JPatrick said:
ABC carried a story about a Baton Rouge gun store that has been selling 1000 guns a day since the city almost doubled in population after the hurricane.
Previous sales?? About 15 per day
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Yeah, a reality check is in order.
Likely inventory was probably well under 1000, so he'd have to order another few thousand to make this work. Who was overnighting inventory to stores during those early days? Nobody. Even if he could get delivery, what wholesaler or manufacturer would extend hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit to a store that previously did only a little business with them?
And even if all that worked out -- the store likely had the staffing to sell what they had been previously selling. So they had to staff up to unload trucks, log the serial numbers in as they were unloaded, find a place to PUT the inventory, and all that. And then they have to sell them. Don't even think about the 1/2 mile line of people that were supposedly waiting at the cash register... It takes 5-10 minutes to sell a gun, what with the BATF forms, the required paperwork, the "instant check", etc. That means, at best, one employee could sell a little under 100 guns in an 8 hour day, without bathroom breaks. So they hired 15 new employees, 5 to unload and stack, and 10 to process the sales?
I don't think so, Tim.
I suspect there was a little creative reporting here. The store undoubtedly sold a lot more than usual -- and perhaps told a reporter that they COULD sell 1000 a day, if they had them.
