A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #81 Hi everyone, a slightly earlier blog this week as I am treating myself to a four day weekend. We have been busy as ever with online orders and as well as our in store customers.
On Monday, I was back in the shop with Sarah. We worked through all of our online orders, and there were loads!! In the meantime, I had a regular customer come in and treat himself to the Rocky Patel Orchant Seleccion sampler, as well as the Aladino Cameroon Robusto. He also purchased an in store raffle ticket for our Christmas raffle prize, A £100 in store voucher! You have to be in it to win it!
Tuesday was my marketing day. I started by researching and writing an article for the C.Gars cigar library, it was about the health benefits of whisky, which you can read here. I also spent some time taking the pictures. Afterwards I created two shop newsletters, they are both brilliant and are ready for Christmas. In the afternoon, I took some more pictures – Firstly were the cigars of the month for December, which are two incredible picks! Afterwards I took a Christmassy picture for the other monitor in our humidor, showcasing a few items you could purchase as gifts, ready for Christmas! Let me know what you think?
On Wednesday, we welcomed back a friendly face. For those of you who have been visiting Norfolk will be pleased to see Sharon back! She is working one day a week, just to get herself back into it. I showed her how to update pricing on the till system, and she even served a customer! It was brilliant. I also served a gentleman who I served a while ago and even sold him his first proper cigar. He came back for more Tabaks and another recommendation, he loved the Regius Serie Limitada but wanted to try something new. In the end he decided on the Casa Turrent 1880 Maduro Robusto, he then saw the tubed Kristoffs and decided to try the Sumatra as he loved the tube! He purchased five raffle tickets and left very happy. I do enjoy serving him.
On Thursday, I was counting the New World stock with humidor manager Billy. We stopped in between for our bi weekly marketing meeting. We talked about all the great feedback we had for the C.Gars magazine, as well as the future. We also discussed a new loyalty points scheme we have set up called C.Gars Plus! You need to sign up but you will see some incredible benefits for signing up. Log in to your account and you will see it!
I hope you have enjoyed this weeks goings on and I will see you all after my long weekend.
So long for now.
Oliver.
