Right back at you. Something of our progress.
Well, I’m back the same day.
After a small but important meeting here, we decided to say here, up front, that with the new method of selecting product, it is not too probable that we will be up and running by the end of the month. In the past we had programs which simply dumped the large quantity of products of our suppliers onto the system, with whatever, if any, description and photo. We are now selecting each product and, although we certainly cannot say that we TEST each product, at least we make selections based on the supplier, the cost, the photo, and the description, which we hope will keep out the thousands of trivial products of the past. We’d like to have a minimum of 1000 high quality, selected products in the store. After we are open, we will continue to improve the selection.
Well, the selection process is very slow, although it is picking up speed. As we find impediments to a rapid decision and installation, we are programming support software to speed it up. We actually started a couple of days ago, with ZERO products in the store, and have passed 100 at this time. It looks like we can search out, evaluate, price, assure we have photo, categorize, and send to the server about 25 to 35 a day with one person working full time. Before we are ready to open, that will probably climb to around 50, so…. maybe we will be a little late. Please hang in there with us.
Thanks again for your interest in our products and our store.
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