"The shop historically doesn't "hire and fire" people as say might a fast food restaurant. Historically, folks have made careers out of becoming a cutler working for the company. In other words, there isn't a lot of turnover. It is more of a problem finding folks that are trainable and willing to work that hard."

That is a good policy, would be great if more companies operate that way.

Buying Randalls as an investment is probably not the best idea, but you would be a lot better of then having stocks at the moment, lol

I just buy them because I like them and the history behind them, nothing more or less. If the prices would go down, I would buy even more.

I again THINK that if Randall wanted to, they could hire more staff, If NASA can get astronauts, Randall can get good employees. But I guess they prefer it this way and they probably have good reasons for doing so. Anyway, I hope they stay in business for another 80 years or more!