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10 Jul 2023 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The sixth and seventh columns of the new items spreadsheet are dedicated to cost and retail, respectively. Cost obviously doesn't appear on their shelf tags, and there's nothing they are doing within the Orchestra system that involves these numbers...
6 Jul 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Liberty Avenue remains his least investigated outpost thus far, for obvious, business related reasons. Though in many respects still his favorite to visit, because it is so chill, there’s not enough going on to justify driving over there more th...
29 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
He hates to see Dolly go. She was one of his earliest and most vocal champions, and this isn't something he takes lightly, or will ever forget. Also, as a sidebar, it's worth noting that she was continually trying to hook Edgar up with her daughter,...
26 Jun 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Once a week, after going through the invoices, Edgar emails the department managers, spelling out what they could have ordered cheaper elsewhere, and/or should have for possibly some other reason, like quality. The vendor and the item number are aft...
22 Jun 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Would that 4 Hour Workweek guy recommend spending a ton of one’s time on the phone? Glenda Jackson seriously doubts it. As the current accounts payable person for Healthy Hippie Market, fully hemmed in up here at the Bellwether Snacks headquarters –...
19 Jun 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The Hobart ScaleMonster program is Edgar's clunky if just barely passable portal into adding and editing items on the deli and produce scales, at Southside and Palmyra both. While Liberty does have one all-purpose scale in back that everyone uses, i...
15 Jun 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The fifth column on the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to package size. While not nearly the headache represented by brand names, these also need to be uniform. You couldn't spell out ounce half the time but abbreviate it to oz the rest; similar...
12 Jun 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Edgar wouldn’t say he’s gotten to know Christie extremely well just yet. They are on friendly enough terms, however, to chat briefly in passing about even non-business related matters. Or for him to become her desperation last resort when, as the da...
8 Jun 2023 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Even though rumors are swirling that Palmyra’s butcher, Nick, is on the hot seat, for some reason they hire one of his closest friends, Scott, as Southside’s meat cutter. Nick has been talking him up for months and they finally decided to pull the t...
5 Jun 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The fourth column in the new items spreadsheet is dedicated to brand name. A seemingly straightforward concept which is nonetheless much more labor intensive than he ever would have guessed. Having uniform brand names for every product in a line is...
