Merchandising

In the industry I am in, you are as good as the "money" that you bring in. You are constantly measured against your "budget". Your existence {or soon to be non-existence) is determined by your "volume".

I have - as of 12.21hrs today - managed to dent Uncle Sam's dollar reserve by $1,595,845.34 . That's a staggering ... {drum roll here please}

70million, twohundredseveteenthousand,onehundredfourteen Philippine Peso!
I cannot even imagine how many paper bills that is! I get giddy figuring out how I would be spending all that moo-lah. {Not that I get to see even a shadow of a single dollar from this million dollar and a half. Nuh-ah.}

Anyways, a huge chunk of this million dollar pie is from my Neiman buyer who proposed her love for me {yep, that screenshot of my inbox below}. A crust comes from the Metropolitan Museum of Arts New York and a little bit of filling from my lovable Japanese stores.

Not yet included in this yummy dessert is Polo Ralph Lauren. This is the one that is closest to my heart. YES. I am close to getting a heart attack...

But I digress. rewind. rewind. rewind.

So, we are measured against the number of chinks of the cash register. Dinudugo ang ilong, nalalagas ang buhok, at natutuyo ang matris namin directing product developments and overseeing production runs.

Every merchant has a horror story of a development gone wrong, a production that went way and beyond cancel date, concalls that wouldn't have required speaker phones {dahil nagsisigawan na silang lahat across the miles!}.

This is not easy work.

This is not for the faint hearted or the hard headed.

Most of the time, we bend way too much we are in danger of getting leptospirosis.. hehe..i mean, scoliosis. All in the commitment to represent one interest and only one interest - that of our buyer {mamahalin ako ni ChipConnor ng todo todo nito}.

While every dropped development is heart breaking, every PO that comes in is a merchant's success story. More than the ka-ching ka-ching of the golden cash register, every order is a testament to a merchant's exemplary work and dedication to see a project thru... inspite of and despite of everything that happened in between.