With Janet Webster jones who is the owner of source booksellers in detroit about the shutdown has affected our business. Janet webster jones, it is an update five minutes into the covid pandemic. We have quite a lot to say this type. I get so much again for having us on cspan. You all are so dear to our hearts and i look at you at home a lot, so you have helped us really improve our business by the things that you do. We have really had to have an experience with back and forth, open close come up and done that is happening i think with everybody across the country because we take a little step four and we have to a little bit. I think that is the mode of the day as they would say. When we shut down the pivoted right away to online sales but it took a little while for that to happen. So we quickly moved ourselves to online sales and begin to sell the online website. In addition to that we also have added, people have added the phone calls, emails, the instagram and facebook request as
Spoke with Janet Webster jones who is the owner of sourcebooks sellers in detroit about how the shutdown how has affected her business Janet Webster jones give us an update five months into the covid pandemic. Well, we have quite a lot to say this time peter and thank you so much again for having us on cspan. You are also dear to our hearts. I look at sheila at home a lot. You have helped us really improve our business by the things you do. We have really had to have an experience of backandforth, open close, up and down that is been happening with everybody across the country. Because we take little step forward and then we have to back up a little bit. And i think that is the mode of the day as they would say. And so when we shut down we pivoted right away to online sales. But it took a little while for that to happen. So we quickly moved ourselves to online sales and began to sell through the online website. In addition to that we also have added, people have added phone calls, emai
Business by the things you do. We have had to have an experience with back and forth, open, close come up and down. Its happened across the country because we take a little step forward but then we have to back up a little bit. And i think that is the mode of the day as they would say. So when we shut down we went right away to online sales. It took a little while for that to happen, so we quickly moved ourselves to online sales and began to settle through the online website. In addition to that, weve also added the phone calls, emails, instagram and facebook which was a big surprise for us. Alyson has managed all of the online sales which means that we are sending out books from the store directly to people. Then we kind of move towards having people pick up at the door because the governor did move some of our restrictions and allowed for curbside, we call it door pickup because our curb is full of bicycles and cars and people, so we dont want anybody out on the curb. And so, we call
Experience with backandforth, open close, up and down its been happening with i think everybody across the country. We take a little step forward and then we have to back up a little bit. I think that is the mode of the day as they would say. And so, when we shut down we moved online right away to online sales. It took a little while for that to happen. So we quickly moved ourselves to online sales and began to sell through the online websites. In addition to that, we also have added an terms of people have added the phone calls, the emails, the instagram, and facebook requests as well. That was really a big surprise for us. And allison has really managed all of the online sales. Which means that we are sending out books from the store, directly to people. Then we kind of move toward having people pick up at the door. Because the governor did lift some of our restrictions. And allowed for curbside, we called door pickup because our curb is pulling bicycles, cars and people so we dont w
Janet, when did you start your bookstore . We started with our first incarnation in 1989, we just celebrated our 30 years of selling books in detroit and not that time we were vendors going to put people from showing up and into thousand two we joined a collective of three independent stores that share the space and in 2013 we moved into the space that we run now midtown detroit. How far from the downtown area are you in detroit. We are about eight or 9 miles, downtown is one district as they say now in detroit and midtown is the next district after that. Years ago a news center was created, another part of the city and that is another five or 7 miles beyond us. We are in the heart of the cultural life of the city with the universities, the library, the main library, the university, the Health Center and a lot of galleries in africanamerican museum, the historical museum, were in a cultural rich area of the city and its really the heart of the city. You are just a couple blocks off woo