Dear Friends,

I had a ball working the line at the grand opening of our new Manchester store. The line started forming around 7AM and soon stretched all the way past the food court and just outside of Best Buy.

Ed and Kali gave away t-shirts and swag, while I worked the line with Kerry’s son James. I tried to shake everyone’s hand and thank them for coming. It was amazing to me how many people have been reading Kibbles & Bytes for years, knew all about Small Dog and were there to help us celebrate the opening of our new store.

Mike Hogan and Mary Philipsek from Apple also were in attendance and rather than just standing around and watching, they both dug right in and started helping customers, demoing equipment and making sales. It made me feel really good to get that kind of help!

I am very proud of our Manchester crew; we have hired some winners and I’m sure as you come to our store and get to know them that you will agree. Katie and her crew did such an amazing job creating a store that we can be proud of—I am very impressed.

Now, the hard work begins as we head into the holiday season. We have one more big pre-holiday event first—our simultaneous two-state free ewaste collection effort on Oct. 23rd.

We will be collecting ewaste in the parking lot at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester, NH (the mall owners have been very cooperative and supportive of this effort!) and we will also be set up at 30 Community Drive in S. Burlington, VT. Read more about this event below. We hope to maintain our status as the only electronics retailer who has recycled more electronics than we have sold!