Oh, sorry guys.
Just had a customer in.
He had £33 of designer vintage and girlfriend has some jewelry as well.
£33 it come to and they had it for £8.37 with the 75% off bargain.
So I'm up here today because I'm covering because Chloe is off and it's the only day the haulage company could pick up the
So I'm thinking of stealing these cabinets often because they're a little bit you know stuck out of it and they don't quite fit in do they?
I might steal them for the new shop.
So Dan and our under 18 volunteers are dealing with that situation.
Hopefully it goes smoothly.
I think I'll relax a little bit more once we've got it.
Well once it's on, once the haulage company picked it up.
Roy tried.
He did try.
He came up with several different ideas like cut it in half and just have 2.5 meters or whatever 2.2 meter racking and just by half of it.
But the reality is half of the racking wouldn't be enough for me.
The reality is I need 4.5 meter racking definitely.
You know we're talking hardhat situation here now.
Roy's like you need a forklift.
I'm like I'll worry about the forklift when we've got a racking.
You know because that racking is going to be full right?
It's going to get full.
And it's a lot of racking.
It's 17 bays.
I'm not sure how many we're going to get in there successfully and be able to maneuver around and get stocked down and all the rest of it.
But I'm not just thinking about this donation center because Daniel made me laugh when he set up the Wi-Fi.
He said yeah I can see this happening now.
So you know the racking may be too much racking for the donation center we've got in Point of Frife.
But it might not be too much racking for the donation center that I'm looking at into a vine.
Okay so and yeah yeah well someday soon I'm quite sure we're going to need a forklift.
We joke about it all the time don't we?
We joke about things all the time like we say oh we're 50% off till next year.
But that's a reality.
It's a reality because well look at the stuff we got.
We've got tons of stuff.
It's crazy.
Tons of stuff and like you know we're 75% off.
It's selling at 75%.
I had a good day in Pontypool yesterday.
Just for the one shop to be open not the two combined.
We're selling but we've what we're selling.
We're getting quadruple the amount of what we're selling back in.
So it never looks like it goes down.
It's just crazy and crazy.
So I think I will relax a bit.
I'm happy we've got a new shop.
It was like oh this is a financial decision I didn't need to make on a Tuesday.
You know really didn't need to make it on a Tuesday.
I'm not at the moment because I was in the middle of buying racking and we got other stuff going on and I'm looking at other shops in Blackwood on the High Street.
Peacock's come across yesterday Daniel Sensa.
They had three customers all day.
Six to nines.
What's that all about?
Oh you're out to six to nines perhaps yeah.
We've got six to nines there.
Jan what are you doing?
You've got six to nines.
This pile of uniform doom is a nightmare.
These are the two boxes I want you guys to fill up now with residual designer stuff.
So if you've got like ten pound items that's been tagged in there or items that would be ten pound.
Dan and Chloe fill these up so that they can start from what you've got stacked up in them bags so they can start ticking over because some people will rummage.
I don't know what I'm saying now.
We've done hangers.
Try to force Jan into work.
What do we do?
Boxes?
I don't know what I'm talking about.
The peacocks come over and they said they only had three customers all day yesterday.
Well I think Dan only had three customers all day yesterday.
I've got to be honest.
He didn't have much more.
I can't get that to stay up.
It's the way it goes sometimes isn't it?
It is a bit like that in retail now.
You can't even say well Wednesday is my busy day.
I'll have to hover now.
Wednesday is my busy day because you can't guarantee Wednesday is going to be busy day anymore.
It's just it is up and down in retail.
I feel sorry for anybody who's running a business for their profit at the moment because well if we were running this for profit we'd have probably gone bankrupt by now.
Honestly.
It's only because I've injected some of my own money into it.
Honestly.
Oh that's nice.
Look at that.
So that'd be £2.50 today.
Look at that.
It's like something Kate Middleton would wear.
Oh that's lovely.
£2.50 that would be.
Look at the sleeves.
Oh I like that.
Got some really nice stuff up here.
Of course I don't see it because it comes it goes gets bagged and comes straight up here.
Look at that.
I love it.
The cat.
I love it.
Where's it from?
Do we know?
No.
It's just small.
There we are with some more bookmarks made up by the OEPs.
OEPs made them lack to help out in their craft class first.
The gift out.
So got a pile of doom there.
Yeah so they came around and they said.
Oh how many customers have you had?
Because we've only had three all day.
Well I think it's awful really and I mean I've had to make the decision.
I've hung on and hung on with this shop.
If I could move this shop down to the high street I'd be happy.
But I have got some issues with this shop.
We have to wait for the electric.
Luckily National Grid fixed the electric for us, right?
For free.
But we have to pay £200 odd to find out what was wrong with the electric.
The landlord wouldn't pay for it.
And then they wanted £800 to fix it.
So that was a bit questionable because National Grid just went and fixed it.
So I don't think it was £800 worth.
Anyway maybe there was things that hadn't been seen by the other person.
I don't know.
I wasn't here.
So we were without electric for a long time in both of these rooms since the snow.
Remember we had the snow?
So anyway.
Daniel can take his temporary lighting down now when he gets five minutes.
So the other issues is that when we came up here we were promised a lot of stuff.
And I won't now.
I'll make sure it's in writing.
Like I said to my new landlord.
I need six months notice to go from this shop.
If you ever want to turn it into a flat take over the shop.
Do something else.
Demolish it.
Whatever you're doing.
I need six months notice written into the agreement.
So I know now.
I've learned.
Don't take a handshake on anything.
Make them write it down.
Because I was promised lots of things up here.
I was promised outdoor space to have our cafe.
And that's what sold it for me really.
Was the the overpass.
You know the overhead thing.
And we could have the free cafe outside.
And also then a separate place to have our big green rails.
Which wouldn't have even come here.
Right?
We had to transport these in a van because they're so big.
Right?
They wouldn't have come in this shop because they're too big.
They'd have gone down the donation center.
Because I could have pulled them out the front.
But these wouldn't have even been here if they hadn't have told me.
I could have had them out the front.
So I would have had to cordon that bit off.
For the cafe and all like they've done down the bottom there in Ian's cafe.
But they told me that.
There were some other things that happened when I signed the contract.
Like they told me that was my personal toilet.
Which I was happy with.
And that I needed to take care of it.
And which you would.
It's your personal toilet.
And I mean, you know, nobody's gonna leave a dirty...
Nobody in their right mind leaves a dirty toilet anyway.
Especially when you've got customers and mothers backing for them.
We do our best, you know.
Any problems with any of our toilets.
Just let us know.
But it wasn't.
It was for the whole block.
So I'm not cleaning the toilet.
I'm putting toilet roll in it.
And paper towels and things.
And soap.
For the whole block.
You know.
There was a couple of things.
There was a couple of things like the rubbish and stuff.
Well I'm paying you to do my rubbish.
There was a couple of things when I came up here I wasn't happy with.
But as you know I stood my ground and I usually get what I want.
But I didn't get the outside space.
Even though environmental health authorized it.
File that.
I think that box is a bit big for your toiletries.
You need something in between I think.
That one's too small and that one's too big isn't it?
But... and then we had the issues of peacocks at the issue.
I almost used them to zest.
Remember?
That awful girl.
You know.
Then the talking shop showed up.
And the footfall increased.
You know the talking shop is going.
You know.
And it's sad really.
It is sad.
But I just don't think we're getting the footfall you know.
I think we needed to get a footing in Blackwell and we did the right thing at the time.
It's all 75% off.
And all the books are in alphabetical order.
I don't want to put them in alphabetical order.
All right?
Give me a shout if you want me.
I think we did the right move at the time.
But I think now we are destined for the high street down there.
There's no way I'd have signed for this shop if I didn't have the outside space right?
That was one of the deal-breakers for me.
This shop has been up for rent since we've been here.
Haven't it?
Yeah.
Talking shop is going.
And I think we want 2,500 a month for that one.
This shop has been empty since we've been here.
This shop they went in and they went straight away because of all the extra additional charges and the toilet stuff and all the rest of it.
The issues with the toilet, you know, come till then clean it and down.
You know.
And then the opticians, that's been empty you know.
I don't know about the court.
This is where we were going to have a look out by you.
And it was authorized.
It's all been authorized by the council.
Oh yeah, they did something there.
The Toe Express, British Jest.
You know.
Is that us?
Or is it Peacocks?
Is that my alarm on my door?
I'll have you.
It's just my alarm.
I don't know where it is.
I don't know about this charge.
I'll see where they're going.
They have quite a few customers, don't they?
But I think the problem we've got is not so much the sales.
Because we gather sales.
If I put a jacket in the window and a quid, 50% off.
It goes.
But it's the volume of stock compared to the sales that we're getting up here.
You know.
So I think we'd be better off down there on the high street.
But the prices for the rents are ridiculous down there.
Because I've been having a look.
And I've spoken to them.
I've spoken to them.
I said, look, come on.
You've seen.
I was excited we've been in this one.
You need to bring your rent prices down down there.
So they're fully aware.
All the people who have got shops for rent, I'm assuming, know down here that we are in the market to move.
I think it's not going to be too hard.
So, you know, it's a shame because it's a nice layout, the shop.
But it's not working at all at the moment.
That's the one I wanted.
It was the Westgate C.
But they wanted 16,000 a year.
And the roof had fallen in.
So I think the brewery took it on in the end.
They probably bought it.
Probably own it.
They need a brewery.
But that is the one that I wanted.
That's the one that I had my eye on.
And then we had this one instead.
So, all right.
Ta-da.
So, yeah, that's the plan, guys.
Now, so if you're a landlord on the high street, I need big.
OK, I need big shop.
I mean, we can adjust.
Are we going to get this size on the high street?
Maybe not.
But this is the other thing.
They're not cleaning up this.
Or they're not preventing it from happening because you can clean it up as much as you like.
The bird is going to keep going, isn't it?
But yeah, this is what we need now, I think, is to be down there on our high street.
It's quite busy down there.
Dawn went round there the other day and she was having a walk around down there.
And to see how many people.
Someone's messed up your box, Dawn.
I don't know where it goes.
I'm afraid to put it back.
Oh, it says Stephen Law.
So it should be under L, shouldn't it?
Where's your Ls?
Peter, that's a W.
Oh, no, that's a... that's different.
That's not a paperback.
So, yeah, I think we'd be better off down there.
Dawn said there was quite a lot of such fall.
She sort of did a quick recce of how many people were going in and out the charity shops down there.
There's quite a few shops open down there.
Empty down there.
But I think that's where we need to be.
Or down...
Well, I'd rather be on the high street, I think, than down by where Sue Ryder is.
You know, Sue Ryder and Bernardo's down by there.
I don't know if there's any units going down there.
I haven't been down there for years.
So I don't know if there's anything free down there.
But the problem we've got is the amount of stuff.
Might be on the racking by this week.
By next week, we might have it up on the racking.
Minus a forklift.
We'd have to lift it up, wouldn't we?
Need two aircraft steps until we get a forklift, wouldn't we?
But imagine that would be so easy now, wouldn't it?
On a pallet.
Put it on.
Job done.
Where am I going to get a forklift from?
I'll get one.
You know us.
We'll manifest one, I'm sure, guys.
I need a pump truck now and a forklift.
And a forklift driver.
There's loads of boys around there with forklifts anyway, so I'm not that worried about it.
I'm sure they'll help us out at some point with some stuff.
They usually do.
Oh, they're nice.
I don't get to see the jewellery until it comes out to see, because my mother does it all.
So we've got some nice jewellery.
Somebody said the other day, oh, I always come to you for my jewellery.
So it sparked me, you see, to start years ago.
Dorothy Perkins was down there in the corner where the...
The playing shop is.
They're lovely in there.
Dorothy Perkins used to be down there.
And I went into Dorothy Perkins and they wanted 12 pounds for a necklace.
And I was like, that's ridiculous.
And then I thought, I'm not buying it because I thought that's just too much.
12 pounds for a necklace is just too much.
Then, you know, I think I was working full time then.
And when I started going into the charity shop, they wanted a pound or two pounds for a necklace.
It was like, well, I can have double.
Well, you know, sometimes you can have 12, can't you, for the same price.
That's one, you know.
You get more for your money when you buy second hand, don't you?
And there's also, it's quite...
Years ago, we used to think, oh, God, I'd never go into a charity shop.
Never go into a charity shop.
But now, vintage clothes, you know, they are quite sought after, the vintage clothes, you know.
So what would that be today?
That'd be 250.
No, five pound that one would be today.
Five pound for one of these jackets.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
This is a nice one over here.
That's lovely.
I don't know who that one is by.
That would be five.
Oh, that's huge.
Look at that.
Oh, I don't think you can see it on there.
I don't know what size that is, but that's big.
He's got two XL on it, but I would say maybe even a three XL on that.
Oh, yes.
My problem is, the books have been going.
They've sold a couple of the first editions, but they've sold more of the three pound fifties.
And these ones we've had in, I've had another set of them in.
That's good, isn't it?
See, that's the thing.
See, we vlog about it online.
And we say, oh, we've got these books in, blah, blah, blah.
And then somebody else goes through the attic, and they say, oh, I've got them books.
You can have them if you can make a couple quid off them to help people.
So you get more in there.
It's good, isn't it?
You know, because otherwise things go in the bin or they sit in the attic and they deteriorate.
You know, or they just never get seen again.
Oh, I just had a notification.
Dan just sent a video.
This is make or break now.
This is, guys, this is going to break my heart if we can't get this racking on this lorry today.
Right.
So I'm going to go now because I want to find out whether we've got the racking.
Once we've got the racking, I don't care because you know us, we make it fit.
We make it work.
Yeah, we do.
We got a fantastic team of volunteers and helpers that just they come in and I'm like, we're going to make this work.
And they're like, OK, let's make it work.
So make or break.
Now, this is guys.
