We took my in-laws back to my father-in-law’s hometown on the west coast of France last year and it was kind of wild to have it not be dark out until 10 pm. A lot of times we didn’t have dinner until 8:30 or 9 because it didn’t feel that late.
They last tried DST “year-round” starting in January 1974 and people quickly hated it, with support dropping from 79% before it started to 42% three months in. Morning accidents increased and schoolchildren were injured or killed.
I don’t necessarily love the idea of the sun starting to rise as early as 4am in the summer, but I think if we’re going to stay with one we might as well stick to standard time year-round. We’d still have light past 8 PM where I live and it would mean activities better for the dark could start earlier. I see places wanting to take advantage of the warm weather for things like outdoor movies but they can’t start until after 9.
Loaded French fries?
Where else would it go? The veins are blue!
Are there any sickos that use black text on white?
IIRC that’s the default on macOS if the theme is in light mode instead of dark mode. So probably.
You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?
Rarely; I think the last time was a live CD to try Linux on an older computer
So this is the strategy of putting 4 houses on your properties in Monopoly and never upgrading them to hotels because that way there are no houses for your opponents to buy
Iceberg or wave for me, thanks
So in Germany one often has to move out of Harms’s way?
I know it varies from state to state, but where I’ve lived it’s an “elective” in that you got to pick which language to take of the available options (some schools might only have two choices, others four or even five), but taking a certain number of foreign language credits was required for graduation. If you wanted to go beyond the minimum and had room in your schedule you could.
I feel like it’s less of a band and more of a performance group, though
No, I never had the patience to figure it out. I think I’ve seen a video or two with solution algorithms but did not have access to a cube to try them and don’t really remember the ways now.
I think I only ever needed a white shirt and tie. My younger brother was in band but when they performed with the string orchestra to give more of a symphony I think they actually did have some sort of suit, maybe tuxedo-like. That was all arranged by the school at the very start, of course.
This is some sort of health/beauty product? It’s not a product I have a lot of familiarity with, but it sounds like you’re on the right path starting with smaller shops, especially if you can position it as artisanal.
With smaller shops they likely won’t have a dedicated buyer position, so you will probably want to speak with a manager or owner. Normally these are busy people so they won’t want you dropping in without an appointment. Try to schedule something in advance by phone or email. If you do walk in lead with asking for an appointment, but be ready to sell yourself and your product on the spot. Practice your “elevator pitch” to try to spark interest right away.
I’d suggest you should try calling places and setting yourself up some sales trips, making appointments to see people that are at least relatively near each other. Don’t schedule too many so that you aren’t rushed to get from one to the next. You don’t want to be late, but you also don’t want to rush a visit that’s going well and end it early to get to your next one; your customers should feel that you value them and that they’re not less important than someone else. It could mean a lot of down time between calls, but you can use that to find more customers, take care of correspondence, etc.
Definitely bring lots of samples, both for the buyers and potentially that they could offer to clients. If your product won’t deteriorate when sitting in a vehicle you could bring stock with you but I don’t think most stores would expect you to supply them immediately. It might look sketchy or less professional if you’re pulling retail product out of your car’s trunk, but maybe not if this is artisanal, or it’s just a small supply for them to trial you as a product line.
Is your suggested retail price high enough that you can sell to them at a wholesale discount and still make a sustainable profit yourself? My background is electronics, and the rule of thumb I’ve typically seen for consumer electronics is the product needs to cost 3 or 4 times the bill of materials (BOM). The BOM should include your labor costs to actually make the product, but the markup lets you cover the rest of your costs like R&D, marketing, shipping, administration, etc. When I was at a consumer electronics company we would typically sell to our retail channel at a 20-30% discount off our MSRP, depending on volume. Rarely we’d sell at 40% to large customers, but below that we’d start to risk profitability except on high volume products. When you’re meeting with retailers, they’re going to want to know what profit they can make, and they’ll have an idea of what they think they can sell your product for, which might not be your MSRP.
Good luck!
Most Linux distributions offer a “live CD” experience (does not actually have to be on a CD nowadays; you can use a USB drive). Basically when the computer turns on you tell it to boot off the USB drive instead of the drive in the computer. That way you can try it out on your computer before installing it and see if it works out of the box for you with its defaults. It will probably be a little slower running off a USB drive. I don’t think you can typically install additional programs or save things to the computer (someone more experienced might chime in), but you can try doing basic things like using the web browser or word processor.
I remember seeing a stunningly beautiful woman at the grocery store, and I looked in my cart and saw lactose-free milk, lactose-free probiotic yogurt, and ultra-soothing toilet paper. I’m sure she was impressed.