is, I think you need to speak to them about what they're putting the shops up for.
Because it's unrealistic now, yeah?
They've got the casino is up for like 2,800.
Casino left.
They've got Shoe Zone, I think it is, 1,800.
Shoe Zone left.
You know, River Island is shut in 31 shops.
The Pound Shop is going to ask, they've sold it for a pound, for a pound.
And they're going to ask, I think it was 180, the video's on my page, 180 landlords for free rent.
I'm not even asking for free rent, but if you want to give me free rent, I'll take it, no problem.
Not a problem.
And you can have as much baby stuff as you like.
But like, you know, I can't see them landlords giving them free rent, can I?
I don't know, anyway, I don't know.
Can you give us free rent to save the Pound Shop?
I tried selling stuff for a pound, like it says on the bloody door.
I don't know, guys, I don't know.
I don't know, I think people are just like, it's like the OK Corral out there at the moment, because nobody knows what's happening, like.
And I'm sat there watching everything crumble around people's heads, and I'm like, oh my god, we're still here, we're still here today.
We're still here today, we're still here tomorrow.
We're still here yesterday.
It was quite quick today, but I didn't get into late because the traffic, traffic was bad.
I don't know what it was in Caerphilly, but it was really backed up at about 10, and I thought, oh, it'll be clear now, shoot down here.
And then they got roadworks or something on the Tesco Road this morning.
We did see the signs yesterday, but we didn't clock them, really.
So, right then.
I've got to go, because I've got to get stuff out of the car.
And I've got pasta.
Daniel made some beef Bolognese pasta type thing in the fridge.
I had a funny turn this morning.
I had a, I had a frappe, but I hadn't had a lot of it.
And I think it was too much sugar.
And I had sandwich, cheese and bronstone.
Probably sugar and the bronstone and then white bread.
And it was a bit dry.
So we went into McDonald's to get the frappe, and I had a flatbread, because I couldn't resist.
I thought, oh, I'll have that, I'll give him the other sandwich.
And I had sweet and sour sauce with the flatbread.
And I just like...
I don't know whether it was the sugar content.
I mean, I eat a lot more sugar than anyone go.
But whatever it was, unless it's to do with bread.
Well, no, they did come back and said they didn't have a bread allergy, didn't they?
So, I don't know.
Unless it's something else, maybe.
I don't know.
Oh, I've got to go to the customer.
