We are very careful these days when it comes to selling “M” rated games – “M” rated means mature games – that sometimes include violence, nudity and blood/killing. We are careful – not only because it is by law we cannot sell “M” rated games to minor but we cannot in good conscience turn a [...]
Damn it’s been a hot summer so far and it’s barely started! Temperatures have been over 25 celcius already pretty much every day for the last week, but stuff needs to get done regardless of how hot it is. Mowed the lawn, put up the trampoline for the kid, started putting up a [...]
I went out snooping today to see what’s up at Movie Gallery and as suspected they aren’t selling stretchmarks creams. They also don’t have new releases from the last 2 or 3 weeks, the newest they had was The Spy Next Door and Extraordinary Measures. No sign of Alice in Wonderland, Wolfman, Dear [...]
I’ve heard rumors lately that Movie Gallery here in Canada may not be doing too well either despite saying that their Canadian operations will be unaffected by their US stores ALL closing. The one here in town has apparently not had any new releases in the last month. Tonight I called them to see if [...]
It wasn’t completely free if I remember right, but they did cover 75% of the replacement cost. A number of years ago there was a power surge at work and it killed my receipt printer. One of the girls called the power company to complain and they verified that a surge had taken [...]
We received a call from someone asking for tech support for his computer he had just bought a few days ago. Well, of course – we must help if you had bought it a few days ago – hell! even if you caught a virus after a few days – we will still [...]
When your kid goes to a video store and buys a “M” rated game, do you blame it on the video store owners or do you teach your kid not to lie and not to do something you don’t approve of? As a parent myself, I asked myself what i would have done in [...]
Someone suggested a while back that I should order in a few boxes of hockey cards to sell in my store, so I finally got around to doing that. It’s been slow starting, but today we sold about half a box which is very nice to see and I hope it happens more [...]
So even though work hasn’t been overly busy lately, there’s been a lot to do to keep me busy. Trying to rearrange some shelving and hopefully build some new stuff that will make better use of the space we have. Stuff is just piling up and to me it’s like a huge pile [...]
Everytime I read about Japanese gamers.. and how some would die in front of their computer or gaming system, it never failed to leave me flabbergasted. How do one get to this extreme and ignore their health and even their life. Someone that I came to know online was on disability insurance played [...]
I’ve been getting quite a collection of little gadgets building up in my store. Digital cameras, Mp3 players, game systems & controllers and so on. It’s pretty normal for this time of year though, June can be a pretty slow month with lots of people looking to sell stuff, but it turns around [...]
I see they’ve been doing some renovation work on one of the empty stores near where I work, but for the longest time there were no signs up to indicate what was going to be moving in. Earlier in the week when I had to go to the bank I saw they finally had [...]
A while back I bought a new vacuum for the staff to use in the store since we had moved to a new location with carpets instead of just a concrete floor. I didn’t want to spend much on it so I just got one at Zellers for around $65. It worked good, [...]
A number of years ago when I was starting my business I made appointments with the 2 banks I normally deal with. I was planning to buy out the inventory of another store that was closing down but I didn’t have that kind of money laying around of course. It was only $15000, [...]
