Morning, guys.
I've been a bit busy this morning.
Anyway, loads to do, loads to do.
We could do with volunteers in every shop, but I think Pontypool is closing at four.
Risca Rule will be four, four thirty closing.
This one I'm not 100% sure.
I'll see how I go.
Because I have... I've still got pricing to do, and I've still got sorting to do, and I've also got a few online things I wanted to do.
Like I want to get the giveaways sorted, because I've still got giveaways, you know, and I can't get them done because I'm so busy moving stock and pricing stock.
24 cents.
So I need... we now need people to come in and run Risca and run this shop, and we need volunteers in.
Sammy also needs help because Pontypool is so big.
She does a fab job as it is, you know that,
but...
I think you just went the wrong way.
I think you went up the one-way street.
I don't know if you noticed.
There's a lot of people go down the wrong way.
It is a bit confusing, especially when you're sat down.
It's confusing.
Because it says turn left, turn left, turn right, turn right on the one way.
That's the only Halloween bit I got in so far.
Oh no, it isn't.
I've got... I've got outfits.
I'm gonna sort them out.
That's what I was gonna do this morning.
Get the Halloween outfits out.
But it's getting to the point now where I can't do all the stuff that we need to do on social media, bearing in mind we're paid for social media.
I paid for one of the rents last month.
What's this lovely thing?
Tent.
Tent or something, is it?
Looks like.
Of course I can't do it because I'm permanently in the shops doing other stuff.
So that's why we need someone to come in now.
Open up early and run this shop.
Volunteers.
We only need about two or three in this shop.
Maximum a day, right?
Because if you've got any more than that, there's too many bodies in you and you've got customers and it puts customers off with the stock and everything else.
And Risca two to three maximum.
And to be honest Risca is very small.
So if you've got customers and you need to step out the back or step out the front and have a little walk about and have a look around what's going on elsewhere, maybe we say just two in Risca at a time.
Because it is a lot smaller than this one.
I mean we've got quite a bit in this shop, haven't we?
Fair play.
Fair play.
Yes, so that's where we're at with that.
But I've got stuff that I need to do.
I've got companies I need to contact.
I can't do it because I'm permanently in the shops.
Permanently in the shops sorting stuff.
You know, which is my favourite bit to do.
So I don't want to be sat at a computer all day emailing people and taking all the credit for everything.
I don't want to do that.
This is what I like doing.
Don't forget all our computer... I have no chance to write them and I need a picture of them online.
They're all a pound.
I need them gone.
Okay, we've got tons of computer games coming in.
Absolute tons.
I don't think there's any in Risca But if they are, show him the post and he will do the same.
Because if they're in Risca, they're not new.
So they've been there a while.
I just haven't seen them.
So he will take them down.
Lady said, why are your CDs so expensive?
I said, well, because we've got such good titles.
Not all the shops got the titles we got.
I know we get people from Caldecott, Cardiff, coming down to go through our CDs and our music collection and our records, right?
So I know for a fact we have good music.
They are put through a cleaner in the house.
So they go through one of those discs.
My parents do their best.
They do listen to them.
I had to make sure there's no jumping or skipping.
But obviously they can't look at every single one of them.
We're on 75% off.
So it will only be £1.25.
So you're paying much more than any other charity shop.
And they're all sealed in their container.
So nobody's going to scratch them or scratch them since they've been worked.
And they're all guaranteed.
Okay?
A lot of other places don't guarantee.
Don't take your sticker off.
Bring it back and we swap it for another one.
Any problems?
No questions asked.
Okay?
But we have some really, really good ones.
That would be £1.25 today.
You know, what price would you put on music?
Because I wouldn't put a price on music.
If it's a song or an album or something that I want, right?
Then I don't care what I pay for it.
Okay?
So she's gone through all of these.
We have got spare cases in the shop because although they check the cases when they do them that they're not broken, obviously once they come into the shop they could get broken.
Oh, there's another bit.
Keep dropping it.
He's free because there's one bit missing anyway but I've dropped the other bits now.
Drop those two.
Round just somewhere.
By here I dropped them so I'm sure I'll find it.
What was I saying?
Oh yeah, so the cases could get damaged once they're in the shops, you know, because they're piled but if they're on a CD rack, it's not too bad is it?
But there we go.
Here we are.
So we need to increase the footfall.
So can you share our posts, guys?
But can you turn the comments and commenting off?
Otherwise you'll get the idiots commenting all the time and bothering us and doing all the rest of the stuff, you know, where they're like and bothering you.
So it's easier to just turn the comments off and if anybody got a query, I get loads of messages coming through saying, oh I couldn't comment on your post but I've got this to drop off or I've got... do you take this?
Or have you got any of this?
Or how does it work?
Or I need appies?
Can you help?
You know, I get the messages.
So don't worry, if people need to contact us, they will.
And if anybody contacts you and say, oh I'm trying to contact the baby bank but I can't get on the post, just say to them, that's okay.
I'll let Jane know now that you were trying to contact her.
Okay, so don't worry about that, guys.
Nice today.
Not as sunny as yesterday.
But it's fairly nice, isn't it?
No, I'm talking to you on the video.
Anybody who'll listen.
Anybody who'll listen.
Ah, they're lovely next door, fair play.
Fair play.
We've had some nice neighbors as we go along but we had one or two bad ones, you know, because we fall as we spray.
We've had some people before in the past say, Pontypool smells.
Well, Pontypool is like over like a million years old.
Do you know what I mean?
It's got 1829 on the door.
Right?
It's gonna smell.
You know, it's an old, old building.
Pontypool is very old, okay?
I like strong smells so don't come in if I'm spraying because you'll have an asthma attack.
But yes, charity shops and second-hand shops do smell.
They do smell, okay?
They have got a particular smell to them, you know that.
And unfortunately, we're working with a very old, very damp shop in Pontypool.
But we chose to take it on.
And I think people are pleased with the fact that other businesses and not-for-profits and charity things are taking on shops in Pontypool because we need to keep it alive.
Yeah, if it wasn't for us, you know, the mothers would be going to come down, wouldn't they?
Because that's where they're gonna get their baby stuff from.
If they don't come to us.
This is a nice one, this.
I think I had it from Saver.
It's a nice one.
I like strong smells.
So when I spray, I go for it.
Like, or sometimes like we get a perfume in that we only get like a couple of quid.
But it's strong.
You know, there's only a bit in there.
Perhaps somebody has sent it in.
And then we spray that around as well.
That's nice.
Spray it onto the clothes and what have you.
But yes, it's a very old shop.
It's going to smell.
It has damp because it's old and antique.
You know, stuff that comes in is old and antique.
If you appreciated old architecture, you would appreciate that.
I could get a brand new shop.
I could get a brand new shop across the road.
Go into Poundland, go into farm foods.
I could do all of that today.
But then that means your price has got to go up.
Because the landlords have given us a very competitive price for Pontypool.
And they've done that because of the work we do.
And because of the condition of shop.
So if you wanted me to get a better condition shop in Pontypool, I can do it.
But it's going to be at your cost.
And is that what you want?
Would you rather me have a cheaper shop that is, you know, antiquated?
And we use it?
Or do you want a brand new shop and pay more money?
And you're talking megabucks then because you're talking like 15 to 20,000 a year they want.
Whereas they don't want that in Pontypool shop because they appreciate the fact that it is in a poorer condition than other shops in the area.
And we've done well.
We've done really well anyway with that shop to try and dry it out and clean it up and paint it.
I've got this shoe but I can only find one.
It's just a shame because it's a nice one.
And then I got a pile of Halloween.
And I think they're adult.
So I'm going to get those up now.
Don't forget you need fire labels in your Halloween clothes, guys.
Okay.
I'm going to try and get these up on hangers.
So we can get them sold.
Okay.
But yes, I need volunteers now and I need somebody opening up this shop and risk a shop on a regular basis, please.
Because we're just we can't get in the donation center to work the rest of the donations because we're here 24 seven.
So,
you know, which is what I like.
I like being here.
It's a nice little shop.
But we have got other stuff to do.
You know, we've got a bigger picture we got to look at now.