Official R. E. Steele

As I have mentioned before, the Fantastic General Store sells shoes. But a problem that keeps cropping up more and more often, is mismatched shoes appearing in the stores. Sometimes it’s two shoes of different sizes in the same box. Other times, it’s two left shoes or two right shoes in the box. Sometimes it’s…

At the Fantastic General Store, we do Inventory every year. Yes, that is Inventory with a capital I, because it’s an event that rivals Christmas in importance. Some departments even have Inventory multiple times a year. Nobody wants to find out the weapons section is missing a sword or a poleaxe. But Inventory, for as…

At the Fantastic General Store, employees can feel stressed. Sometimes there are a lot of tasks that need to be done, and not a lot of time to do them. Sometimes customers aren’t as polite as they should be. We have villain clientele after all, but sometimes even the so-called heroic customers get snappy with…

At the Fantastic General Store, there isn’t a lot of down time. Prince Charming and the diabolical villain regularly need to resupply their armies, usually because of each other. But sometimes management doesn’t seem to get the hint that you already have enough on your plate, and can’t take on more work. Efficiency is important,…

At the Fantastic General Store, as with most retailers, we train our new employees. Every company has its own way of doing things, and each individual store has its own quirks that need to be learned. The store in the Snow Queen’s kingdom isn’t going to operate the same way as the store on the…

At the Fantastic General Store, we have our share of turnover. Some people retire, others move to new locations, and some just want to move on to something else. Selling to products to heroes and villains isn’t always easy. But stores need to be quicker about hiring new people. It shouldn’t take weeks just a…

At the Fantastic General Store, we get our share of last-minute Christmas shoppers. Most are polite, but you do get the occasional customer who somehow forgets that supplies are limited, and we can’t just magically make products appear in the warehouse. We may have customers who can use magic, but we ourselves are limited to…

At the Fantastic General Store, we have inventory every year. Yes, just like other stores, we have to pay taxes too. The benevolent prince needs his tax revenue as much as the evil overlord. There is also the fact that inventory is a good opportunity to make sure we have the correct counts for each…

At the Fantastic General Store, we sometimes face cuts in the number of hours we are assigned to work. I understand in some cases. All stores go through slow periods. The evil warlord sometimes feels the need to invade another nation, and takes his troops with him. This means the stores at both his capital,…