Re: OT-SALE:Memphis Area Iris Society
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT-SALE:Memphis Area Iris Society
- From: M* D* G*
- Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 22:00:16 -0700
I have bags ready for our sale with pictures printed from the computer
glued on each bag, year of intro and hybridizer also. Don't know if anyone
else is doing theirs this way.
Mike Greenfield
redear@infinet.com
SW Ohio
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> From: wmoores@watervalley.net
> To: iris-talk@egroups.com
> Subject: [iris-talk] OT-SALE:Memphis Area Iris Society
> Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000 4:49 PM
>
> I just returned from one of the most effeciently conducted iris
> rhizome sales I have ever attended.
>
> Perhaps you know that in 2002, the MAIS is hosting the AIS
> Convention and that a master planting for that convention is at the
> Memphis Botanic Garden. The current iris planting was dug and
> the rhizomes offered for sale today in order to make way for the
> new guest irises that will start arriving in August.
>
> The sale rhizomes were placed in brown grocery bags,
> arranged alphabetically by cultivar name with a color photo or a
> color catalog picture clipped to the bag. (Later, I saw the extensive
> collection of pictures and clerks returning pictures to the file when
> the rhizomes of a given variety were sold out).
>
> Five or six MAIS members were working the floor, and as soon
> as a bag was emptied, it was removed, and the other bags shifted
> closer to the beginning of the row.
>
> Customers were given a brown bag for their selections.
>
> At the check-out area, there were three or four members
> totaling the charges and stapling a receipt to the bag.
>
> The next step was paying out at one of the two cashiers.
>
> When, you think about it, this sounds so easy and simple, but
> I have never been to a sale that was handled quite like this.
>
> One of the nicest aspects of this show involved clean-up.
> There was very little. If there was any dirt, it was in the sacks and
> not on the floor or tables.
>
> I donated a few things from my garden, and they were all
> just about taken before I could get them in a bag and on the proper
> tables. The citizens of Memphis were iris hungry today! Include
> me in that group, too.
>
> Walter Moores
> Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA (who doesn't think this is OT, but there
> is no subject tag for sales)
>
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