A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #80 Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well, this will be a slightly shorter blog as I treated myself to an extra day off to relax but that doesn’t mean the Norfolk shop slows down, we have still been as busy as ever!
On Monday, I wasn’t in the shop at all! As always I help out where I am needed and this Monday I was needed in the packing department! I spend a lot of my Mondays helping out in packing, but this time I spent all day packing the many orders we had throughout the day. It really was a throwback to when I first started five years ago!
I had the following two days off, so I was back in the shop on Thursday, however I had to make it my marketing day too. Luckily, Sarah was alongside me and she was serving all of our lovely customers. I concentrated on writing an article for the C.Gars cigar library, it was about the difference between short filler & long filler tobacco in cigars, which you can read about here. I also spent some time taking the pictures, which included cutting open two cigars! It felt like I was breaking the law as I cut these two cigars in half but it was for research purposes so that made me feel slightly better. I then showed the rest of the team, so they can physically see and feel the inside of the cigars, and also see the difference between short and long filler for themselves. Afterwards I created a shop newsletter for Norfolk to promote what Black Friday deals we will have in store. One sampler we have on special offer for the whole of November is the CGars Exclusives Sampler. You get six incredible exclusive cigars for £59.99 which works out at less than £10 a cigar! You can get this terrific sampler in store as well as online! I am finalising our deals for the week of Black Friday but I can tell you on the actual day you will certainly want to visit!
I also served three gentlemen that wanted to get their manager a bottle of whisky as a leaving present. They mentioned he liked peated whisky so I suggested Laphroiag Lore, as I was discussing flavour notes I suddenly remembered, with a bottle of Laphroiag Lore, you can claim a piece of land in Scotland! As soon as I mentioned that they bought it immediately as they knew he would love that. They also purchased a Romeo y Julieta No. 2 to accompany, and then treated themselves to our in store Christmas raffle where they could win a £100 voucher to spend in store.
On Friday, I was back in the shop with Sarah. Once I had completed my morning online order pickings, I spent some time fully stocking our Cuban and New World humidors. I served a group of lovely ladies who wanted to get a bottle of our award winning Stalla Dhu Whisky, of course I said “Which one?” as many of the Stalla Dhu range have won multiple awards. They decided on a bottle of Saorsa (which had won four awards) and left very happy. In the afternoon, Josh and I completed the Cuban stock count.
On Saturday, Porscha returned after another week off! I was happy to see her and even more so as she came in with a lovely coffee for me! (Much needed after the terrible night sleep I had). We worked through stocking up the cigarillos as well as re-arranging the Cuban humidor.
I hope you have enjoyed this weeks goings on and I hope to see you all in store soon
So long for now
Oliver
