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Drowning in incoming consignments? TGtbT.com helps you cope.

Drowning in incoming consignments?

If your resale, thrift or consignment shop is not yet flooded with fall incoming, you soon will be.

How will you cope? It’s easy to get frazzled and forget that your intake process must be as client-centric as your selling processes are. If you’re drowning, it’s tempting to grasp onto anything that looks like it’ll keep you afloat without regard to long-term consequences. For example, some shopkeepers wish they could tape a sign on the door NO MORE ’til I get done with what I got!…but fortunately, they realize that turning away suppliers is bad for business in the long, and the short, run.

I can’t add hours to your day (which is probably what you wish for), but there are some (relatively) simple ways to not drown in a sea of incoming.

Here’s how NOT to cope:

Don't let a sea of incoming take a chunk out of your business.

Don't let a sea of incoming take a chunk out of your business.

Don’t cope by, if you (more…)

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Not everyone is as curious as this catHere’s a past post which is still valid. And a good thing to think about, before the big fall season gets underway at your resale, thrift, or consignment shop. Could it REALLY be this simple? Well, (more…)

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The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings
.

WE should all be as happy as kings.Take, for example, (more…)

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There’s a LOT of work involved in running a consignment, resale, or thrift shop. A lot more than in a “regular” retail store, and it’s harder too, what with the variety of items you receive

(what is it? what’s it worth? where in blue blazes am I going to put it and what do I have to rearrange in order to get it on the selling floor at all?)

THat’s why I was fascinated by this (more…)

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Hire a teen in your consignment shopMany consignment and resale and thrift shops are not at their busiest during the summer. So why consider (more…)

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