A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #71 Hello everyone! I hope you have had a brilliant week? Mine has been interesting to say the least!
On Monday, I wasn’t in the shop for a change! I had a slightly late start so missed the first round of online orders and so I went into the booking on department to book on the parcels. As always we worked well as a team and by the end of the day we were swimming in parcels!
Tuesday was my marketing day, I spent a lot of time researching my article for the C.Gars cigar library. In the end I settled on writing about Casa 1910 cigars, I think they’re a very underrated brand, but they are starting to win awards which will prove how good they are. You can read the article here. I also spent some time taking the pictures, recently our marketing manager gave me a bit of feedback with my pictures and so hopefully these ones represent what he wanted. I also created a news article about the new Bolivar Belicosos Finos 60th Birthday Orchant Seleccion. These cigars have been flying off the shelves and really shows the quality of an Orchant Seleccion cigar.
On Wednesday, I was working with Josh… Partly. After my morning order pickings, I helped out in the packing department, they were a bit overwhelmed with a few deliveries so I helped where I could, using my packing experience I gained when I first started. Robyn and I packed all of the orders and so, knowing I wasn’t needed in packing, I moved back into the shop with Josh. We filled up the humidor shelves and gave it a bit of a clean. I also got to serve a semi regular customer who has been coming into the store for a very long time, his cigar selection has gone down in recent years, however his humour hasn’t changed. This time he had two Eagle by Rocky Patel Torpedo, a Rocky Patel Number 6 Corona and then let me select his last one, which I suggested the Plasencia Orchant Seleccion 2024 Exclusive Orchante. I remembered previously he enjoyed the Plasencia Orchant Seleccion Toro 2021 and so I knew he would enjoy this new release.
On Thursday, I was meant to be doing the New World Stock take, however, Billy, our humidor manager, was too busy and suggested we do it on Friday as well as Cuban (he’s a bit crazy like that), so I set myself up to do other administrative tasks, however the person booking on orders went home. So I moved into the shop with Ciaran and Sarah booked on! What a muddle! However we worked through it and had another great day. In the afternoon I had two gentlemen come in who had recently finished construction on a bridge in a local town of Lowestoft and the team wanted to celebrate. The two that came in treated themselves to Regius Connecticut Gran Toro and got the rest of the team Mitchellero Peru Toro. They went away very happy. We also had our marketing meeting to discuss the C.Gars magazine. It will be getting made very soon, with a few minor adjustments. You can actually register your interest by clicking here.
On Friday, it was the dreaded New world and Cuban stock count! Billy was confident we could get it done. We smashed it! We got it done with an hour to spare! I couldn’t believe it! It really felt like a great achievement.
I hope you have enjoyed this weeks goings on and I hope to see you all in Norfolk very soon.
So long for now
Oliver
