So our sales are going through well in Blackwood.
It's a miserable day.
What day is it?
Is it Friday?
Friday is one of our busiest days because it's market day.
Well it was Thursday and we today.
I think it's Thursday.
So Thursday is not a bad start to a Thursday.
We did 34 yesterday.
There's no card numbers on ya.
Only the transaction numbers.
And that's the test one that they did, that the fella did for us.
So that was about halfway through the day.
We'd already done about 103.
Do you have 103 or 130?
Because yeah I can't remember.
Something like that.
And then we did another 34 on top.
So that's been paid through.
So this is today.
So Blackwood is ticking over.
It's a little bit slower than usual.
But then the weather's not with us today.
I think tomorrow's a better day.
There's been lots of customers here buying food.
So I think that's going to be good for us down here.
Because that's, you know, got extra customers coming in.
It's just today we're just... I'm just too busy at the back.
So keep an eye on the front, you know.
And keep stopping.
I can't get on to Pontypools.
Because Pontypools will be on a different thread.
This is Blackwoods thread.
This one by here.
But I just thought I'd show you how it works.
So that's good.
It lets us know as well without me logging into CCTV.
Because I don't want to be monitoring staff on CCTV.
I'm so busy.
And it's not very nice to think you're being monitored by your boss every five seconds.
But I know staff are in.
Because somebody's taking money.
So it could be anybody.
But somebody's taking money in there.
So that's great.
It's going well.
The feedback from Blackwood is everybody's pleased that we've gone to card payments.
So that's brilliant I think.
Absolutely brilliant.
The only bummer is that it's minimum £1 spend.
And we start at 50p to me our prices.
So that's a bummer.
We didn't know that when we signed up.
And the guy just assumed you know pound would be minimum in our shop.
But we're not going to put it you know 50p items up to whatever.
We'll sort it out.
We can always sort something out can't we?
So that's brilliant.
That is going well.
And there's no... the reason we've done this is because obviously you know it protects the staff.
It protects the customer.
It protects the profits that's going into our charity pending.
It protects us.
You know because although I've had to ring the police and I've let Trading Standards know as well now there's been another theft from the till.
You know at some stage they're going to pull us in all in and say right well what's going on here?
All this theft coming out the till.
We can't keep having the police to deal with things like that.
They do out now to pick up the books to go through them themselves.
I think she's coming today.
And they'll just email Trading Standards their findings.
We've gone through it three or four times and we've all come to the same figure.
So you know this is why we've done it.
So thank you very much for everybody supporting us.
It also means my mother.
I haven't got to do the banking and everything.
So that frees her up to do some more work.
I told her make some more jewelry or something.
Oh look there's more customers coming over now to the burger van.
Oh god this is just ideal spot for us by year and a fair play.
