The Sales Floor Report

[Sword]

After two weeks of mind-numbing computer training, I finally got out on the Lawn and Garden sales floor Wednesday. Between then and yesterday I sold:
1 wood burning firepit
1 eight piece patio set
1 lawn tractor
1 bagging attachment for the tractor
1 3 year merchandise protection agreement for the lawn mower
1 miter saw(only because there was no one else in tools at the moment)
4 Chainsaws
4 rakes
2 pairs of reeboks at Sporting Goods.
2 Weedwhackers
2 bottles of chainsaw oil
Being new to sales, is twenty items in two days really good or par for the course?

[Spring Heeled Jack]

Considering the cost of the items you sold, I'd say you did pretty well. :D

[Glitch Girl]

Sounds pretty good to me.  Honestly though, don't know what kind of traffic your store sees, but it sounds pretty good.

[Sword]

For now, the traffic is pretty decent. We're getting mostly locals with a few out of state visitors for now until June 15th. That's when Cape Cod starts popping its seams with tourists and vacationers. Then the store will be jammed to the brim in all department.

I do have one quick question: I'm not allowed to sell to friends because of conflict of interest,  but is it wrong to sell to internet friends on the grounds that I've never met you face to face?

[stumpy]

I don't really know what the conflict is in the first place. Are you in a position to decide the prices of the items sold? If not, I don't see the problem. In many small towns, you basically couldn't do any shopping if you had to avoid all the salespeople who might be friends.

BTW, looks to me like your sales were pretty impressive.

[Dweomer Knight]

I don't really know what the conflict is in the first place. Are you in a position to decide the prices of the items sold? If not, I don't see the problem. In many small towns, you basically couldn't do any shopping if you had to avoid all the salespeople who might be friends.

Yeah, that seems kind of odd to me too.

DK

[Sword]

The issue is, I do have a button on the register marked "Misc reduction" for giving percentage and dollar amounts off sign price or dealing with coworker's employee discount. That part of the training was to cover the fact that if I have friends come in, I have to pass the sale to another salesman, else I could lose my job.

[stumpy]

So, you are in a position to decide the prices of items. Then there is at least some rationale for it, although a better rule would just be that you can't use the discount with your friends or some other oversight on the discount key.

Anyway, sounds like you are doing well. Good luck.

[Sword]

*sticks a sign marked OW!* into the ground.
Because I can't stay vertical for eight hours(bad hip+enormous weight), I have to take a three minute break every hour. HR found out about this need and cut my hours down to 20 a week. THis is good thing for me, but I still hurt.

[The Phantom Eyebrow]

Sorry to hear that Sword.  Sure even a slender (read: scrawny) fella like myself has trouble standing up all day. Hopefully you can find a good balance to allow you work as you need - I mean, can you not have a seat behind the counter or something?  I don't know the arrangement at the shop but there's always ways of working around things.  Not that a 20 hour week is bad in and of itself, but it seems you're good at selling and so if you could work a bit longer you could earn some more sponds surely?

[Sword]

nope no sittin'. As a sales rep, I have to wander the floor and help people buy things. I only get a thirty minute meal break on my four hour days, and the meal break and a fifteen minute break on the longer days.

[BlueBard]

nope no sittin'. As a sales rep, I have to wander the floor and help people buy things. I only get a thirty minute meal break on my four hour days, and the meal break and a fifteen minute break on the longer days.

That's about right for part-time hourly.  Takes me back to the days when I was a bagger at Kroger's.  That was... longer ago than I care to count.   :D

[Spam]

Sounds like your job is going good, except for the bad hip thing. That sorta sucks. =/ But I hope you are really enjoying this job, and'll stick with it for a while.

=)

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