Moving Locations?

So we had the DM in the store today.

Which is always sort of nerve wracking.

Especially with the new DM because well...I've only seen them like 3 times? So I don't quite have a read on their expectations yet.

In any case. I happened to be nearby as they were talking over our reptile endcaps.

Because our store has two endcaps of reptiles instead of one.

And that's like super rare in the pet stores....

And it's kinda been more of a hassle than anything because our reptile supplier isn't providing us with enough animals to fill the cages.

Like...on a good day I still have 3 cages empty.

On bad days?

I could have up to 8 or 9

And considering each side holds like 11 cages.

That's quite the empty endcap we have.

Which part of the problem is that like a third of the cages (8 of them) are dedicated to snakes.

Ball Pythons, Corn Snakes, Milk Snakes, King Snakes.

But for the past 6-8 months...

I've only been able to get Ball Pythons into the store.

Which means those other cages...have sat empty.

There's no word on why we aren't getting them in. 

No known concept on if it's a supplier issue or a shipping issue or something else entirely.

But the point is....our cages are being under utilized. 

So the DM was talking about potential things we could to make room for all the reptiles in one endcap as the Head Manager has requested to corporate that we take the second one out.

And one of the DM's solutions was to put the aquatic turtles in one of the tanks along the fishwall.

Which really makes a lot of sense because customers are always looking for them over by the fishwall anyways. 

So why not put them where they go?

We just need to check out one of our sister stores that have the turtles inline in their fishwalls and see what kind of setup they have so we can do our best to copy their setup.

The main thing the DM cautioned about doing this.

Is to put the turtles in the top row of tanks.

Which I agreed with because the top row has larger tanks than the other two rows of fish.

Bu the DM also said to put them up there because it makes it harder for customers to steal them.

As if they're down on the other two rows (where the tops of the tanks are within reach of the customers) it's easy for the turtles to be stolen from there.

O.o

So yah.

We're going to look into it.

And see how it all goes. ^^;;

-Sarnic Dirchi