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Date: 31 January 2004 11:49:22
Friday I was to relieve others for their lunch breaks then run the Men's Denim area for the night.
I did do Denim- and had a pretty good evening, about $3500 on the register and half of it mine-
But the plan to run about to several departments blew up. My first relief when I came in at noon was to cover Troy in Men's Suits. So there I was, my favorite department I guess -- not least because the gentlemen come in and I get to tell them what to try on...
But with the extra 30% sale, and with so many suits at really big discounts this time of year, the guys buy two or three suits at a clip.
I ended up staying there three hours and pinning three men for alterations and making perhaps $900 for my quota. Not too bad.
Of course I love even more working with so many customers when the suits are not so discounted. That is pretty much a January phenomenon, to make way for new Spring stock.
You can get a $500 Hart-Schafner-Marx suit for a couple hundred $ after all the discounts. Austin Reed, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger -- discounts on most everything.
This works out well, since the Spouse needs a suit right now. Our 18-year-old son will marry in a few days. First time we've bought a suit in 15 years.
After that 3-hour-lunch in Suits- heh- Troy was sweet, I worked my customers until they were done and Troy went off in all his tall be-suited glory to work my hip-hop horde for me--
I went to lunch myself, then came back and bought about $120 worth of clothing for about $35. <grin> THAT was fun. Got a nice silk shirt and some vivid T-shirts and a fleece pullover. Roundtree, Dragonfly, Nautica. Nice stuff.
Then I hustled like a tornado thru Denim, handling the shoppers and dusting places that never get dusted- a regional manager will be with us this morning - and she has this rep of being a real dragon, a dragon wearing white gloves...
And things were so wild in my spread-out area, clothing falling off hangers and folded badly, you know how a sale makes the people rummage- that all the Cosmetics girls descended on us, at store closing, just for 5 minutes or so, but all those pretty laughing ladies swirling through straightening things out really made a difference. (Besides, it gave them a chance to shop! Now they know what to come and buy from me today, hee!)
Then after work I gathered up my bags and walked down to Cuco's, the Mexican restaurant across the Mall, for Trina's farewell evening. (She's moving on to manage a shoe store. I gave her a gag gift- a shoehorn imprinted with our store logo, heh.) Cuco's is set up to look like a little run-down, old-fashioned Mexican cantina. I had my beer (non-alcholic of course) and chicken quesadillas to die for.
Then I rode home with Dot- it's nice working with Dot, we worship together as well. <grin> She's still the same sharp little cookie at work as at church.
That's two days in a row, working all day and playing all evening. Wow, some sort of record for quiet little homebody me.