My Seton Store Story

This week, Maggie and I have really cracked down on prepping for the Seton Store pop-up shop at the Mount. Over the past few months, Maggie and I have carefully been picking out clothes that we think college students would be interested in. I am very happy that we have achieved our goal of filling three racks of clothes (2 racks of women’s and 1 of men’s). We have not been very organized with our storage methods, so we finally organized the racks by size and clothing type, and designed signs for each of the racks. The signs that Maggie and I designed to indicate prices on each pop-up shop rack. It is really nice to see all of Maggie and my hard work coming together. The fliers that we designed with Maggie’s mom have started circulating, and I have already gotten excited messages from fellow students who are looking forward to the pop-up shop. I am hopeful that this event will go off without a hitch! The rack of men's clothes that we have picked out for the pop-up shop. We also ...

This week, we got a break from our typical jobs to prepare the store for Christmas. We have slowly been rolling out Christmas merchandise since September, but the holidays are in full swing at the Seton Store now that Halloween has passed and November has begun. Maggie and I have been working hard to help this shift go smoothly. Some fake trees that Maggie and I put together. Throughout the year, people donate Christmas items, which go into storage in a closet in the sorting room. Maggie and I have been responsible for sorting and tagging 25 packed boxes worth of items. Each week, merchandise is tagged with a different color to indicate how long it has been on the floor. Using these colored tags, we have split the merchandise and planned which items will go on the floor and when in the coming weeks. This will help us get as much merchandise on the floor as quickly as possible, with the ultimate goal of selling these items and opening up storage space in the sorting room. A bulletin b...