Well I finally made my way to the new store. I must admit I was extremely excited.
I took my fuschia ostrich birkin with me of course when I went. As I approached, the first thing I saw was the huge orange birkin in the window. It was gorgeous! When I went in I was even more pleased at the selection. They had quite a few birkins on display and a few more in back. The biggest attention getter of course was the orange ostrich birkin. There were numerous people in the store and it appears that most of the were really new to Hermes itself. So quite a few were shocked at the prices.
At any rate, the first SA I came to was a male. He was absolutely wonderful...very helpful and quite willing to let me look at anything I wanted to see. So far so good.
Then I went over to the scarves. And as was the case with my trip to the Madison Ave store, I had a bit of an unpleasant experience with the SA's in the scarf section(what is it about scarves that makes these SA's so unwilling to help people???). Anyway, the SA wasn't helpful at all at first...until she came around the counter and saw my birkin which was at my side. Her entire demanor changed in a split second and suddenly she and the other scarf SA were as helpful as could be. They asked me a million questions about my birkin and were just in awe, asking if I wanted to look at the orange ostrich birkin and did I need accessories to go with my fuschia ostrich. One of them made a comment that the Charlotte store had far more inventory than the Atlanta store so they had a heads up on Atlanta in that respect. Throughout all of this I finally selected a lovely pocket square to go with the new birkin I will be receiving on Wednesday morning which will be vert fonce with gold hardware in fjord.
So that was my day. Overall I was impressed with the inventory in the store, but I suspect they are going to have a hard time selling their bags, especially the birkins. Believe it or not. This was the first time I have ever been in an Hermes where birkins were so plentiful with as many people milling about as there were in the store today.
I took my fuschia ostrich birkin with me of course when I went. As I approached, the first thing I saw was the huge orange birkin in the window. It was gorgeous! When I went in I was even more pleased at the selection. They had quite a few birkins on display and a few more in back. The biggest attention getter of course was the orange ostrich birkin. There were numerous people in the store and it appears that most of the were really new to Hermes itself. So quite a few were shocked at the prices.
At any rate, the first SA I came to was a male. He was absolutely wonderful...very helpful and quite willing to let me look at anything I wanted to see. So far so good.
Then I went over to the scarves. And as was the case with my trip to the Madison Ave store, I had a bit of an unpleasant experience with the SA's in the scarf section(what is it about scarves that makes these SA's so unwilling to help people???). Anyway, the SA wasn't helpful at all at first...until she came around the counter and saw my birkin which was at my side. Her entire demanor changed in a split second and suddenly she and the other scarf SA were as helpful as could be. They asked me a million questions about my birkin and were just in awe, asking if I wanted to look at the orange ostrich birkin and did I need accessories to go with my fuschia ostrich. One of them made a comment that the Charlotte store had far more inventory than the Atlanta store so they had a heads up on Atlanta in that respect. Throughout all of this I finally selected a lovely pocket square to go with the new birkin I will be receiving on Wednesday morning which will be vert fonce with gold hardware in fjord.
So that was my day. Overall I was impressed with the inventory in the store, but I suspect they are going to have a hard time selling their bags, especially the birkins. Believe it or not. This was the first time I have ever been in an Hermes where birkins were so plentiful with as many people milling about as there were in the store today.
Things were hectic with work and I usually just crashed when I got home instead of getting online. Plus, they severely limited our computer access at the school, so I couldn't log onto the forum in my spare minutes.