The Grand Opening

Well the Grand Opening of the Windsor Vermont Mercantile was a success! There was a steady flow of traffic all day with a lot of positive feedback and excitement of the prospects of having a real store in Windsor. Mike did what he does really well (sell things) and wowed my brothers sufficiently which was fun to see. Although, the shelves (and there are many many many) are still not fully stocked and there will be a lot of work seeing what fits and what to get in, they had a great first day. Now the hard work begins...advertising and keeping people coming and and buying! Vermont has a real history of General Stores and this building was originally a Dry Goods Store in the 1800s so there is some serious history and General Store Karma going on here. Featured are all the originally shelves, the cash cage ( a space up above where they could see the whole space, the original register (sorry no picture) and even the original ledger (handwritten with the accounts) so needless to say it is quite an exciting space and people can feel and see that. My brothers and sisters in law ( and many other willing friends) did a fantastic job getting it ready and we went straight there last night after stepping off the plane to do what we could. There was some great feedback from some of the Swanndri and Chalky Digits (NZ brands we brought over) and Mike had fun chatting to people about them. So we will see where it goes from here. There is a lot of work ahead of us but its exciting to be settling in after so many months of wandering but also quite weird for us both (especially Mike) but he had a great day and I even picked up my first potential graphic design client (thanks to McKay) today while randomly chatting to a woman so things bode well for things here in Windsor if we can just get used to this -10 degee Celcius weather....brrrrrrrr.