Blink, maybe next year.
11/30/07 06:43 AM | Toil It
The Holiday season is in full swing. This weekend is the Multi-rep demo, which is exactly what it sounds like. It's true we have one sales rep who sells about 20 different product lines to us, but it is not just him. We will have multiple sales reps in the store hawking their wares, touting their unique differences and features, vying for the consumer dollar. We will not have an Wii's. Inventory that is the key. We have what we have, and getting more is going to be tougher with every terrestrial rotation. Come early, come often but don't come too late. 26 days. 23 more shopping opportunities, and we have the most popular, fastest moving cameras and accessories right now, but December means dwindling inventory. The X-mas eve shopper will be looking at the dregs, the early birds will have gorged on the fat worms of giftdom, and through it all there is one constant. One unfaltering (o.k. that's not true) constant. Me. This is my 19th December at Roberts, I am retail battle worn, scarred and hardened, I know the job at hand and I am prepared for the unexpected. Sure it could make others a little crazy to see what I've
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seen; the unseemly, sorrid, underside of human nature, greed, dishonesty, distrust. But I have an advantage, an ace up my sleeve. I was already crazy, and I know the product better than any part time seasonal, insincere make a holiday pay-check clark you might find in the big box stores. Ohh I'm brimming over with cheer, what?
Chuck Pace © 2007
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