Getting There

03/21/07 06:50 AM | Toil It

The store continues to change and adapt to the new surfaces, spaces and arrangement. The employees continue to adapt to the same thing, while many of the regular customer will walk right by the new camera location on their way back to the older ingrained area like Pavlovian Photographers. I even had one customer stop at one of my rare sojourns in the camera area and say to me, "Hey aren't you in the wrong area, aren't you supposed to be the cameras in the back?" I won't say who that was but he has the same last name as at least one of the Three Stooges. I thought, "There is that keen observational eye that most good photographers have", but said, "I am in cameras, the SLR's are right here behind me, see?" I say a rare sojourn because I've spent more time in the last two weeks moving, lifting, sliding, tilting, unstacking and stacking, stacking and unstacking, arranging and changing than I have in or around cameras, camera sales or camera customers, that's the way it has been for several of us, and of course sales have suffered, and commissions are omissions

for the few who are commission pay based. I thought this would happen, and it looks like it will continue in some for or another even after the rearrangement is final.
Tomorrow after work its home to pack, then bowling. After that we attempt a few hours of sleep then dash down and over to Bristol Tennessee for Nasca r Racing in the fishbowl. Travis and Mike W. are joining Rich and I at the track, and our personal driver John Qualkenbush is driving us there in his motor home. I expect the place to look a little different when we return, but not as much as if we had stayed, since Rich has applied most of the muscle and construction savvy. Not to mention relocating all the hardware. I think most of the changes when we return on Tuesday will be of a location of inventory and equipment nature, with 80% of the grunt work being done, but 20 % of the staff already. The photos above are of Dan the Floor man and Rich's old office corner continuing to evolve. The inevitable change even comes to Roberts, it just had to take the scenic route.
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