Managing a Hawaiian shirt store in downtown Escondido
certainly has its’ perks. The highlight
of my day is interacting with our customers. Have you ever noticed that people
who wear Hawaiian clothing can be funny and out-going? I often get to hear the
good, bad and ugly highlights of their Hawaiian vacations & somehow the
topics always turned to souvenirs and hands down, the ABC stores over there has the largest selection of souvenirs and they are one of my favorite places to go for Hawaiian souvenirs.
When Charles and I took our first trip to Waikiki of course
I had a huge list of family & friends that I wanted to buy souvenirs for so
even though Hubs hates shopping he was in his opinion kindly being patient (not
really) and even walked into the first couple of stores with me. It was after we entered the third store that
he says to me “This stuff is the same stuff we saw at the last store, I going
to sit on the wall and look at the beach”~!
When you translate it to “man-speak” that meant he was going to go
looking at the bikini babes! “Good
Riddance” I replied.
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| Waikiki Beach has beautiful sidewalks |
One souvenir I saw a lot of people picking up was the Hula Dashboard Doll. So I spoke to the store manager and bought 8 of them at wholesale
and when I returned from vacation I put them in my store. About 2 weeks later I
had a couple run into the store in a panic because they had been to Hawaii and
forgot a souvenir for one of their
brothers.
It literally made their day to
get their hands on a Hula Dashboard Doll. So in addition to some beautiful
Hawaiian Shirts, Hawaiian Muumuu Dresses and Tropical Hawaiian dresses. I also now have a Tiki Hut whose
shelves are stocked with Hawaiian souvenirs for those who didn’t get their list
quite right. Top sellers for me are
mugs, hula dashboard dolls, candles, incense and any darn thing that has a turtle
on it! What types of souvenirs do you buy when you go to the islands?
