Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
22 Aug 2023 6 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey $0.06
As much wine as would fit in the frame Out here in the wild and woolly retail landscape, it’s often unclear whether keeping these incidents to oneself is the right thing to do. You could certainly advance a valid argument that sweeping somethi...
21 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03
Sections 2–18 of the Southside beer empire The last week of the year, Southside and Palmyra both finally hit their magical $100K mark for the first time. Duane is on the floor at both locations, handing out $100 bills as promised to every em...
17 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.04
A mere 1/30th of the Beer Ambassador’s display space. At Southside. This isn’t to suggest that Palmyra has cornered the market on personnel — or personality — struggles. Naturally, after months of relative calm, many of these bombshells just...
14 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.04
mayhem for sale by the ounce Getting a handle on this bulk madness is presumably one of the reasons Duane asked Harry to come up with a list of what each store is carrying. The results were evidently not quite what Duane had in mind, though, f...
10 Aug 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03
C alone is so confusing, it warrants four letters. The eighth column in the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to a simple flag, to mark whether the product in question is packaged or random weight. The number 1 is placed in this column if so,...
7 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
When you open your eyes, you’ll see that life is cubicle. Modern efficiencies can be great, if that saved time is put to good use. This is one of the things Glenda thinks about often, as she’s humming along entering invoices, in her island of...
3 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.07
standard Beer Hipster ambush location Nearly two months after that lone time hanging out together, the night of Dave’s band performance, Brady randomly asks Edgar if he wants to go grab some beers. It’s a Friday at the end of October, and whil...
31 Jul 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03
Organic dust atop some premium wines The personnel nightmares continue unabated at Palmyra, which demand far greater attention than anywhere else. As much as can ever be the case in this high overturn industry, the other two locations remain s...
28 Jul 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.04
Ground zero for many epic yet ridiculous battles “I like Christie, don’t get me wrong. But…” It’s amazing how many conversations start out this way, Edgar’s thinking. As Arnie begins to rant in what amounts to a slightly elevated whisper, up h...
25 Jul 2023 15 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
The emails continue between Edgar and Tonya on a frequent if not daily basis. At no point does he ever mention doing anything socially with her again, nor does she. Until a handful of weeks have gone by and out of the blue it’s 2:30 in the aft...
