The shopfitters are cutting, nailing, sticking and sawing at pace and assure me that they will be finished by Saturday evening ready for the builders and decorators to return for a last whizz round.
Now that the shelving units are in place and we have toilets fixed to the ground rather than wrapped in large sheets of clingfilm, we can begin to see what the new place will look like. We took our staff for a sneak preview and I think it's fair to say that they are energised at the thought of having a new, clean work environment.
With the new place comes some new ideas. We've always tried to stress our personal service, and we'll do that more over the next few months. We have three completely new ranges of product with which I'm personally very pleased, none of which are currently available in the Truro area.
It's a few years since we last had a shopfit, but I recall that then we had some customers who were worried that we would put up our prices to make them pay for it. That won't be the case. If prices go up, it's because prices are going up everywhere. We will have some slightly more expensive lines because we're looking for some high quality products, but we've also been very pleased with the response to our £1 specials and we'll keep those running when we move. (These are items we can sell for a pound or less, which we may not be able to get again at that price.)
If you've walked past The Globe in the past week or so you may well have seen Stuart, Dave and Chris working late into the evening to get it ready. They tell me they're enjoying being in Truro and that they think you'll be impressed by what you see when the doors open. We hope they're right!
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