Everyone's on manual labor while I'm on digital labor. We're trying to get the basics set up for online retail doors opening up on February 1. I have a few more photos dumped from my camera here for you. Thanks for following along with our adventure to build something in skateboarding from the ground up.
Deck the Halls and Stain the Walls: Construction Continues at HQ
Published 1/19/2014 by Rob Meronek
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Seeing Ryan Clements paint makes me wonder what kind of drawing skills he has. I don't think I've ever seen him try to draw something.
This is the view as seen from the future shoe wall into the back of the store. We'll box up online orders back there with the backstock warehouse being right behind that. As you may have seen by our custom inventory management system development, it's going to be easy on the data entry to keep good track of all that skateboard stuff.
Sometimes you have to think inside the box.
That corner by the front door there is going to be the foot fetish oval office aka the shoe wall.
I feel many parts of the digital systems I'm building to run this place look like this right now, but it's coming together quickly. I'll have another video soon showing how our checkout process works, how it's completely integrated with the in-store experience including Digital Gift Cards, and more. It's a pleasure to be back with the team where we all have a unique piece of the bid'niss pie to contribute to complete the entire thing a little more nicely than your average entrepreneurs can.
I'm sure this stuff keeps my allergies nice and lively.
Maybe concrete will be involved when we build the skate stuff next door. You think?
Power moves.
Looking in from the parking lot. Time to get back to work.
Brittany and I had to bring the boy by to check it out. This is Alvis Meronek, born just about a month ago. That's one chill ass baby right there.
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