Love Is In The Sales

Here on the day of love we rose to the challenge of adding a bit of Valentines 'Theatre' to our stores by going one step further than the usual balloons, ribbons and floral extravaganzas.

We decided we would co-opt a member of staff into playing our very own in store cupid!

We chose the traditional depiction of a curly haired cherubic cupid and dressed the staff member accordingly. With the aid of his moms rollers,(for the curls) and a nappy( adult incontinent pants, cheap and surprisingly absorbent!) he certainly looked the part. Initially he was reluctant to stride round the store dressed only in a nappy but once threatened with counselling he soon relented . I checked where we stood on that with Janet T and she confirmed it was a reasonable request to get a staff member to aid with sales.....

The incontinent pants served a dual purpose as we were able to keep him out there for hours without the need of toilet breaks.....

Unfortunately the lads somewhat wholesome figure tended to frighten some of the female customers as he followed them around with his bow and arrow, and we also had to abandon suspending him from the ceiling due to safety concerns. The 100 or so clipstrips proved insufficient to hold him and we didn't want some poor unsuspecting customer suddenly piggy backing a half naked cupid around the food to go!