A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #63 Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying July! But I have one question… Where is the sun?! Well regardless of the weather, we are still open and happy to see you all!
On Monday, Josh and I were non-stop, quite literally! We had mountains of online orders to pick, it was like a never ending stack of orders! And in between we were serving customers too, it felt like every time we decided to take 5 minutes to rest, another customer would come in! We always enjoy serving our customers and our service was still top tier despite our hidden tiredness. It was during this period that Josh served a lovely gentleman who had travelled for over an hour and a half with his niece to our store! Josh served the gentleman, while I stayed with his niece, keeping her entertained while the gentleman chose his cigars. She took advantage of our in store coffee machine, enjoying a hot chocolate, and we had a general chat. I was amazed when Josh came back out with an incredible amount of cigars on the tray! It took us both a little while to put his cigars through the till but we got there in the end and it was the most Josh has ever taken in one transaction, I could see the joy in his face, and when the customers left he needed 5 minutes to relax. It can be really draining being with a customer for a long time, staying focused and helping them with their cigar selection. But after he rested, he was back to serve and pick his orders. Later on he decided to treat himself to a box of his new favourite cigar – The Drew Estate Tabak Especial Toraja as well as a few other cigars. A well deserved treat.
Tuesday was my marketing day, I decided I wanted to create a whisky article for the C.Gars cigar library, as it had felt like it had been a long time since I created one. So I looked around the Norfolk store and there was a bottle that stood out for me – Glenglassaugh. I spent a lot of time researching about the brand and I was fascinated by how many times the distillery had closed and reopened. You can read more about it by clicking here. As well as my article I emailed all of our stores to start thinking about their content for the August shop newsletter. As always it was interesting to see what they have going on in store. I also had a meeting with our shop staff to see what they wanted to promote in the store, so I could begin creating the content. If you are signed up to our newsletters, you will see what we have in store for you.
On Wednesday, I was booking on parcels, ready for dispatch, I do get a little nervous doing this as I haven’t done it much, however, I would like to think it was a success as all the parcels were booked on and ready to be shipped!
Thursday was New World stock count day with our humidor manager Billy, as always we were super quick at doing this, but this time we needed to be very fast as I was leaving early for a family event. We got to a point where there was only a few brands left before I had to go, so Billy was able to complete the rest by himself.
On Friday, I spent some time doing general shop housekeeping and then in the afternoon, it was time to do the Cuban stock count. For the first time I had the help of Porscha, she has recently started working Friday’s so this may be a new tradition for us both.
I hope you enjoyed this weeks going on and I hope to see you all in store really soon.
So long for now.
Oliver.
