Christmas came upon us quickly and now it's passed. It was absolute mayhem here trying to get everyone their items before Christmas. We'd made a resolution last year to not allow the Christmas rush to keep us from enjoying all the things about the season that we normally would with our children and this year we did a better job being aware than we did last year.
We had real problems with getting resupplied in a timely manner this season which put a lot of stress on the operation. We've learned some things and hopefully our suppliers used the opportunity to learn some things as well so that next season we don't have a repeat of these issues. It limited our business but we're looking forward to next year to see how things can shape up when the wrinkles are ironed out.
We really need to look into better ways to manage inventory across different platforms. Hours each day from late October to late December are dedicated to just reconciling inventory across all the platforms we have products available on. We're confident that there's a better way to do things but we just aren't aware of what it could be yet. If any of you have some suggestions for software or other solutions, by all means make contact and let us know because we something has got to give.
We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We're looking forward to what the new year will bring. We'll say again, we're determined to update this blog with more regularity than we have. Let's see what happens!