Stalla Dhu Tasting, Quorum Article, Returning Happy Customers and New American Blends Tins

Hi everyone, It has been another brilliant week in Norfolk! We have had plenty of regular faces as well as holiday makers. 

On Monday, it was Josh and I in the shop. We had loads of online orders to pick, but we never run away from a challenge. We worked together to pick all the orders to the best of our ability. Afterwards, I went into the packing department to help pack a lot of the orders I just picked (as well as others of course). We were like a well oiled machine and by the end of the day we had packed all orders! We celebrated by trying one of our new Stalla Dhu expressions! We tried the Auchroisk 12 Year Old Margaux Cask Finish – the strength of the alcohol certainly comes through but so does a nice sweetness too. You will see this online very soon.

On Tuesday, I was back in the shop. I started the day by helping pick online orders. Afterwards I served a great gentleman who was the head groomsman for a wedding and wanted to get some cigars for the wedding. There were around 8 people who would be smoking and so we were looking at boxes of 10, however none in stock were fitting in the budget. So I explained about the Mitchelleros and how they are a budget price but a great cigar! He took 12 in the end in case anyone else wanted a cigar. I then showed him how to cut a cigar and explained how we have a video about it on Youtube! (You can watch it by clicking here). I hope he enjoyed them and will be back for more. I spent a lot of time stocking up the New World humidor and ordering stock to fill up our shelves. 

On Thursday, I was in the shop again but I had a lot of promotional work to get on with! I started by finalising the shop newsletters, ready to be sent out the next day. I did have to take a picture for one of the shop newsletters and I was pretty proud of myself. What do you think? Afterwards I took some pictures of the August cigars of the month and to top it off, I took pictures of Quorum cigars. Afterwards I then wrote an article on the C.Gars cigar library about Quroums, I have had plenty of customers mention how they’re a good cigar, so I wanted to find out more about them and it is very interesting. You can read the article here. Meanwhile, I served a lovely lady who wanted to get her husband a couple of cigars for his birthday. The gentleman is well known to myself as he was a regular when I first started at C.Gars! When I asked for a budget, she said “don’t worry about that” – You don’t need to tell me twice! So I suggested cigars I knew he would like without looking at price tags. I remembered he had purchased the Davidoff Winston Churchill Limited Edition 2022 Perfecto many years ago, so I suggested the Davidoff Winston Churchill The Artist Limited Edition 2025 Churchill. She then wanted a Cuban for him, so I suggested the Partagas Cedros Year of the Snake as it was a new release from Habanos S.A. Without a thought she said yes and then treated him to a Cigarism Jet Flame Lighter, Cutter & Cigar Stand Gift Set in Silver. I hope her husband enjoys it all! I know I would! 

In the afternoon, I started to organise the Corn Cob pipes. We have such a large variety of Corn Cob pipes, we can’t display them all! So if there is any in particular you are looking for let us know as we probably have it. I served a returning new smoker, I actually wrote about him in a previous blog post – A Day in the Life of a Retail Assistant #112 – He returned with big smiles! He loved the Davidoff Winston Churchill Traveller Belicoso and purchased another one. He has also done some more research and decided he wanted to try the Drew Estate Factory Smokes, he asked me which one is best between Shade and Maduro – A hard decision but I do love a Maduro, so I suggested the Maduro. He then bought himself a lighter we have on offer at the moment – the C.Gars Ltd Lotus Cigar Torch Lighter – Solo Jet – Carbon Fibre Finish – We currently have it for half price in the Norfolk store only. So make sure you pop in to take advantage of this offer. 

On Friday, I was online order picking with Will and Josh. In between picking, I stocked the shelves a little and packed a few orders to help the packing department. Meanwhile we had received stock of all American Blends Pipe tobacco in tins and so we wanted them all out on display. Josh went to work, figuring out where it can all go on our already very stocked shelves. He shuffled some around and made some space, however he was stopped to complete the Cuban stock count. Unfortunately, Josh had to complete it on his own as there was a lot of online orders still to complete! He did a very good job as did the rest of the team. So to celebrate the end of the week! We tried another new Stalla Dhu, this time it was the Craigellachie 12 Year Old Rye & Ruby. It was another delicious tasting, if you like a whisky with plenty of spice and underlying sweetness, this is the one for you. I am enjoying trying these new Stalla Dhu expressions and it will certainly help sell them to our customers.

On Saturday, it was Josh, Will and myself. We got through our online pickings and then Will packed all of the orders to give us a head start for Monday. Meanwhile, Josh and I continued organising the pipe tobacco tins to fit the new American Blends in. It was tough but we got there in the end. We then stocked the shelves ready for a busy Monday.

I hope you have enjoyed this week’s blog and I hope to see you all in Norfolk very soon.

So long for now.

Oliver

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