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.
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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.
This is the kind of thing that happens with disruptions. Fortunately, we're having a good enough summer to handle it.
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