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| + | Getting thrifty with thrift store manager<br><br>For many thrift store customers, shopping is the thrill of the hunt. For others,chaussures nike tn, thrift store shopping is pure necessity. For Alicia McMurtrie, managing the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store on Ardmore Trail in South Bend is all about getting the products for shoppers sorted, on the shelves and back out the door. How long have you been associated with the St. Vincent de Paul Society? I have been employed for 31 years (in the current position, store manager) about 25 years. I had worked for a couple of discount retail stores, and (during) my last position, the business closed so I was looking for a job, went to the employment office and they sent me to St. Vincent de Paul for an interview for a cashier position. So I started as a cashier, moved up to head cashier and then they created a position that was called production supervisor. And I was responsible for not only the front end, which in some businesses might be third assistant, then I was made the assistant manager and then store manager. So you are apparently good at the managing aspects. I think I work well with people, and I think that's pretty much what managing is. The biggest part of it is getting people to do something,air jordan 3, perhaps, they don't want to do and letting them know that there is a reason they need to do it,air max tn pas cher, they are fulfilling something within the organization, and you know, that they are key individuals. So you are self taught? Yes, I am. But I am quick learning, and I have been told that people teach me and I don't realize I am learning. College degree? No, I do not, not a business degree. Went to high school in this area (Riley), did some continuing education, I took some classes at Ivy Tech, I took some classes at IU,christian louboutin sale, I took a continuing education class at Notre Dame. But no formal degree. Is the thrift store industry a growing industry? Well, yes and no. I know that is kind of an odd answer. There is so much competition out there. EBay, Internet,tn pas cher, cash in the attic shows. It creates more competition because for a thrift store shopper, you have to have something that entices them to come in. So if they have less donations,air max tn, it means you have less shoppers. They go, 'Aw, there's never anything at St. Vincent's',air jordan 6, or they go,tn france, 'Let's not go this week. I was there four days ago and it didn't look like they had anything,' even though inventory rotates daily, hourly. I mean we have a huge turnover in inventory . You get a few quality items but not like we used to. People, like with the 'Antiques Roadshow,' people think everything they have is worth a million dollars and it's that rare antique, so they are looking for that avenue to dispose of it before they donate. Which, when I first started, I mean it was you had the beginning of garage sales back in the early '70s, and they weren't as popular as they are now, very few consignment shops. How do you sort donations? Everything that comes in the thrift store is processed. Everything is given a quick presort to try to break it down into soft line items, which is like clothing items opposed to the toys, seasonal items. Being a retail operation, we want to put out our seasonal items, the holiday items. We are saving all of our Christmas, Halloween and Fourth of July back now. It looks very daunting (looking at the warehouse full of boxes and stacks of items), but on an average a sorter can get about 1,600 pounds a day sorted. Anything that is trash, we take out there and dump in the trash. Do you get a lot of broken or damaged donated goods? I would say roughly 40 percent of what we get in is not usable for us, for our purpose. That's a huge amount, and I think the other agencies probably say the same thing. You get a lot of trash, unfortunately. We have drop boxes in the community, and people leave things there, outside. Maybe it was a nice sofa when it was set out there, but when it gets rained on, it is of no value, or if somebody from the neighborhood comes by and takes the cushions off of it or if it gets damaged. How do you stay competitive? That's a good question. You have your conscious decisions that you make as far as your business plan, but it's tough when eBay shopping became so popular. I have been told that due to eBay shopping, it has started to drop some of the prices in antiques, and that slightly affects us. We don't get near the collectibles and antiques that we used to 20 years ago because people are more savvy. They want to maximize the potential of what they have same as we want to maximize the potential of that donation as much as I can. To do that,air jordan 7, you have to research,nike tn, you have to see what you have, you have to see what the dollar value is in our community as opposed to in another community. There's a lot of research that is done these days in resale. And that's how you come up with pricing. We have a general price guidelines for your standard clothing, which is what we have the most of, and your miscellaneous. It seems like the cost of clothing at thrift stores is going up. What's to entice me, as a customer, to buy a pair of pants for an 8 year old child for $4 when I can go to a discount store and buy a pair of pants brand new for $5? And that's the challenge for us. We have to keep our prices competitive because people will shop Wal Mart, Meijer, Value City. And now, there's so many new stores opening up offering clothing at a very reduced priced. And then,longchamps sac, even a lot of the superstores made a difference in thrift pricing, also. What are some of the more unique items that have been donated? Over the years we have gotten some of the weirdest things. We had a dentist . he was a one chair dental operation, who donated his dental chair, his X ray machine. We had a barbershop that donated everything from the barbershop, including the marble walls. What did you do with it? A little at a time, we sold it. You put it out a few pieces at a time. Even the barber pole; we had a guy who was just delighted to get the barber pole. We've had people who have donated land, donated their homes, donated mobile homes. We've had mausoleums donated,basket nike, grave sites, boats, cars, and with the new tax laws changing for auto donation, it's really decreased the amount of autos that have been donated to us. But here in the last month, we've had two Mercedes donated to us. What do you do with them? We sell them here. We are a licensed dealer for the state of Indiana. A number of years ago, we had a gentleman who walked through the front door, asked to see the manager, and he said, "I have had a lifestyle change and I want to make a donation," and he donated nine men's diamond rings. Coming next week: Poking holes in Western medicine相关的主题文章： | ||
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A major incident has been avoided, Mr. Kumar said. He said though it was too early to know the cause of the fire, the traders burnt heaps of rubbish near their shops, and there might be a possibility that a spark would have caught onto something and caused the flare. This is the third incident of fire in the district this week, following a major flare in a similarly congested Valiyangadi and a second one at Elathur. | A major incident has been avoided, Mr. Kumar said. He said though it was too early to know the cause of the fire, the traders burnt heaps of rubbish near their shops, and there might be a possibility that a spark would have caught onto something and caused the flare. This is the third incident of fire in the district this week, following a major flare in a similarly congested Valiyangadi and a second one at Elathur. | ||
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