A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #82 Hi everyone! I hope you all have been staying safe in the snow and ice? We have had more ice than snow here in Norfolk, but we have still seen plenty of customers come through the door.
My week started on Tuesday! I enjoyed a lovely long weekend and came back to mountains of price changes! Unfortunately the budget hasn’t been too kind to us tobacconists and a lot of prices have risen but not by a lot which we are thankful for! Porscha and I worked through changing the prices on the till system as well as creating price tags for our shelves. We did receive some help from Ciaran and Sarah putting the price tags out but the overall price changes took us all day!
Wednesday was my regular day off and so I returned on Thursday, and it was my marketing day. Over my long weekend I had been asked to do a couple of tasks. One of which was uploading an article to the C.Gars cigar library about the exquisite Mash Tun distillery tour! I had been provided the text and images, so it was a case of editing pictures, cropping the size and uploading. You can read it by clicking here. I have been writing and uploading articles for almost five years now so these kind of tasks are very easy for me now. I also researched and wrote my own article about shaggy foot cigars, otherwise known as wilde cigars. I actually learned a lot writing this article, you can read it by clicking here. I spent some time taking pictures for it too.
I had recently had some feedback from our marketing manager about my content. Most of it was good, however he did say I need to improve on using different backgrounds and props to help enhance the products, so hopefully you will all be seeing the difference very soon! Later on that day I started creating the shop newsletters. Again it is brilliant seeing what they come up with and some of the very creative photography is incredible!
On Friday, I was back in the shop with Josh. We worked through our morning online order pickings and then we moved onto another task I was asked to take care of. Up until Christmas the Foragers, Ybet and El Rumbo spirits are a whopping £10 off! So I was asked to update the display to show as much of the range as possible as well as the poster. Make sure you come in store soon to take advantage of this brilliant offer. I also served a great young couple who had never come in before. All they were interested in was our shisha tobacco, however they were amazed by the shop and wanted a full tour! I happily showed them around and they made some more small purchases, which they wouldn’t have made without a proper look around. They left very happy and took a copy of the C.Gars magazine with them too! In the afternoon, Josh and I completed the Cuban Stock count.
On Saturday, I was with Porscha and Josh. I do enjoy my Saturday shifts as there isn’t as many online orders to pick and so I get to spend some more time with customers. We had a lovely gentleman come in who had been bought a pipe by his son, he wanted some light and fruity flavoured tobacco. We recommended American Blends as they are not too harsh and are full of flavour. He then started to ask about how to pack your pipe and if you need filters. I gave him my advice but if you are wondering about a similar question you can find out more by looking on the C.Gars cigar library. We have loads of hints and tips on there! Most of which I wrote myself. Later on in the day Josh, Porscha and I changed our displays as accessories had been incredibly popular recently, so we have started to run low.
I hope you enjoyed this weeks goings on in Norfolk and I hope to see you all very soon
So long for now
Oliver
