Wouldn't worry too much about sponsorship as we are soon to announce a major sponsor for Mcrae's team talks:









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Lets have a Salford Reds megastore to rival MUFC, we could build it on the club car park and stock it with hundreds of items. It will run at a huge loss but who cares.



Supply and demand people

If the club could make money out of a particular item I am sure they would sell it.

So the jist here, on a thread entitled 'finance issues' is: "Lets spend money on marketing and merchandise"?



You couldn't make this dross up...

says it all mate

The definition of supply and demand surely is if somebody wants to buy something then there is a demand a nd therefore the club should supply it. Therefore when I'm stood in the club shop asking for a given item and i'm told there is no call for it?????? Er reality check there is no call for an item that I am stood there actually asking you for... isn't that a contradiction in terms?



Secondly have you ever heard the phrase speculate to accumulate. If you don't offer any items for sale then you can't make any money on them. I am looking for stuff for my 2 year old son. Redgunner wanted something for his 2 year old grandson (not the same child by the way) my sister wants stuff for her 1 year old. Is there a demand pattern emerging here?



FFS it's not rocket science. When my dad worked at the club he set up a caravan on Salford precinct selling merchandise and that did quite nicely until they bought the house on Kennedy Rd to set up this super duper new shop that now has nothing in it. Stop making excuses for them... they are poor on this and need new ideas.

Several people wanted stuff for PIPO's son, I wanted stuff for my 3 month old cousin in Canada. However - playing devils advocate - you need money in the first place to speculate to accumulate, and I'll bet the profit margins are small on the type of goods mentioned (although you can't put a price on keeping customers happy).

Exactly and these kids are the future supporters. Look at what other clubs have got. Are we really that badly off that we can't push it a little bit more

I'm hopeful a few bib sales will offset this tragic news:

"Secondly have you ever heard the phrase speculate to accumulate"



You used to run RBS and Northern Rock

and I want my £5.



Look at our average home attendance and see if this is sufficient for a realistic strategy based on the above comments. I realise more can be done but there is another phrase:

"Cut your clothes according to your cloth."



A better shop - agree but only that.

There ain't half been some written on here recently. Why does everything have to be so extreme?



They did used to sell baby clothes in the shop. Now I haven't asked anybody but my guess is they didn't call a merchandising meeting and say "we're making massive profits on this baby stuff with people queuing round the corner for it so let's not bother selling it anymore".



If they only sell a few a year (and can therefore only order a few) it would be really expensive to have them made and so hard (if not impossible) to make a profit. You have to have something in the bank to speculate with for red13pjb's MBA level business analysis to work



I find it frustrating that everything I buy for my son from the shop is too big for him (and he's a big 3 year old) but I don't for one minute think that the club should be slagged off for making what amounts to a sensible business decision, we're not in a position to lose money in the shop

At last!!!!! someone talking sense.

Its down to ordering minimum orders from suppliers & we are not like Hull's, Bradfords or Wigans fans(for e.g.) who have good/great followings & no man u's in their area's to distract from their merchandise, so where the above clubs can probably shift a minimum order of bibs/babygro's etc in a matter of months, we can't & we are not in the financial position to have stock just lying around.

I always thought we missed a trick with the t shirts.



Did the shop still have the machine to add names and numbers?



If so why don't they order plain tees then add have a limited number of designs that can go on any shirt/



Same with Bibs etc, transfers can be designed easily in this computer age.