On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank in icy cold waters off the coast in the North Atlantic…400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. It seems the world has been captivated by this story ever since. There is an excellent Titanic attraction here in Pigeon Forge right down the road from us. Our store offers many books on the Titanic story, and we just received some of these Titanic puzzles (1,000 pieces). It looks like it might be a hard one!
The world globe in the picture is a new item for us and of high quality, priced at just $64.99. What a beautiful and practical work of art to have in your home as you keep up with current events and want to help yourself and your family fully understand where world news is taking place. Perhaps you might give this globe a spin to choose your next vacation?
Wherever you are, wherever you go, we hope that your travels are interesting, fun, and adventurous…and of course, safe! Come see us when you can. We hope to prove ourselves a worthy destination!
Mike Beagan
The basement. Did you know our MoonPie General Store has a basement? Go to the back of the store and down the stairs. We call it our “GREAT BUY” Basement. So what’s down there? Well, our buyer is making some purchases, books and gifts, specifically for the basement. And some merchandise started upstairs, but later was marked down and sent to the basement. There are boxed greeting cards, southern gospel CD’s, Webkinz, and books and gifts of all sorts. We had a recent buy of Guideposts inspirational fiction books, nice hardcovers, and found in the basement at $3.99 each. We have four new devotional journals that are very nice, hardcover, regular $16.99, but sale priced in the basement at $4.99 each.
What else is in the basement? Well we have a children’s table and chairs on a carpet at the front, and are working to put more and more kids books in the basement. We have just pulled a bunch and marked them half off, and are putting them in the basement now. And in the back third of the basement, we have created a books section signed “$3 OR LESS”, with older marked down books. Hardcovers selling at $3, Paperbacks selling at $2, and find three books you like here, and we’ll give you the 4th book FREE. Who doesn’t like FREE?
The basement continues to be a work in progress, but if you visit often enough we think you’ll see that we are working, working, and working some more down there to bring you GREAT BUY product at GREAT prices, and also trying to make our basement more attractive and organized.
Seems like we’re almost through January already. Whew! We hope you are enjoying this start to 2018. Be good to the people in your life, and come visit our store when you are in town. And we say “thank you!”
Mike Beagan
About 1987, a Book Warehouse store opened on the Parkway in Pigeon Forge. It became a favorite stop for both locals and tourists to find great buys on books. Fast forward 25 years. Changes in the book business caused the owners to be looking for another “brand” to partner with the Book Warehouse brand. And in early 2012, the store became MoonPie General Store and the Original Book Warehouse. The inside of the store went through some radical changes, as bookshelves and books were pushed to one side, making room for moonpies and MoonPie brand product, and a great gift assortment on the other side. And the intent was to make the moonpie/gift side look as though you were walking down an old time main street with little shops to your left and right, and offer many old time, nostalgic gift items in the store. Mission accomplished, and three years later we are still receiving wonderful compliments almost every day from our customers about the changes we made when we became MoonPie General Store!
So what have we been doing more recently? Good question, and here’s my answer:
- We made some changes to our inventory over the past year to greatly increase the number of new releases and best selling titles that we offer…wanting our customers to find those frequently requested titles on our shelves.
- Speaking of “finding stuff,” we just introduced a new sign package to guide you to the various book categories around the store…and really, it is the first new signage for our books in 25 years.
- We have been getting much more active on facebook, keeping customers informed of happenings like author events and showing pictures of new product and in-store displays.
- And this website you’ve reading this blog on is brand new for us, and we may have a few bugs to work out yet. Deciding to sell selected product online is another new step for us…check out the shopping tab and some of the great product we are offering!
- And we have a new gift card program we are about to roll out.
Perhaps you’ve been in our store before…or you are checking us out for the first time on our website. It is our hope that you will make us a destination when you are come to Pigeon Forge/Dollywood/Great Smoky Mountains…and that we will impress you and spoil you enough that you come see us every time you are here!
