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Published December 23, 2008 09:17 am - One local business has many different decorating options for Christmas and store employees have had a busy season helping customers find just the right holiday items to match their needs. Christmas comes in all colors By LISA SIMPSON STRANGE Glasgow Daily Times GLASGOW — One local business has many different decorating options for Christmas and store employees have had a busy season helping customers find just the right holiday items to match their needs.
Judy Thomas has been the manager of the local Southgate Kerr’s Wholesale & Florist Shop for 11 years. Even though Thanksgiving and Christmas are busy times, Thomas’ hectic schedule actually began a little earlier in the year. She said getting ready for the store’s open house Nov. 9-11 was the crazy part because “you’re on a deadline. All the trees have to be up and decorated and you have to have so many arrangements.” Early each fall, store employees begin receiving shipments and setting up displays for the holiday season. Thomas said it takes approximately six weeks, from the end of September through October to set up all the store displays. She said the timetable is based according on when they get all the merchandise in and start “phasing it through.” “It takes us longer to unpack and get each individual piece marked than it does actually to do this,” she said as she gestured to all the displays. “Because these (ornaments) all come packaged in little bitty plastic packages and I take every one of them out and price them.” She said setting up the trees is much easier than in the past. “Now it’s not half as bad as it used to be because we used to have to put the lights on the trees too,” she said. “Now all but two or three of the trees are pre-lit. That’s wonderful.” Thomas had more help in the store during the fall, but now she and another store employee, Philip Holder, are taking care of holiday business. Holder is a local artist and has worked in the store for the last two years. He said he has probably made several hundred bows over the last couple of months trying to keep up with the demand. Business was steady on a recent day at the store with customers coming in to take advantage of the 50 percent off ornaments and decorations that had just been marked down. Rows of Raggedy Ann dolls peered out at customers from the end of the cash wrap as they entered. Thomas stood behind them and waited on several people. Customer Judye Hafling came in and asked about some peacock decorations. Thomas showed her the beautifully iridescent blue and green feathered ornaments and garland festooned with matching beads. Thomas was kept busy ringing up people at the cash register and figuring in the discount amounts. At the same time, she managed to work in explaining to Hafling the steps of making a large gold mesh bow and garland to go on her Christmas tree. “The top of it ... you make kind of like a bow and wire it,” she told Hafling as she demonstrated with the mesh netting. “There’s three big puffs in each section at the top of the tree ... and then you take it and pull it. You wire that together. Put this at the top, then weave it in around the greenery through your tree branches and fold them around it. Take it back into it a little bit. Tuck it into the branches then bring it back out.” 
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