A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #79 Hi Everyone! It’s been another busy week here in Norfolk, I have been very shop based, which hasn’t happened for a while.
On Monday, I was in the shop with Sarah, she rarely works in the shop on a Monday, but she did very well not to panic over her mountains of pickings. Afterwards I helped out the packing department to pack as many orders as possible! I served a group of young gentlemen, who I had served last year! They spent plenty of time talking about our incredible cigar selection. In the end they had a great selection between themselves and left very happy.
Tuesday was my marketing day. I worked hard to make sure all of the shop newsletters were ready to go out on Friday. I also wrote an article for the C.Gars cigar library about five cigars to enjoy over Halloween, I thought it would be the perfect time as Halloween was in two days. You can read it by clicking here, I also spent a lot of time taking pictures for it.
On Wednesday, I was back in the shop with Ciaran, we have started an in store only Christmas raffle. Tickets are £1 and you can potentially win a £100 voucher to spend in store! You must come into the Norfolk shop to enter. Ciaran and I have been selling plenty of tickets to our hopeful customers so you need to be in it to win it! After my pickings, I stocked up the pipe room. A lot of online customers have been taking advantage of our pipe sale and it really shows as the pipe displays need updating a few times a week at the moment.
On Thursday, It was Halloween! A great time of the year! I had the new world stock count to take care of with humidor manager Billy. In between we also had our bi-weekly marketing meeting. We discussed our Black Friday deals online and in store and boy do we have some great deals! Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to see what great bargains you can get. The week of Black Friday we are giving away a little gift each day to every customer that spends over £20 and this will culminate to Black Friday itself when we are doing a brilliant deal! After the New World stock count, I served a great customer who had travelled from Peterborough, he spent plenty of time looking around our humidor mainly for large cigars. I recommended a few that include the Mitchellero Peru Toro and the Rocky Patel Seed to Smoke Classic Toro.
On Friday, I was back in the shop with Ciaran, I took down all of the Halloween decorations, ready for the Christmas decorations to go up! I know it’s a bit early but it is the most wonderful time of the year! I also served a gentleman from where I came from… Birmingham!! He came on holiday and wanted some pipe tobacco that was similar to the Wilsons of Sharrow Inspiration. I asked Ben who specialises in pipe tobacco and he suggested the American Blends CC blend, which the customer loved, he then had a Liam’s mystery pouch, where you get a lovely leather puch with 25g of pipe tobacco inside. The customer left very happy and I always enjoy having someone from my homeland come in. In the afternoon, Ciaran and I completed the Cuban stock count.
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
