OK...

So it's time I post again on this blog. I've been busy doing many things lately. Staying warm being one of them. Work has been crazy. We merged with another company and so we have sort of put the two stores together. The one down side to this is I still have to do a lot of paperwork for all of the items sold or transferred to the other store. Supposedly we are supposed to finally meet someone from Red Man. We merged with them on 1 Nov 2007 and we have yet to meet anyone from upper management from their end. The regional manager is out of SLC and hasn't even made the measly 3 hour drive to come meet his newest employees. Pretty lame and annoying at the same time.

In other news. I've been emailing Sam's Club to see what their criteria is to decide where to put a new store. They gave me some bull about not having a population minimum but at the same time most locations have around 100,000 at least in the "trade area". They claimed that there were only 42,000 people in the "trade area" here. So I asked how big the area was. They said it took in all of Northeastern Utah including down to Moab. That's one large area. So I went to http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

The following is what I found. A lot more people than they claimed. I emailed them back to let them know their poor math skills. We'll see what they have to say about that.

Colorado

rio blanco co 6180
moffat co 13680

utah
uintah co 27955
duchesne co 15701
daggett co 947
carbon co 19469
grand co 8999
emery co 10698

wyoming
sweetwater co 38763
uinta co 20213

totaling 162605