Earlier on today I was doing a spot of online shopping for some sewing machine needles and I happened to notice that this particular online store was selling a hard-to-find product (which I’ll call item X) which I also sell in my own shop.  So in the name of research I went to check out [...]

What a day! I’ve been on the phone trying to sort out my wobbly Internet connection.
I tells ya, there’s nothing like being passed from one dept to another (interspersed with repetitive strains of Vivaldi or crap pop) to turn a seemingly intelligent adult into a raging baboon. After a few hours of (teeth [...]

This post is a follow up to my Types of Suppliers post. I thought that it would be useful to give some pointers on how to approach wholesalers and suppliers because (to be honest) they aren’t always as helpful as small independent businesses can be to deal with, so you sometimes need a [...]