02/22/2010
The last thing that I need is for the infant pajamas that I got for my sisters son, is for them to not fit. I got them on a clearance rack and so I cannot return them. When I saw the brand that they were, I noticed some similar ones hanging on a full price rack. I could not find anything wrong with the clearance infant pajamas so I took them up to the service desk to ask the girl if there was something wrong that I was just not seeing.
The girl at the customer service desk told me that when something is returned to the store, they automatically get put in the clearance section of the department they are from. I guess that she remembered a woman bringing back these and some girls pajamas just yesterday.
I decided to check out the girls pajamas department since there should be some discounted pj’s in there too. My daughter is six and if the size will fit her now, or sometime in the near future then I will get them for her and save a few bucks at the same time. I am hoping that if the discounted girls pajamas are there, that they are a good name brand too like the infant pajamas that I got for my nephew.
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02/09/2010
The safety supplies were all boxed up and ready to be shipped to the customer. I got this easy job, about six months ago when the cleaning products company I used to work for closed its warehouse that was so close to my house. I could walk to the warehouse when I was working for the cleaning products company.
I was devastated when I learned that my job would be over at the end of the month, along with twenty other employees. We had not seen it coming and with the way the economy is, we all knew that we would be lucky to find a job at all, let alone one that paid as well and was really close to home.
My sister was the one who helped me get into the safety supplies company. She knew the owners and that they were looking to hire a few extra people to load orders in the warehouse. The safety supplies ware house is a little bit farther from my house, but I just take a ten minute bus ride and then I am there. They pay me exactly what I was making at the other company, so I have never been without a paycheck which is more than I can say for the other twenty workers from my old job.
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02/02/2010
The search marketing campaign that our staff has been working on is in full swing and seems to finally be paying off. I know that we should back off and stop all the overtime but our boss wants us on either the first or second page to rank for office supplies. Our sales have gone up twenty percent with the introduction of the search marketing campaign and that was only just six months ago.
The numbers for the next six months should have us going up in sales another ten to twenty percent and then we are going to back down a bit. One of our brightest associates came up with this idea when he went to an online advertising Raleigh NC convention last year. He was not too sure it would work but after seeing how low our sales had dropped during the last quarter of last year, he thought it would be worth a try.
He brought in all the literature that he had bought at the online advertising Raleigh NC convention and we photocopied it and handed it to everyone in the office to have them all be prepared and understand what we needed to do. Everyone was willing to give it a try and it is now paying off.
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