Hello everyone from the Norfolk warehouse! It has been a truly fascinating week here at the Norfolk Warehouse! A lot has changed for me and our shop sadly doesn’t longer looks like a shop anymore – But onwards and upwards, we will be a fantastic warehouse!
On Monday, we had the usual mountain of online orders! It seemed like lots but as a team we got through them incredibly quickly. I have noticed a lot of people are enjoying our special thank you cigar – The Vegafina 1998 Short Robusto. You can find this at the checkout page. It’s a nice little add on for £12 instead of £21.49! An incredible discount, but you can only purchase this once. After I completed my online orders, I then set to work checking all of our cigars that have gone out of stock and added what we still have online. I’m slowly getting through a long list of cigars that are currently out of stock and seeing if we can get them back – So you may see some of your old favourites make a comeback. Afterwards, I stocked up our Cuban humidor and started placing an order. As many of you know, Cuban stock is very hit and miss, we never truly know what we are going to get in our next delivery. We order what we need but if our fabulous supplier doesn’t have the stock then we have to go without. I spent a lot of time ordering what I felt we needed and luckily we got most of what I wanted. We had quite a few orders for Click and Collect, which I was happy about – We did still have a few that missed the memo about our shop closing but once I explained, they understood and soon ordered online.
On Tuesday, I focused on creating a new article for the C.Gars cigar library. I was about How Much Do Cohiba Cigars Cost in the UK – You can read it by clicking here. Afterwards, I contacted all of the shops to get ready for their shop newsletters. I still get excited to see what they have to offer for their customers. Later on in the day, I was organising sending the last few bits of the shop to other stores for them to get use out of. Again it was another sad moment, but I am loving my new role currently.
On Wednesday, I started my day by picking online orders and then afterwards I sorted through our out of stock list. I am always in contact with my manager and assistant manager as I am new to this sort of role but it seems to be whatever I have asked, I have been correct about. I have been shown how to see how certain cigars perform sales wise and then been able to decide from that if we need to order more. It has been incredibly interesting. Meanwhile the rest of the team have been moving around our pipes. Our pipe room looked beautiful but not suitable for a warehouse and so now we have moved them so they are fully in alphabetical order and easy to pick. In the afternoon, I stocked up our New World humidor and ordered some new stock. We have had a delivery of a very interesting cigar, it’s from a brand that I am unfamiliar with. It’s called Warped Isla Cocodrilo Corona Gordos – The name Isla Cocodrilo translates from Spanish as “Island of the Crocodile” which is a tribute to Cuba, long said to resemble a Crocodile.
Thursday was stock count day. Lisa and I decided to do it a bit different – We completed the Cuban humidor in its entirety and then moved to New World humidor to complete that room. It certainly worked as we completed it by 2.30! Which is incredible! So afterwards, I worked on getting more cigars in stock. I also compiled a list of cigars which wasn’t selling to check that they were online.
On Friday, I helped out in the packing department! I packed a lot of awkward orders to help the packing team pack the orders that were priorities. Afterwards, I decided to re-arrange my desk. As previously we were a shop, I didn’t have much freedom on my desk but now I can do what I like, so I got a monitor which is high up so I’m not looking down at a laptop screen and moved around some electricals to make my desk nicer. In the afternoon, I started writing a new article – This one is to celebrate the C.Gars top 10 cigars of 2025! I like to do this yearly, but so far this year, I haven’t had the chance to get around to it as I have been learning the new cigar library style.
I hope you have enjoyed this weeks blog.
So long for now.
Oliver.