Christmas Window Dressing @ Gator Byte 2011
Posted on December 21, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Health, Holidays, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
This year we finally put our heart into dressing up the window for Christmas – we haven’t done so in so many years because of a bad experience. But this year, I have to say that we are finally doing good in every level, from customer based to suppliers to the store hours and of [...]
Read More..>>Christmas Indoor Sale
Posted on December 4, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, Entertainment, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
So we had a Christmas sale at the store yesterday – only yesterday for the entire day – games, console, movies, PC games, children’s games and almost everything were for sale and I’ll have to say this is by far the best christmas sale we’ve had in all our years in business. Magazines and records [...]
Read More..>>Y-12 Lottery
Posted on November 9, 2011 - Filed Under Health, Life, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
So the YMCA started their annual Y-12 Lottery again last week – and the spouse and I contemplated whether we should buy a few tickets this year. We usually buy 3 tickets a year – one for each of us – in support of the Y and been doing it for 12 years now – [...]
Read More..>>Shop Downtown Invitations
Posted on October 28, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, DVD, Entertainment, gaming, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
While people send out Baptism invitations, birthday invitations, wedding invitations, baby shower invitations to us all the time – we are now planning to send us the “shop downtown” invitations to all our customers as well as those residing around Yarmouth. In conjunction with the 250th Anniversary celebration – the town is spending $25, 000 [...]
Read More..>>Gifts For Your Wife
Posted on October 19, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Life, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
A customer came into our store today and asked for recommendations for a gift for his wife. For a moment – I was stunned and after the initial shock I thought I should tell him where to get a real gift for the wife – not that I think his wife wouldn’t like games or [...]
Read More..>>Special Keychains
Posted on October 17, 2011 - Filed Under Business, shopping, This Town | 1 Comment
Many years ago, when I was in Bangkok for vacation – I bought a bunch of gator keychain – to give to customers and employees of the store. For the employees, the gator keychain came with the keys to the store – and the customers – get just the keychain – I don’t know if [...]
Read More..>>Used Laptops for Sale
Posted on September 21, 2011 - Filed Under Business, computers, gadgets, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
I’ve got a few used laptops in stock at the moment, just regular ol’ notebooks, no tablet laptops or netbooks.
One is an HP with a dual core processor, 2 gb RAM, 160gb Hard drive and Vista. The battery doesn’t charge up properly but it works great if you just leave it plugged in. [...]
Love What You Do
Posted on September 14, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
Not many people can say that they loved what they do for a living but I’m the few lucky ones – who loved what I do. We have kids and adults coming into the store and telling us what a cool store we have – a little of everything and lots of toys and games [...]
Read More..>>Cellphone @ The Store
Posted on August 19, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Electronics, gadgets, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
I would love to go into the cellphone business – but there are so many models – I just can’t keep up with it – and I know very little about it. Besides the iphones – I don’t know anything about the latest Atrix – that just came into the store a few minutes ago. [...]
Read More..>>Pawn Stars
Posted on August 16, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, gadgets, Life, shopping, TV | Leave a Comment
We are not a pawn shop but after watching pawn stars – we can relate to them – and their customers. While Rick, his old man and son – Big Huss (Corey) is trying to make a living – some customers calls them a rip off – just because they can only offer them a [...]
Read More..>>12 Years In Business
Posted on August 12, 2011 - Filed Under Amused, Business, kids, Life, shopping, This Town | 1 Comment
Our store’s anniversary is just round the corner – we headed up to L&N signs to check out on the t-shirts that I wanted to print for myself, the spouse and the kid – and maybe a few more for our regular customers. L & N signs has worked with us for many years – [...]
Read More..>>Jewelry
Posted on August 4, 2011 - Filed Under Business, sellers, shopping, This Town | Leave a Comment
Many people come into our store to sell us jewelry – unfortunately, we don’t take them – because we don’t know the difference between the titanium rings or a platinum rings even if my life depended on it. So how can we deal with something that we are not even sure of ourselves. As much [...]
Read More..>>Summer Road Trips
Posted on July 11, 2011 - Filed Under Business, Finances, Life, shopping, Travel | Leave a Comment
Our extended family was down from Ontario for a visit with their RV – and they were down in Hectanooga at their lodge last weekend. This is a new RV that they had bought last year when rv financing was at its best rate – I too was tempted to get one – but because [...]
Read More..>>A Gift From A Customer
Posted on July 9, 2011 - Filed Under Business, kids, Life, shopping | Leave a Comment
My daughter – Chloe is a very lucky kid ! she gets all sorts of gift from out customers – but having said that we have lots of good customers albeit the fact that we do get a few bad ones. Today a long time customer of ours brought in some silver dollars for Chloe [...]
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