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"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - J5

28 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Health & Beauty for hearty wholesome hippies   They begin moving into the Walnut location on the first, which gives them a month to get this operation up and running. Under normal circumstances, this would be nowhere near enough time, but unlike...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - I5

27 Aug 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Cut in someone’s house, perhaps, but not this one.   As they begin moving into the Walnut location, it makes perfect sense to roll this into a company-wide rearrangement. Palmyra’s produce manager, Johnny, has requested a transfer to work in W...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - H5

25 Aug 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

site of the latest price related intrigue   Some conspiracy theory type cashier, a thirtysomething dude that’s been with the company for maybe three weeks, sticks a post-it note to the monitor up in Palmyra’s office which reads, Friends: be care...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - G5

24 Aug 2023 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  It’s strange how certain topics get lofted into the air, and begin to catch fire due to their momentum, when you’ve mentioned your own recent preoccupation with them to no one. Of course, skeptics will claim that it’s only because you are cu...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - F5

23 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Healthy Shopper Market’s quasi-mountain outpost   Walnut is a city of approximately 40,000, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The interstate neatly cleaves it into two distinct sections, one of which is modern and heavy wit...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - E5

22 Aug 2023 6 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

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...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - D5

21 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

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...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - C5

17 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

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...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - B5

14 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

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...

“Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” — A5

10 Aug 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

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,...