Everyone knows the ads, you can find the confidence to rollerskate,climb a mountain, beat boys at sports and so on if you want to the minute you use the product. The fact that the reality is during this period(no pun intended!)you are more likely to: display frayed temper, get unexplicably drunk on two drinks, keep Cadburys in business or generally be the person people say yes to due to fear, delete as applicable. Not to mention the fact I don't climb mountains due to fear of altitude sickness and an aversion to waste holidays for anything not involving sun, frozen cocktails and shopping. Beating boys at sport, recipe for relationship tension!
That said the feminine hygiene market was rumoured to be worth £13billion in 2010 and with the world developing and girls reaching puberty earlier this is set to continue rising! Therefore marketing departments would be foolish not to keep their profile high and keep women buying. With stores producing cheaper 'own ranges' big brands have to pull something out the bag to keep consumers purchasing. From free lipglosses to discounts at online retailers everyoine is vying for their market position.
This all contributes to how I found myself wrestling a gigantic box out of an mx5 in the middle of August heat-thankfully dry as the roof had to go down to accomodate the box. When the agency had asked was I able to take delivery of few items of promotional stock to take to store I had envisaged the usual t-shirt and flyers, instead I was greeted by a massive box containing a self-assembly cardboard wardrobe!Groan! Not even sure how to store it in my flat or how I would get it into my highly impractical car I smiled weakly and signed for the delivery.
Thursday came around and I miraculously managed to find a parking space not a million miles away from the store and wrestled the box out of the car. unfortunately as the store was on a pedestrianised street I had to lug the blatantly branded box along to jokey comments and blatant innuendos! I arrived, found the spot and set to work assembling th 'wardrobe' and filling with all products. The schoolboys sniggering around the condoms I could handle-not even I am mean enough to tell the overweight and acne ridden ones that the condoms will expire before they use them. They are harmless but the men with wedding rings, you have a wife and potentially children surely sanitary towels aren't that amusing?Or women, really need I say more! The 'wardrobe' was of poor quality and almost collapsed many times. I over stuffed the various products into the 'wardrobe'. I watched people pretend to not look at the deals and offers. As the day drew to a close I collated the number of menstruating women/planners who purchased.I had engaged women in conversations about their 'flow' needs and various other things only a gynecologist should be party to-certainly not someone on £8/hr. It was definately the day which should end in a large glass of Sauvingon Blanc.
Imagine my "amusement" when the agency told me the sales figures were not in line with the national average!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry about that can't really dictate when people menstruate! No bonus so a cringe worthy day on minimum wage. Love it!
On an aside my best friend JT had signed up fo the same job on Scotlands East coast but on seeing the boxes she did what any sensible person would/should do she refused delivery!
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