Was generally at the store whenever it was open. First thing in the morning, he would check to see if deliveries had been made during the night. Would then put out the new bread, mark down the day old, and put it on the day-old rack. Meanwhile, produce head was stocking produce rack; McMahon helped him if he had time. Opened the safe and put in cash registers. Rest of the day he would help out where needed and spend a good deal of time on book work, reports and mail. In a small town like Baraboo, he would let in customers before store opened if they were waiting; this would not be done in a large town. Supervised the front end during the day. Tried to set aside some time each day to visit with the customers; this was as much to get away from the pressures of paperwork as for customer relations. As time went on and he was forced to cut help, he had less time for customer relations work; would make a point of doing some checking during the day in order to get in some customer relations. Believed in customer relations; never told his employees to cut back on it, even when he was being pressured to get more work out of the employees. “I think that is the best thing there is for business.”
