The skaters gather requested items onto a conveyor belt that delivers the goods to the packing department, where delivery trucks are waiting.
Every Friday at 10pm, providing the weather is dry, up to 10,000 skaters gather at the Place d'Italie for the start of a gruelling but exhilarating 27km whizz round the city.
A small patch of broken mirrored glass can become an ice patch where some skaters can gather and skate together.
There was more talk of Mr. Kessler that evening at the Autumn Bowl, where young skaters who wanted to acknowledge his legacy gathered with longtime friends who had rolled with him as teenagers through nighttime streets.
A swarm of teens, some brazenly brown-bagging Budweiser tallboys, gather around a skater trying futilely to grind a ledge.
He was a regular in-line skater, so swift and slick that people used to gather just for the pleasure of watching him.
All three women short track speed skaters competing in Sochi had to reach out to potential private donors through a website called RallyMe.com to gather the funds necessary to afford a World Cup season, training, and ultimately a trip to Russia.
Still, I gather, gather, gather.
Two South Korean skaters.
