Year end rejiggering

Please read.  Wow everyone.  What an incredible ride we have been on for the last few months since the store opened.  Our social media presence brought people into Canterbury from a wide berth across the state, you brought your friends too and locally we just have loved hanging out here.   We kept our running shoes on and did a pretty good job but we think we could have done a whole lot better.

Case in point.  This was the frig after Christmas…a whole lot of empty.

We did not anticipate the volume; though we are happy for it!  Our Smoke House can’t keep up with us.  Suppliers are struggling in their own businesses that affects our ability to keep ourselves stocked and many distributors think a little store in Canterbury is not worth paying attention to.  We’ll show ‘em in time.  And we’ll know better in this new year to plan even further ahead.

We need your assistance.

The biggest challenge for us this first quarter is having enough staff.  As our numbers have increased so has our need for more fun people to work behind the counter.  At this point, the store is being throttled [we have so much more planned!] due to staff shortages so we are putting out the call to all of our friends to help us find a “few good men/women” to help carry forth this dream of our country store home.  There is so much more food to prepare and freezers/coolers to fill and artists to create displays for.  We just can’t get to it all without more help.  Please tell everyone to read this call.

Click here to read about what we need.

This was our first quarter (13 weeks) in numbers:

• 25 lbs sugar, 50 lbs flour, 8 dozen eggs, 10 lbs butter, 6 lbs chocolate, 12 cups of fruit in baking each week
• 208 slices of bread, 72 tortilla wraps, 126 eggs, 25 lbs meat, 12 lbs cheese in sandwiches each week
• Average 800 visitors each week
• $10,000.00 sold for our consigned local artists and growers

There is more to report but we will save that for later! You get the idea; we are busy and having so much fun with this!

We love this message from out cherished staff member Sue to potential new staff members…thank you Sue!

Very warmly, your storekeepers Jane and Dave