Did you make the move? How has it gone for you?
I started selling thru a local storefront about 9 years ago. Every year has gotten way better, and a bonus is tht the store has moved to a bigger/better location 2 times. When I started with them, they were in an old 2 room schoolhouse, they then moved to an old Home Center (about 14,000SF) that had gone out of business , lost mostly to Lowes. Now, last June they moved to a shopping plaza with a huge parking lot and now have almost 50,000SF. They quickly filled that space and my sales have surged along with it. My sales have grown so much that 2 mos ago I cancelled my only online advertising, one that cost me $180 a year. I'm as busy as I can handle (I'm 75 now) I may eventually quit my website, have not yet decided. I guess my biggest issue would be is if the one store I'm in were to go belly up, I would then wish I hadn't "put all of my eggs in one basket".
To sell my syrup there I have every container labeled with: Pure New York State Maple Syrup, Grade, Size, Price and my name and address and my website and email. It is rather easy, but you must restock and straighten up the display as needed. The store I'm in sends a sales report every day about 15-30 minutes after closing, that helps a lot. On my price tags I also have an item number, that number tells me the grade of the syrup and the price tells me the size. That way I know what I need to take in to restock, in fact, my youngest daughter (a mother of 4) has done it for me since just before my original surgery date was postponed.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.