Weather – Fine
More painting today. We’ve been doing a lot of prep work and priming and now we’ve started putting on the first coat of some of the finish colors. We can see the big improvement in the looks of the buildings. The new corporate colors are really attention getters and make the buildings much more attractive. It makes the old colors look pretty ugly.
Mike, one of our supervisors putting on the new blue.
Inside of ReStore - Miscellaneous household items building.
Inside the furniture building.
Joan and Mike painting the main ReStore entrance.
Shirley still rock and rolling.
As we’ve been working there has been a steady stream of customers in and out of the ReStore. They claim that sales are down some because of the economy and the sprucing up of the buildings is hoped to attract more customers and sales. In addition a consultant is helping to study what types of inventory sells best and the potential to increase income through inventory controls. Warren Jack the ED here was explaining that the Hamilton affiliate ReStore has become a model of ReStore operations here in New Zealand with steady day to day sales and produces income probably higher than Auckland’s. Warren says the Auckland ReStore operation tends to have peaks and valleys in sales and they would like to level it out and produce a more steady income flow.
The ReStore here does have an incredible amount of inventory of materials for sale. They have everything from household items to construction materials including windows, doors, kitchen cabinets, appliances, etc. Some of our activities have included doing inventory, sorting and discarding items that have not sold and probably never will. Numerous dumpsters have been filled.
Joan and Joyce have spent a couple of days in the book room sorting books and magazines and categorizing them. Hopefully customers can look in one area for books of particular interest.
Another great day.
Kiwi Word of the Day: Pot Plant – Potted plant (not marijuana!_
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