Avatar photo A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #75

Hello everyone! A slightly shorter blog today as I enjoyed Monday and Tuesday off travelling around Norwich, a beautiful city if you ever get a chance to visit!

My work week began on Wednesday, I was back in the shop with Josh and I was amazed at how the rest of the staff had decorated the shop for Halloween! It is the best I have ever seen!. I had an interesting day to say the least, we often get customers coming in not knowing what they want but their partner has sent them in to get some cigars. The lovely lady came in, was told to get a few cigars as a present for a friend but didn’t have a clue what to get. So I had to recommend cigars that are good for anyone, beginner or experienced. The first thing that came to my mind was the Mitchellero Peru range, slightly sweeter and a great smoke for the price! The lady wanted one more so I suggested the Plasencia Reserva Original Robusto, a favourite of mine and is very easy to smoke and full of flavour. She bought a couple of our C.Gars event lighters too and left very happy. Later on I had another Lady come in for her husband with no idea what to get, however she did say he was an experienced smoker so I suggested the Plasencia Orchant Seleccion Orchante, as the charred oak flavour you get is second to none! I also suggested the Tabernacle David, one of the best made cigars you can get and full of flavour too! Another customer left very happy.

On Thursday it was my bi-weekly stock count with humidor manager Billy, however to spice up our day we also had our marketing meeting on the same day! So we powered through a quarter of our stock and then went for our meeting. We discussed plenty about ongoing marketing and what we could be doing better. We were also treated to a few gifts from Mitchell as a well done for creating the C.Gars magazine to a brilliant standard. After our meeting, Billy and I continued with the stock count. We finished quite late in the afternoon but I did have time to create the New World Cigar Subscription. It has another 5 great cigars and a bargain price!

On Friday, I was back in the shop with Josh, I worked through our alcohol pricing and updated the labels to make them much clearer. In the afternoon we completed the Cuban stock count, which I think we both know like the back of our hands.

I hope you enjoyed this shortened blog but don’t you worry, It will be back to normal next week!

So long for now

Oliver

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