Wednesday our friend Tracy visited. “While I’m there,” she had said when planning the visit, “we have to go to Hummel’s.”
Hummel’s Office Plus, on Albany Street in Herkimer, carries a full line of office supplies plus a Hallmark Gift Shop. It was the gift shop section Tracy particularly wanted to check out. At a previous visit she had found a magnetic mail box cover with cardinals. She wanted to buy another one for a friend.
“Hmm… where do you suppose mail box covers are?” Tracy mused as we climbed the stairs to the gift shop portion of the store.
“We can ask somebody,” I suggested. “They’re very helpful here.”
Tracy said that it was more fun to wander the whole store looking for them, but a clerk overheard what we were looking for and took us right to them. Alas, no cardinals. The clerk, who truly was helpful, wrote down the information for the company that made the mail box covers, so Tracy could potentially find what she wanted online.
We wandered the rest of the gift shop anyways. Steven pointed out various things he had sent his sisters over the past year. Tracy and I admired some earrings. Tracy liked some sculptures. We did not see anything we had to have, though, so we took our leave with many thanks.
Normally I would have spent some time in the office supply section as well. Their selection of notebooks may not be as extensive as I’d like, but the pen section is excellent. I hesitate between rollerballs and ball points, or try to find something with green or purple ink. To me, you can’t have too many pens.
Hummel’s corporate headquarters is in Mohawk. They have retail locations in Rome and Utica as well as Herkimer. They also do a thriving online business. You can check out their website at http://www.hummelsop.com.
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