A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #87 Hi everyone, I have actually enjoyed plenty of time off this week, but I have seen the rest of the team have kept our customers very happy with plenty of cigars and spirits.
I came back in on Thursday and it was my marketing day. Firstly I had our first marketing meeting of the year. We discussed how well our Christmas and New Year marketing went and then discussed our plans for Burn’s night and looked ahead to April Fools day, which will be brilliant! Keep an eye out for that! We then started to discuss the spring/summer edition of the C.Gars magazine. If you have ordered on C.Gars recently, you would have received the autumn/winter edition, which has been enjoyed by many. I look forward to taking part in the next magazine and seeing what brilliant content we create. Afterwards I started writing my article for the C.Gars cigar library, it was about a commonly asked question – the impact of cigar size on flavour. This one was a fascinating read for myself and I’m sure you will enjoy it too. You can read it by clicking here. Afterwards I spent some time taking pictures for the article. In the afternoon, I wrote a news article about the new My Father The Judge. I have looked forward to seeing these as I know they are incredibly popular in the USA and I decided to take a nice picture of them too for the news page, which you can see here.
On Friday, I was back in the shop with Josh. I got through our online order pickings and started to stock up our humidors. The New World humidor needed a lot of attention as New World cigars have been very popular with our customers recently and I can’t blame them. I prefer New World cigars as I find they have a lot more flavour to them due to the brands being able to experiment with different blends of tobacco from different countries. After stocking I ordered extra stock that we were running low with as well as worked on putting new ranges out. You’ll have to come in-store to see what we have! Meanwhile one of my regular customers came in to purchase two boxes of Regius Orchant Seleccion 2023 Hermosos as well as using his online points for two bottles of Ramos Pinto 10 year old Tawny Port, it certainly seems like he’s in for a great night! In the afternoon, Josh and I worked through the Cuban stock count.
On Saturday, Porscha and I were joined by Ciaran. He was happy to be in and helped us stock up the shelves in the shop as well. We also changed one of the display cases, we decided to take our selection of aftershave back into the store room and put out a brilliant range of cigar ashtrays. I find ashtrays are a very underrated accessory which makes them a brilliant gift.
I hope you have enjoyed this slightly shorter blog and I hope to see you all in Norfolk very soon.
So long for now
Oliver
