Thursday, February 12, 2009

Del Sol Me Baby!!!



So more about the company that I am doing the internship for and what my job duties include. Del Sol was started in 1994 in a kiosk in the Fashion Place Mall in Utah...which is crazy cause now we don't even have a store in Utah just the corporate headquarters but there are 110 stores worldwide mostly in the carribean and tourist locations, a little confusing for many tourists and customers to understand when they find out all of us working in the store are all from Utah haha. The concept was taken from NASA technology when the shields on the astronauts helmets would change color when the UV rays from the sun hit it in order to block out the glare. Del Sol used this idea and incorporated it into clothing starting with the famous the color changing T-shirts. Now we have color changing sunglasses, board shirts, sunglasses, hats, flip flops, necklaces, bracelets, rings, keychains, nail polish, hats, visors, stuffed animals, frisbees, yo-yos, watches, and all shirts are adult children toddler and infant styles and sizes. It's a really legit business and it's continuing to grow about two stores every month, which is big with the economy the way it is right now. So when I'm not relaxing and bathing in the sun I am at the store "wowing" people with the coolest products ever made. There are sun stations (filtered UV ray lights) all around the store and so I am able to show people demos of how the product changes in the sun inside the store and than they can do it for themselves. I also help manage inventory-restocking, reordering, checking, counts, etc. I do cashiering and opening/closing of the store. I'm gaining a lot of skills and knowledge about running a store and the managers work really close with us so it is gonna be helpful for my school and future career which rocks. We work about 30-35 hours a week and its usually in the shifts of 9-3 or 3-9 perfect to go to the beach either before or after and we get 2 days off in the week to do whatever we want. But the time is flying by here so fast its crazy to think we have already been here for a month and are going home back in May. Our manager Adam says he's going to try and talk all of us into extending our internships through summer cause we are just that good haha but really it is tempting...I'll have to think about it and get back to yall. :) Speaking of our managers, which sounds so formal cause they are too cool and fun to be thought of as bosses but they still are great at their job, they are a newlyweds and are so awesome. They are like our older bro and sis so we have a good time with them we hang out with them all the time after work and its a great fun, couldn't have asked for anyone better! This is there first time managing a store and they came down only a week and half before we did, but Adam has served 2 internships for Del Sol already and you never would guess that Bonnie has never been through training or an internship because she is so amazing at the job. I'll talk about them more in detail when I do the introductions to the Del Sol/ Key West crew :) Thats the Del Sol company and Key West store in a nutshell though, hopefully its understandable and not too complicated

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