so i was really aggravated last night. we just had a major reset done in the cheese department, and i was focusing on the case, figuring out what i should cut. there was some chocolate that i needed to deal with and my big, pretty display i built a couple months ago got pulled down and replaced by rolling racks.
that was annoying, but because our regional analyst person talked to me about it, i was expecting that. i was annoyed because i thought it looked good and i had it somewhat organized the way i wanted it, and the new set had stuff mixed together and the tags were all mixed up. plus there was stuff everywhere.
more annoying, however was when our marketing guy — who was doing a demo in front of really big windows letting in the afternoon sun, came over and said “hey, chris, i thought you should know…your chocolate is melting.”
wtf? i go over to see the halloween display had been moved in front of the big windows since i last worked, with all my specialty halloween chocolate and, in fact, the chocolate had been melting. hi, chris, you need to do a chocolate reset. so i did. the result looks pretty good, but it was annoying to have to come in and deal with some scruffy-faced nerfherder’s brilliant idea to stick the halloween chocolate in front of the frickin’ window. i mean, seriously. whose brilliant idea was that? so far i’ve had no answers (not that i think anyone would take credit for it to me, considering how pissed i was). so here’s the new chocolate set, halloween candy included:
beyond the annoyance of having to do the reset, that’s $65 of lost chocolate now, that’s unsellable, and while that could have been a lot worse and we generally make a pretty big margin on most of the chocolate, it’s still lost sales and our department hasn’t been doing fabulous with the change in seasons, the economy, etc. not to mention the fact that my whole day was spent on that instead of other things.
so i came home and made myself feel better with an herb-crusted fleur de france brie and yummy cambozola (a german cross between the italian blue, gorgonzola and the french camembert brie) on la panzanella croccatini which, in my opinion, is the best cracker for cheese. they’re big flatbreads and kind of unruly, but they’re awesome and crunchy and not too thick like some other croccatinis. the cambozola was a bit more -zola than cam- having sat in our fridge for a few days, but still tasty. the evening was capped with some hornsby’s crisp apple hard cider which, i’ve decided, doesn’t suck.
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