We're getting 14 large boxes of graphic novels today.
What the hell?
So we've been humming along with small orders for a couple of months while sales have been good. Making a decent profit for once. Then BAM!
So this was basically 6 times our normal week's total. In other words, a month in a half worth of orders in one week. Some of it was apparently normally ordered stuff that was building up--without us being completely aware--over the last couple of months. Some of it was a large order Sabrina made of Image graphic novels on sale.
But it obviously got away from us.
So a large chunk of the profits we made over the summer are going out the door in the next week.
Oh, well. I literally turned to Linda last week and said, "This is going too well. Something's going to happen."
We're in terrific shape. And we will be well-stocked, to say the least. Over the next year or so, we'll profit from this order. But damn it it wasn't a cash-flow demolition. We're still coming out of this summer in better shape than we've ever been.
Unless there's something else coming down the road.
Just opening the boxes and counting them took half a day. Over 450 graphic novels in one fell swoop. Cost of about a month and a half of normal orders. It'll take days to get them stocked.
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of thing that happens with disruptions. Fortunately, we're having a good enough summer to handle it.