Our committee is always looking for a way to earn a few dollars to supplement our events. The committee had a dozen Cokes left after an event. We decided to sell them for 50¢ each, then use the $6.00 to buy more.
The Coke machine in the lobby charges 60¢ so getting sales was not hard. Winco had Pepsi on sale at $5.89 for the 24 pack so with crv and taxes we went in the hole $1.31 and got them. Actually, I got my $1.31 after we sold three.
The next day we started with 19¢ and 21 Pepsis. Two weeks later when I went to Winco for my groceries I took the $8.00 from the 'Soda kitty' and picked up another 24 pack. Now we had 78¢ and 29 cans of Pepsi. Two weeks later we had run out of Pepsi, but we had $15.28 so I spent $14.62 and got a case of Pepsi and a case of Mt.Dew.
We also began to get requests for 7-up, root beer, and diet soda. So with $20.66 in hand (there were eight sodas in the fridge) off to Winco I went. Now I am looking for value and flavors. I discover Shasta at $1.97 for a box of 12 or $2.61 with tax and crv. I came back with 8 boxes and the kitty owed me 22¢. By the end of the day I was paid and we had 100 cans plus $1.78
The Shasta cola did not sell well but the others have. The favorites are black cherry and diet root beer. Maybe if we got rid of all the Pepsi it would do better, but; we are driven by the market forces. We added candy, then chips, now ice cream bars and ice cream sandwiches.
The average trip to Winco and 99¢ Only Stores takes 50.00 to $70.00 now. We have 15 flavors of soda, 20+ kinds of candy and a choice of ten in ice creams. There are about 100 cans in the fridge and 400 more in stock, about 450 candy bars in stock and close to 150 ice creams.
When I take the change to the bank there is usually $75.00 in coin and we always keep $100.00 on hand to go buy more.
This all started after Joe Gately cut off the money from Coke and CoinMach.
2 comments:
I lived in a SHRA community, for over seven years. I was living down town, but that building closed. I would take the grocery bus sometimes. I think bus trips should be extended to people in the South area, too.
I and some others, would like to see the way SHRA, tenant representatives are elected change. Right now, if you are president or vice president, you could hold that office for years. It wouldn't be fair to other residents, I don't a office; I do work for several non-profits.
You don't want any one person to hold the office so long, that they are so close to management, they are like buddies are something. You change it, for example to two years, to hold one office. And the next election, they couldn't be elected for that same post, but if they wanted to run for say, treasurer, they could hold that for two years. And then they would have to sit out for two years, before being elected to anything again.
I would also like to see, if an election took place and the candidates didn't inform ALL the tenants as to the EXACT, time, and date the election was being held it could be REVERSED, and new people could be elected. They would not be elgible to run again, ever.
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