Yesterday, as I was working in the San Diego warehouse, the phone rang and I answered. The person on the line had never been into one of our warehouses, had just registered online, and wanted to know if that was everything we carried. It is a great question and one I was not expecting! For over seventeen years, I have run the San Diego facility. Since our online store is an effort of the last couple of years, I did not realize I was working under the assumption that online shoppers had been into one of our warehouses before. With the rise of online commerce and the increased use of our online store, more and more of our customers will never see the inside of our warehouse.
Back to my customer and the question, we have a little more then 12,000 listed online now. In the warehouses, we have over 60,000 items in our system. We currently estimate between thirty and thirty five thousand active items between both warehouses. That means we have between 30% to 40% of our items online. Since we are constantly looking for the best deals and purchase many closeout items, the warehouse will probably always have items that we cannot list online because we received such small quantities. So, to answer the question more directly, there is MUCH more in the warehouses then online.
If you have never been into one of the warehouses, you are really missing out! We pride ourselves on our display work and hope to give you ideas and insights on color and trends with the newest products. To get a better idea of what a warehouse looks like, take a look at our published pictures in our website galleries or Facebook.
Hope this helps!
Warehouse vs. Online: Is Everything Online?
Yesterday, as I was working in the San Diego warehouse, the phone rang and I answered. The person on the line had never been into one of our warehouses, had just registered online, and wanted to know if that was everything we carried. It is a great question and one I was not expecting! For over seventeen years, I have run the San Diego facility. Since our online store is an effort of the last couple of years, I did not realize I was working under the assumption that online shoppers had been into one of our warehouses before. With the rise of online commerce and the increased use of our online store, more and more of our customers will never see the inside of our warehouse.
Back to my customer and the question, we have a little more then 12,000 listed online now. In the warehouses, we have over 60,000 items in our system. We currently estimate between thirty and thirty five thousand active items between both warehouses. That means we have between 30% to 40% of our items online. Since we are constantly looking for the best deals and purchase many closeout items, the warehouse will probably always have items that we cannot list online because we received such small quantities. So, to answer the question more directly, there is MUCH more in the warehouses then online.
If you have never been into one of the warehouses, you are really missing out! We pride ourselves on our display work and hope to give you ideas and insights on color and trends with the newest products. To get a better idea of what a warehouse looks like, take a look at our published pictures in our website galleries or Facebook.
Hope this helps!