It's a funny old life.

Whilst driving to work I often listen to the Radio Five “Wake up to money”money" podcasts, around the time the Euro football competition started they interviewed a guy from Pound Shop Wholesale suppliers to Pound Shops. 

It was a cracking interview that started something like this:

“What are the supplies of cheap tat from China like?”

“It's not a good at the moment”

“Well, what about flags, bunting and other Euro football stuff”?

“It's not coming in at all, it hasn't even be made as the factories were closed, but at least it's giving shops and wholesalers a chance to clear the old stock from the back of the warehouse they did not sell during previous competitions”.

They went on to discuss all the issues, unless you are aware of what is going on in the world you may think that things will go back to how they were a couple of years ago, but actually you need to accept the world has changed and adapt accordingly. 

Things ain't what they used to be.

For example if spare parts for cars from Germany need time to clear customs then they won't be delivered so quickly and if there's customs duties to pay they will cost more. 

If you go on a website to order materials for jobs you may find that the wholesaler does not have them in stock and they are on back order with an unconfirmed delivery date, so you cannot tell the  customer that you will start their job on a particular day. 

I carry stock for the jobs I do working on the basis that my wholesaler opens at 7.30 am so I can call in in the morning and Screwfix close at 8.00 pm so I can call in on the way home allowing me to restock, but I'm having issues replenishing it and I'm seriously considering increasing my stock level by having additional stock as a backup at home. 

So far this year I have only left one job to go to a wholesaler, I had to drive into Henley on Thames to get a shaver socket, because I had used one the previous day and had not called in at the wholesaler that morning to restock.

This is rather going off topic, but customers need to accept that you may not be able to get to them for a few days  you cannot give them an exact arrival time because don't know exactly how long the previous job will take and you may not be able to do the job until you can get specific materials, plus the price of copper has gone through the roof as have some other materials, also labour costs are increasing.

It's what we older guys call inflation something else millennials don't understand, along with higher mortgage interest rates.

Whilst driving to work I often listen to the Radio Five “Wake up to money”money" podcasts, around the time the Euro football competition started they interviewed a guy from Pound Shop Wholesale suppliers to Pound Shops. 

It was a cracking interview that started something like this:

“What are the supplies of cheap tat from China like?”

“It's not a good at the moment”

“Well, what about flags, bunting and other Euro football stuff”?

“It's not coming in at all, it hasn't even be made as the factories were closed, but at least it's giving shops and wholesalers a chance to clear the old stock from the back of the warehouse they did not sell during previous competitions”.

They went on to discuss all the issues, unless you are aware of what is going on in the world you may think that things will go back to how they were a couple of years ago, but actually you need to accept the world has changed and adapt accordingly. 

Things ain't what they used to be.

For example if spare parts for cars from Germany need time to clear customs then they won't be delivered so quickly and if there's customs duties to pay they will cost more. 

If you go on a website to order materials for jobs you may find that the wholesaler does not have them in stock and they are on back order with an unconfirmed delivery date, so you cannot tell the  customer that you will start their job on a particular day. 

I carry stock for the jobs I do working on the basis that my wholesaler opens at 7.30 am so I can call in in the morning and Screwfix close at 8.00 pm so I can call in on the way home allowing me to restock, but I'm having issues replenishing it and I'm seriously considering increasing my stock level by having additional stock as a backup at home. 

So far this year I have only left one job to go to a wholesaler, I had to drive into Henley on Thames to get a shaver socket, because I had used one the previous day and had not called in at the wholesaler that morning to restock.

This is rather going off topic, but customers need to accept that you may not be able to get to them for a few days  you cannot give them an exact arrival time because don't know exactly how long the previous job will take and you may not be able to do the job until you can get specific materials, plus the price of copper has gone through the roof as have some other materials, also labour costs are increasing.

It's what we older guys call inflation something else millennials don't understand, along with higher mortgage interest rates.