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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Grand Forks, Devils Lake Stores Are Open

I don’t like to bump people’s elbow’s when they’re doing their best.  I haven’t talked to the store managers lately but we’re showing sales in all of the stores except for Minot. 

Grand Forks to Open Up at Noon

I just heard from our associate store manager that we will be able to open up in Grand Forks at noon.  He’s been struggling to open the lot. 

Right now we don’t have anyone in there to answer the phone, but we have two cashiers coming around then. 

The Grafton manager is in the store.  He opened a bit late as he had 3 feet of snow around his pickup.  Not many people are out.

The Great Christmas Snow Storm

We take it very seriously to be open on snow days because we sell so much emergency gear.  But when our crew can’t make it in then the customers can’t make it in either.

As of right now we have some people trying to clear out enough snow in the Grand Forks store so that we can open sometime today.  As of right now we’re not open, but we will later if we can.

The Minot streets are pretty much shut down and we aren’t open there but we’ll try around noon. 

The Jamestown store is open for now with the manager and one other.  Our Williston store is open.  I couldn’t get through to anyone in Devils Lake or Grafton.

I’ll update this as I find more information. 

We certainly don’t want anyone stranded (or getting stuck making the problem worse) trying to get to work.  On the other hand we have to balance that out with doing the best we can for our customers.