I'm often asked how the huge retail emporium that is the Northern Letters market stall runs so smoothly at the many local Manchester markets that it pops up at. Although I'm more Alan Shergar than Alan Sugar, as you really won't find me in a boardroom or running a stable of multinational companies (stable? hilarious!), I'd thought you might like an insight into what goes on behind the scenes….
Incidentally that first bit about often being asked may not actually be true, and this entire blog post may have been dreamt up while sheltering under a red gazebo staring at the view above during a rather wet Chorlton Art Market recently….
The finance department keeps a technologically advanced record of sales a they happen. The fact I took this with a digital camera makes it technologically advanced so shush!
Such is the corporate nature of this empire that even the cleaning staff's cloths are branded, no borrowing of paper napkins from food vendors for us, oh no!
So next time you pop along at see us at the many Manchester markets we regularly attend, you'll have an idea how your purchase gets from the shelf to your hand. Heathrow Terminal 5 baggage handling? You ain't got nothing on us!
Don't forget if you can't make it to a market, you can buy our mugs, cushions, prints, canvasses and tea towels online anytime.