Slow

  It's kinda weird.

To have the store be dead.

Like I did notice things going a bit more back to normal customer wise this past summer. Where we'd have slow days.

But after like two years of dealing with pandemic crazy that seemed to bring a constant stream of customers into the store....

It's really really weird that January has felt rather dead.

Like it's a normal feeling. All the Christmas Crazy is done with. All the returns have been returned that were gotten for Christmas.

The store usually dies around this time for a bit before ramping back up for Valentines Day and then other holidays and then Summer and once again the Holiday season.....

But it feels a bit out of left field.

Since it's been a good two years since we've had consistent slow days.

Which is probably helped by people going back to work and back to school and maybe just maybe by the fact that omicron is surging in the area and maybe people are actually smart enough to stay home instead of visiting a pet store for funsies.

But at the same time.

It kinda feels like we're back at the beginning of the pandemic again.

Mostly in the shipping area.

Sure there is product shortages.

But I'm mostly meaning in live pets.

Like I didn't have a rodent/bird shipment in this week. 

Which is....odd. Very odd considering that I only have like 7 hamsters in the store currently. I only have 4 guinea pigs.

I have 18 cages for rodents....and only 6 of them have animals in them. 

I haven't gotten a reptile shipment for two weeks. (Though there's a chance it will come tomorrow) 

Like....it's odd to have this random shortage happening with the animals.

Especially since we were doing so well during the Christmas season in keeping most creatures in stock.

It's just....weird.

Maybe it's a fluke. Maybe it's a random occurrence of "hey none of the animals are ready yet, we have to wait an extra week."

Who knows.

But it is odd. 

As I feel like we should be able to fill up completely on animals now that the demand has lessened significantly.

And yet the cages just get emptier....despite the days being slower.....

Until you next find these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi