Avatar photo A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #83

Hi everyone! I hope you all have been enjoying Black Friday week! Online ordering has been very popular.

On Monday, I had another change! I spent my day in the parcel booking department. There were plenty of orders and I was busy all day putting parcels onto the system. We had the postman come four times due to the volume of parcels we had for them!

On Tuesday, I was back in the shop with Sarah. We had plenty of people take advantage of our special offer in store. For one day only we did spend £20 and get a free miniature of C.Gars Malt. I had a great gentleman come in who had wanted to purchase a bottle of the C.Gars Malt for a while but always put it off, so he was so happy when we gave him a miniature for free! In the meantime I spent plenty of time stocking our shelves ready for one of the busiest days of the year! Friday we are expecting plenty of customers and we need to prepare beforehand. 

On Wednesday, in the morning, I was in the shop with Josh. We focused on picking orders and updating our till systems. We have had so many price changes recently that it has been taking a lot of our time. In the afternoon, Ciaran took over from me in the shop, so I could focus on my shop newsletters. It is horrible having a time constraint against you but I always get there in the end and it’s nice that other staff are willing to help me in any way they can. Towards the end of the day, I planned out January’s subscriptions (it’s crazy that I’m even thinking about January right now). It’s looking like another great bargain that you need to get your hands on!

On Thursday, we were short staffed due to illnesses. Normally I would be doing the New World stock count with Humidor manager Billy, however, we decided to let Sarah have a go as I felt it would be a great experience with her and will expand her knowledge on where the product is. So I was running the shop on my own and had to do all of the cigar online pickings and there were loads! I didn’t stop until long into the afternoon! At the end I was worn out! But afterwards I still helped Sarah and Billy complete the stock count. In the middle of my pickings, I served two great gentlemen who wanted to get their father a cigar to enjoy over Christmas. They treated themselves to our Mitchellero Peru range as well as a nice EMS tube to put one of them in. They also took part in our special in store Christmas raffle! It’s just £1 a ticket and you can win a £100 voucher!

On Friday, it was the big day! Black Friday! We were running 20% off everything in store! So it was a case of get what you can as you will be saving a lot of money! We had plenty of online orders to keep us all busy too. It truly was a non-stop day

I hope you all enjoyed this Black Friday week special and I hope to see you all in Norfolk very soon

So long for now

Oliver

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