Avatar photo A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #77

Hi everyone, another busy week passes us by here in Norfolk, plenty of customers popping in as well as other activities going on.

On Monday, I was in the shop with Josh, with an incredible amount of pickings to do. We worked together to get through the pickings as quickly as we could. After helping the packing department for a short while, I stocked up all of the cigar shelves in both of our humidors. During the day, I served plenty of customers, one of which was a younger gentleman, who doesn’t smoke regularly but wanted a cigar for his holiday. He only had £10 to spend, so instantly the Mitchellero range comes to mind, I suggested the Peru Gordo as that is £9.99 and is a very good cigar especially for the price. He left happy and went on with his day.

Tuesday was my marketing day. Firstly, I wrote an article for the C.Gars cigar library, it is all about Curivari cigars – you can read it here. I spent plenty of time taking the pictures, and I even had to do a re-shoot as one of the pictures didn’t come out the way I wanted. It is very annoying when that happens but it is part of the job and you always bounce back and the new picture is much better! Afterwards I started creating the shop newsletters for all of our other stores around the UK, it is always a treat to see what they have going on in their stores, each one is so unique that you wouldn’t be bored going to each one! You could do the “Tour de Turmeaus” if you wanted.

On Wednesday, I was back in the shop with Josh. I had my regular gentleman who comes in every couple of months. He always buys around 300 grams of different pipe tobaccos, which keeps him going until his next visit. This time he bought Century R & M blend, American Blends Delite and American Blends BC. As always we had a lovely chat and he always leaves happy. Later on in the day, Jerry from Stone Marketing (who provides ST Dupont products) visited to do some training all about the ST Dupont range. I let Josh go to the training session so he could gain all of the information and let the rest of us know what he learned. So now if you have any questions about ST Dupont don’t hesitate to ask us!

On Thursday, I was counting the New World humidor with humidor manager Billy. In between counting we also had our bi-weekly marketing meeting. We were discussing plans for Black Friday and I can tell you now, look out across all of our social media platforms as there will be some amazing deals to take advantage of. An ongoing deal we have at the moment is The Big Plasencia Sampler – this sampler contains four cigars including a limited edition that you can’t currently buy on our website without purchasing the sampler, the great part is, if you purchase this sampler, you also get the chance to win the incredible Plasencia Alma del Fuego Limited Edition Ometepe Humidor! (Cigars not included), make sure you enter now!

On Friday, I was in the packing department with Porscha. We had plenty of orders to pick and pack. I also got to see our regular customer Tony, he wanted to purchase the New World and Cuban subscription and the Sip ‘n’ Smoke podcast subscription. Instead of always staying subscribed he just comes into our shop and purchases when he wants to. This is only available in the Norfolk store as we hold all of the subscription stock here. Later on in the afternoon, I had to cover the shop as Josh was counting the Cuban humidor with Billy.

I hope you have enjoyed this weeks goings on and I hope to see you all in store soon.

So long for now

Oliver

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