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"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - C3

3 Jul 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Still, there is one aspect missing thus far from his repertoire with the Healthy Hippie Market, somehow, even eight months into this experience. And it will take the Palmyra crew to begin resolving this oversight, however indirectly. When word begin...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - B3

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,...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - A2

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 –...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - L1

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...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - K1

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...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - I1

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...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - H1

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...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - G1

2 Jun 2023 6 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

“He’s almost eighty now, but he’s got a mind like a calculator,” Duane tells Edgar, en route to the Bellwether Snacks headquarters, “and he still works, too: two days a week, like clockwork. You can count on it.”             This trip across town wa...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - F1

29 May 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Though its weekly sales amount to roughly half of what each of the other two are pulling in, one oddly colored feather in Liberty’s cap is that it is nonetheless the most profitable store. Palmyra and Southside both appear to be rising ships, with s...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - E1

25 May 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

One of Teri’s first key lessons for him concerns the addition of new items to their computer system. Months earlier, when they first began installing this Orchestra software, she arranged a blank Excel template twelve columns wide, sent this to all...