Sales Floor Set March 22, 2017

Spring season has been making its way through the business industry of retail. What does that mean? Well of course the sets of clothes have to be changed. Although, that doesn't really matter for the store at The Shops at Tanforan because it is an outlet store. So basically all the clothes we're getting are all transfers from regular full-priced stores. For the most part we're primarily getting winter clothes that didn't get sold. For this task I have to help the store manager and assistance managers bring out clothes that we know will sell right away. We had to plan out a floor set that makes sure that things will be noticed and will catch customers' eyes. I made some suggestions, and my mentor believed for some to be good because they were going to be noticed. One of a really good idea I suggested was to put all the extra 30% shirts and jackets on the same floor set of the cash register. This way when customers are about to check out, they would notice these products and they would not even give it a thought, but to just buy these jackets and shirts. Also, of course there were some ideas that my manager did not approve of just because it required for good noticeable products. What I mean by this, is that I thought that sweaters should be moved to certain closets where spring clothes were placed on.  My manager said it was a good though of me, but the only reason it didn't get approved was because people are more interested in buying the spring clothes than they are interested in those winter sweaters. I suggested we should still bring out the sweaters, and buy mentor said that we should make some sets of tables in the second room. So we did. My mentor told me that we have to precisely be careful where we choose to place every single item just because we need to make sure that it gets sold. He also said that we need to be sure that things are where they need to because the District Manager also needs to approve like she always does. The store manager and assistant managers are responsible for creating the floor sets at least every two weeks. I actually hadn't notice that they didn't base of from season, but biweekly. As opposed to a regular store, that is a whole different story. For my next task I will learn more about regular store floor sets at Serramonte.

Time logged for this session: 1 hour
Total time logged: 20 hours.

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