A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #72 Hello everyone! Hasn’t the weather gone chilly now! It certainly has in Norfolk. Being so close to sea really does bring a sea breeze all the way to our shop! It has been another busy week here in Norfolk, but it was great to see some of our regulars pop by.
On Monday, I was in the shop with Ciaran, we worked through our pickings, then I went into the packing department to help out as they had lots of orders and needed me to catch up on orders. I also served a lovely group of people who came from New Zealand! They were amazed with how the shop looked and the amount of cigars we have to offer. After a long look around they went away with three of our exclusive cigars, the Mitchellero Peru Robusto Extra, Plasencia Orchant Seleccion 2024 Orchante and the Regius Orchant Seleccion 2023 Peru Corona Gorda as well as a tin of Drew Estate Tabak Especial Oscuro. They went away very happy and they were great to serve too.
I had two days off and came back in on Thursday for my day of marketing. I started by researching my next article for the C.Gars cigar library. I had thought it had been a while since I had written one about spirits and when I was thinking about what brand, I looked around and saw an open bottle of Tomatin 14 year old and thought that is what I need to write about. So I did plenty of research and was amazed with the history behind the brand. So I wrote the article and found some pictures to go alongside, you can read the article here. I also took part in our bi-weekly marketing meeting. We discussed what samplers have been selling well and what we need to do more of, we are also preparing our Halloween marketing and I hope your ready as it all looks amazing! Of course we will be decorating the shop and doing a special Halloween offer in store too! Later in the afternoon, I completed the finishing touches to my part of the C.Gars magazine as well as sorting banners for the C.Gars cigar library as some pictures were not up to standard. To finish the day I started to create the shops newsletters ready for October, I hope you are subscribed to them all as these places look incredible!
On Friday, I was back in the shop with Porscha, I had a shop meeting with all the shop workers to discuss our Halloween marketing. We came up with some great ideas which you will see from the 1st of October! After the order picking, I served a lovely regular of mine who enjoys the Plasencia Orchant Seleccion cigars. He decided to pop by and purchase the Orchante and get on with his day, as always it was great to see him. We had another regular come in who loves his Inka Secret Blend Red Bombaso Maduro. Unfortunately, we have run out of stock of them in Norfolk so he tried something different. He knew he liked the Gurkha 15 year old Robusto, but he didn’t realise there was a Maduro version, so he was very happy and wanted to try something new. Knowing he likes Maduro cigars, I looked around and remembered that La Unica has a Maduro which is lovely, so he decided to try it. Hopefully I’ll see him soon.
On Saturday, I was joined by Porscha and Ciaran, we stocked up the humidors ready for a busy Monday and started changing the price tags on the Alcohol as well to make them similar to the ones we created for the pipes.
I hope you have enjoyed this weeks goings on in store and I do wish you would all visit very soon.
So long for now
Oliver
