Sport chek Spiffs
Mar 24th, 2011 by joannayu
As mentioned in a previous post, I am currently a sales associate at Sport Chek and after listening to Tamar in class today, I found many similarities between what I learned in class and what I experienced at Sport Chek. For example, our store does offer spiffs for employees and they do motivate employees to work hard to sell certain items. As for me, I am currently attempting to sell Rebok’s new line extension featuring their newest Zigtech technology. Basically for any clothing apparel like t-shirts, they used grinded minerals from the ground to mix with the polyester fibres which is then weaved into t-shirts, jackets, shorts etc. With the minerals embedded within the apparel, the user should gain 7% more oxygen when they are exercising. So basically with the Zigtech line, us as employees will receive one point for every one Zigtech article we sell to a customer. In the end of the contest, the amount of points we earned will determine the type of award we can get. For this contest we get…
$15 for itunes – 3 points
$50 for cinema theatres – 5 points
$100 for Best Buy – 10 points
$250 for Visa – 20 points
As you can see, the more points we earn, the better the prizes which gives employees like me even more motivation to sell. However, it is unfortunate that at my store, there are only about 10 zigtech apparel to sell and with such a low variety, it makes it more difficult. However, spiffs do work as I usually recommend the Zigtech items to customer first in hopes of selling more to earn more points.
