What a week!
UPS and FedEx trucks arriving on a daily basis delivering cigars from all corners of the cigar world packed the rear parking lot. Rich Restivo on leave for a few days from his normal shipping job was appointed dock manager and did a stellar job directing traffic. As the cases rolled in they were placed in our storage humidor and the boxes of cigars unpacked, sorted and given a temporary home waiting their final destination in the retail humidor.
Randy Tucker, Dave Graven and Bob Miller underwent an intensive training course from Tara Wilson, of the tech support wing of our POS system supplier and learned how to log those cigars into our data base so that we have an "up to the minute" inventory that can be called upon at any time we choose. SKU numbers had to be generated, bar-code labels printed, and slowly the retail humidor began filling with stock from the storage humidor.
Although our Grand Opening will not be for another month, we decided that it was foolish to let those incredible sticks languish in the humidor and not make them available to the buying public.
Therefore, last Friday night, the first sale was made.
Bob Miller sold a cigar to John Henry. A new milestone had been reached -- our first sale and over month early.
Although work continues in the retail side we will open Third Street Cigars on a daily basis, 1000 to 2200, for cigar sales as well as access to the public lounge, Big Jack's, in the upstairs loft.
Stop out and say hello...
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