Soup/Soy event.. didn't really start picking up until after 6 pm. Store is in a middle class suburb, everyone had to deal with traffic out of the city, pick up the rugrats and then scurry thru grocery store really fast to get home to feed the family.
Not many stopping for soup but I did give out over 50 samples of soy milk! Kids stopping and having the chocolate. Middle age women stopping to have both original and choclate because they had "never tried soy milk before".
Had two people switch and buy the 8th Continent instead of Silk soy milk based on sample and price.
I have a new crock pot.. one hour to heat up three cans of soup! Just as well, they only had 6 cans total of Chicken Noodle and none of the Chicken Rice w Vegetables in stock. Asked three different employees to please go look for more.. dairy stocker really tried to find a grocery side person without any luck (she also looked on her own and couldn't find extra product), two others told me "I don't do that", "we must be out" and walked away. Only used three cans and it lasted until 5:45, no one wanted soup. Progresso is not very popular here, kinda pricey compared to generic branded condensed soups when feeding a family.
Got an email about Sunday and the "high profile" AF sampler bar event.
Telling me to have LOD look for white MC logo box. I know my demo store has the bars , I saw boxes on Thursday in the demo area.. except mine were in regular brown boxes labled "AF Sampler Pack".
Hopefully they won't get lost by Sunday!
Brand new ST store, no demo captain, demo supply area is a DISASTER. Makes for a frustrating demo set up, all of us from MC/TMT laugh it off and make do with what we can find.
Then I am coming in 2 hours after everyone else. I am prepared for a disaster already.
