Store Upgrade, Feb. 09

After visiting some fellow Indies (see blog post below), Todd and I decided to upgrade our in-store image.... more Indie bookstore, less "hey they might sell books"... We took our clearance section shelves and moved them up front, since they were the only cases in the joint that were actually designed for a bookstore. On those cases we doubled our new book featured inventory (more were added after the picture taken), and have most faced front.... the key is that the book cases can be seen as folks are walking up the street from the front side window (there should be little doubt now that we are a bookstore!).

We also took some short A-Frames from the garage, added casters (thanks, Papa!), and are using them to display our Cooking, Art, and a portion of the History section; cases that often got overlooked, and do much better with beautiful covers fronted out. Those A-Frames are movable so that we can host more events inthe Main room of the store (and hopefully get more people to come!). There are also some more table displays in the Main Room, so I can have fun with displaying book themes still :)

We also moved the card rack to the front counter area, for last minute gifty sales.

And we cleared out clearance. We'll have just 2 carts now of clearance and not a long wall... now that we're more "high end" .