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Embroidery => General Embroidery => Topic started by: inkman996 on December 10, 2020, 11:18:12 AM
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1,800 sherpa blankets hitting our docks tomorrow, not one but two locations! and repackaged. Rush job because an ASI vendor for this company dropped the ball and told them at the 11th hour they could not do the job. Has to be complete by end of next week, we can do it, just have to run extra shifts because we are already slammed with other stuff.
Anyone else having the biggest holiday slam in their history?
Oh and has to be black bobbin thread lol.
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nope
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Nope, we are really slow here. The last few years we've seen a slowdown in Christmas, but January is usually a big month for us. It's been amazing to watch the shift happen over the course of a few years.
A decade ago our Christmases were insane.
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up from a year ago, but down at least 50% from what we were planning. I guess the shopping spree did not happen this year and the customer talking about $150k worth of orders in december just did not pan out. oh well, not a big deal. we are OK overall so it would have been nice.
pierre
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Nope, we are really slow here. The last few years we've seen a slowdown in Christmas, but January is usually a big month for us. It's been amazing to watch the shift happen over the course of a few years.
A decade ago our Christmases were insane.
Leading up to Christmas has always been a crazy month for us, after Christmas it slows down. We expect because of Covid to have a really slow January since our state is in near lock down mode.
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Yes. Madness. 7 days a week since Thanksgiving not stopping till the the 23rd. Not complaining very very happy and grateful!!!
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Busy, more so than last year but not like wildly more busy.
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This is the busiest I've ever been. Only have 2 single heads and they're basically running from when I get in at 9 am to when I leave at 1 am.
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year 2020 our sales are 45% down from 2019.
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Stopped taking orders.
It's been a long time since I've been here alone during the holidays and I'm not going to stress myself out by trying to fill a bunch of last minute orders.
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Well when it rains it pours. We had to order 200 North Face Jackets for a broker because he is not authorized to purchase NF, we noticed this through the year we are ordering a lot of NF because so few of us around are able to purchase NF. Now we have a 625 pice sweat shirt job that has to be printed bagged and stickered, another 450 pc blanket order oh and none of that is counting all of our other normal expected stuff.
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We are so slammed that we quit taking orders for Christmas. No way in hell I'm going to do 16hr days. I love money like everyone else but not that much.
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Yes way smaller than you guys but busier than i have been other years at this time. None are Christmas orfers we stopped taking thst madness years ago.
Guess the TRUMP 2020 signs backfired
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I guess the region you're from makes a little difference. We are about 60% down from last year. I've seriously considered driving a truck again. We have no equipment or bldg payments but the boredom is doing me in. I know it will get better, that's the only thing keeping me going.
The only thing positive about this year is that I've had time to do things on our house that I've put off before. For those that are doing great, I'm proud for you and for the others like me that are skimming by hang in there it will get better. I hope!!
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We (and by "we" I mean me now since my assistant left for a full time job last week) have a somehow successful regional clothing line for our "slow" winter time. Single color print/EMB that says "Baltimore" on it with a design and it sells 15 orders a day consistently. Might sound like small time but for one person it's keeping the shop afloat while we move to our new warehouse.
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We're surprisingly happy with how busy we are. Typically, slower this time of year but probably will be working up till somewhere in the 22-23. (We normally close production for two full weeks as it's their tradition to take the full two). This year we told them that's not an option, nor would we probably agree to that much vacation time being used right now. Don't have a good read past end of the month though, not sure what January will bring.
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We're surprisingly happy with how busy we are. Typically, slower this time of year but probably will be working up till somewhere in the 22-23. (We normally close production for two full weeks as it's their tradition to take the full two). This year we told them that's not an option, nor would we probably agree to that much vacation time being used right now. Don't have a good read past end of the month though, not sure what January will bring.
January and the rest of 2021 are a total mystery!
we just bet big time on POD, hoping it does not take too long to get busy with it.
pierre
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We've been slow here, though we've had a lot of new business, as a couple of shops have shut down due to Covid, and even though we're old here, everyone is 55 and up, we're healthy and producing but no, we've had better holiday seasons.
Steve
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Busy here is northern Indiana. I think we will be up from last Dec. But yes come Jan cleaning and trying to stay busy.
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Super busy now and lots of PO's for January, The marketing companies I deal with have had record months in sept/ oct / nov. which was unexpected. But the first 3 months of the newer are up in the air who knows what will happen?
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Pierre I agree, I have zero idea how to project any numbers for next year. We'll see. Our Jan and Feb the last few years has been great. Hopefully that holds.
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Pierre I agree, I have zero idea how to project any numbers for next year. We'll see. Our Jan and Feb the last few years has been great. Hopefully that holds.
hope it does for you!
pierre
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Pierre I agree, I have zero idea how to project any numbers for next year. We'll see. Our Jan and Feb the last few years has been great. Hopefully that holds.
hope it does for you!
pierre
I have been writing non stop quotes today, it's insane...everything is getting pushed to next year.
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We're surprisingly happy with how busy we are. Typically, slower this time of year but probably will be working up till somewhere in the 22-23. (We normally close production for two full weeks as it's their tradition to take the full two). This year we told them that's not an option, nor would we probably agree to that much vacation time being used right now. Don't have a good read past end of the month though, not sure what January will bring.
January and the rest of 2021 are a total mystery!
we just bet big time on POD, hoping it does not take too long to get busy with it.
pierre
Investing in POD.. meaning DTG route , or more fulfillment capabilities? Just curious. You thinking of running front end stores for clients, or somehow doing the decorating & shipping on the backside for them?
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We're surprisingly happy with how busy we are. Typically, slower this time of year but probably will be working up till somewhere in the 22-23. (We normally close production for two full weeks as it's their tradition to take the full two). This year we told them that's not an option, nor would we probably agree to that much vacation time being used right now. Don't have a good read past end of the month though, not sure what January will bring.
January and the rest of 2021 are a total mystery!
we just bet big time on POD, hoping it does not take too long to get busy with it.
pierre
Investing in POD.. meaning DTG route , or more fulfillment capabilities? Just curious. You thinking of running front end stores for clients, or somehow doing the decorating & shipping on the backside for them?
taking orders from stores. we are setting up to be their vendor in shopify. our customers will set up their stores and we will pull the orders, decorate and ship.
we also have some local customers with larger number of orders that will not go through the shopify so we have the csv import also set up.
pierre