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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...
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...
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...
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...
18 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
D1 Both in size and appearance, Liberty Avenue more closely resembles your average, single proprietor owned, charming little convenience store more than it does an all-natural market. And moving in the c...
15 May 2023 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
C1 Southside opened almost exactly three years ago, and is without question the current prize jewel of this operation. The previous occupant was apparently a Harris Teeter where, reputable sources insist, a store manager was shot t...
11 May 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The job sounds straightforward enough. They are a tiny chain of three retail outlets, specializing in natural and locally sourced products, for health minded individuals. Though Bellwether Snacks owns them, these stores have relatively complete auto...
10 May 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Everything was cool up until the summer that Liberty Avenue closed. More specifically the morning where it first occurred to many of them that maybe this company was no longer on the upswing. Their acting owner has just called a meeting, to announce...
