DAY 13 & 14

DAY 13

Today was not a busy day at all, I spent all of my time in the Childrenswear department replenishing stock and also bringing out new stock. In the end we must have took out around 25 totes worth of clothes!!

Although we didn't do much today other than put stock out, it was nice to take a break and have a quite calm job for the day!

DAY 14

Today started off with a really big job, since i had started my placement there had been a big wooden structure with little girl mannequins on at the front of the store but today i had been asked to move it upstairs onto a balcony over the shop-floor. It was quite a fun job, we had to dismantle the structure and carry it up the stairs and then cram all the mannequins in the lift and send it up. We then had to try and get the structure pieces round the balcony as there really wasn't alot of space and then set it up and place the mannequins back on the structure in the same order! It looked really good after we had done it and you could see it from the Children's department and from downstairs when you looked up!

The next job i was asked to do was to tidy up the men's trousers at the front of the store, this took quite a while as all the sizes were all mixed up and i needed to sort them into size order! I also added more offer tags to them too!

Although in the past week we had put up a lot of signs about the promotion going on in store and there was lot of tags and visuals about with the percentage off some of the products, there was still a lot of questions been asked about how much things were and weather the discount was already took off - so i was told to put out more obvious signs out with actual price points of some of the products. I had to go check the price at the till and then find visuals and plexi's to put out next to the products. Although i didn't put price points for every items in the promotion. doing this defiantly helped with the confusion of prices. 

The rest of the day was spent replenishing stock and just tidying up general areas which were messy! Tommorow will be my last day on the placement which is just shocking, I can't believe how fast these three weeks have gone and i've enjoyed it so much and learnt a lot!

DAY 12

When i walked into the store this morning it was all in the process off been re-arranged. I was given the task of helping out with accessories as the two accessories walls were getting condensed into one wall and then been filtered around the store. I had to sort the scarves into colours and then tie them on to the racks. 

I was then asked to help with some mannequins at the front of the store. I had to steam to the clothes so they were looking perfect when putting on the mannequins, un-tag them and then put them on the mannequins.

Because of the Spring seasonal offers going on instore the VM team had moved alot of the promo items to the front of the store to make customers more aware of them. I helped setting up plexi's with percentage signs all over the store so the customers had a better understanding of how much of a percentage was off the item. 

After lunch i tidied up the underwear and body section which get's very messy very easily, especially the table with knickers on. I had to sort them into sizes which took forever but it looked neat and tidy by the end! I also tidied up the sale as that get's messy very easily.

Last week i helped on a shirt display for the women's section and i was asked to go and liven it up abit. GAP has a very obvious style with the turned up sleeved and ruffled shoulders - i needed to portray this in the display and make it more alive and 3D. I turned up the cuffs and scrunched up the sleeves and also turned up the hem's!

After sorting out the display i had a couple of little jobs to do before the day was over such as bringing out mannequins, more tagging on the seasonal offers and then replenishing a few items. Today was a lot about making the in-store promo known to the customer and with moving the layout around it was a fun day!

DAY 11

I'm shocked that I'm already into my third and last week of my placement at GAP! Time has flown so quickly so i must be having a great time! Today was super busy doing lots of little tasks! The first thing was spending some time in the Childrenswear department checking tags on the tills to see weather they are included in the promo. I did put tags on some of the garments last week but all we had then was a list of the bar-codes and it was a matter of matching the codes. This was a lot easier but had to be done quickly before the store opened.

After tagging i was asked to re-organize the sale as it was really jumbled up and messy, i also had to sort it out in to colours. The photo i took was later on in the day so it looks messy already which happens really quickly. It must be really annoying for people who work there and have to sort everything out into a lovely layout to have it riffled through. I am always trying to keep it all tidy and neat as no one really wants to see clothes everywhere!

I was then asked to set up a display at the front of the store, this was for the GAP Loves stands which is the stores bestsellers for men and women placed at the front of the store on breezeblocks. I got asked to place the wooden breezeblocks at the front - which i got a splinter from (the injuries from VM Jobs!). I then dressed and styled the mannequins going on the blocks, I choose the beige mac as it is really popular and looks great on the mannequin. I then also had to place racks behind the mannequins with the products shown in front of them. This makes it easier for the customer to find the items in store!

The afternoon was very slow with lot's of little jobs. We spent most of the afternoon replenishing stock which isn't very fun but it gets you to know the stock abit better and where it's located in the store. Especially when you have to wander round the shop finding one item that may or may not need re-stocking. If the rail is full we have to send it back and backstock it. I also had to dismantle some racks to make room for others for seasonal offer rails.