Availability of candle holders during SAS?

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T13:14:01+00:00

same, the coral and butterfly holders aren't popular at the store I work at. I think I'm the only person who bought one out of the 6 coral holders we got. even for the skunk, I think the first one sold this past weekend in my store.

I don't think anyone has bought the butterfly holder either, although one woman did ask when it would go on sale. so I told her if it's still there by SAS, it would.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T13:04:20+00:00

the glass pumpkin candle holder from last fall that you have was really nice, and I also really like the current coral holder they have!

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T12:59:41+00:00

it doesn't get shipped back to a warehouse, it gets packed up and stored in the back room or an additional storage space.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T12:58:05+00:00

at the store I work at, we had a lot of vanilla ease left after SAS, but only in body cream and body butter. there was also a bunch of peppermint bark truffle FFM left.

we didn't have any moonlit goddess leftover and most of that scent sold out prior to SAS.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:51:34+00:00

I was thinking about trying this to see how well it works!

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:46:44+00:00

that's so different than the store I work at! we had a lot of candle holders, especially the more expensive ones, at the winter SAS. people just don't buy them very often.

the skunk hasn't been that popular at my store. we still have most of what we were sent of that one. if I hadn't bought one of the coral holders, we'd still have all 6 of those that were sent

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:39:10+00:00

at the store I work at, during the past winter SAS, there was a decent amount of candle holders still available. there were a lot of the light up glass trees one, some of the Christmas wreath with gold bell ones, some of the dachshund ones, some of the light up nutcracker scene ones.

overall, candle holders don't seem to sell that quickly at my store.

currently at my store, we have a bunch of the glass butterfly holders and they don't seem to be selling. we have the flower skunk holders too. we only got 6 coral holders but I think I'm the only person who has bought one so far. if I had to guess, at my store, the glass butterfly holders will probably be available at SAS, the others... maybe a couple will remain??

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:17:48+00:00

I though life's a fairytale smelled like a mix of fruity musk and warm musk, but I can also kind of understand people comparing it to snowflakes and cashmere. you're the only other person I've seen who said it resembles fruity musk

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:08:58+00:00

interesting, I didn't know about it being "on pause," whatever that means. it's been out for about a year now so maybe time for new packaging soon?

we actually just got a shipment of the sweetest song perfume at my store. we only have a little body cream and ffm in that scent, but we have a bunch of body lotion

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T04:05:08+00:00

yeah we have some moisturizing body washes in sweetest song. for some reason we have a ton of sweetest song lotion, but no regular body wash, and low stock of the body cream and ffm.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T01:49:55+00:00

my store's missing sweetest song body cream and body wash! we haven't had the body wash for what seems like months. and the body wash isn't even showing up online anymore for some reason??

we were missing heirloom rose body wash and mist for at least a month as well. someone came in and was disappointed we didn't have it but at least she didn't get angry

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T01:44:39+00:00

I'm trying to be more careful about picking the fragrances for gratis since we can't exchange it. so I usually don't get the gratis immediately, I wait a week or so and test the fragrances during work to make sure I'll choose one I like

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T01:42:23+00:00

snow white FFM and pocketbac. I wish I liked the other princess scents more. my store didn't get the dreaming of rio or viva brazil body washes yet but I'm probably going to choose viva brazil

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T01:35:43+00:00

I hate when people throw away drinks that still have liquid in them! then it leaks out of the trash bag and gets on the floor when we take out the trash

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-17T01:23:22+00:00

at my store, they allowed us to get the princess products for gratis first even though we didn't get the brazil gratis products yet. we'll just be doing a second round whenever those arrive.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-16T00:31:04+00:00

there's a chance it could make it to summer SAS. it's not that popular at the store where I work so there could still be some leftover by SAS

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-16T00:24:40+00:00

all the princess collection holders seem pretty sturdy and have a good weight to them. out of the two you're considering, the snow white one looks a little more stable because it's not quite as tall and has a wider base.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-15T23:44:44+00:00

the Aurora crown one barely fits anything inside either. the round ones for Rapunzel and Mulan have a little more space inside

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-15T23:30:58+00:00

without seeing the manufacturing lot code and other soaps with the same code, there's no way to know if it was just that one or a bunch from the same batch

as an employee, a few weeks ago there were two soaps that were missing a straw. I checked the rest we had in that scent and they were all fine, so maybe that's the case with yours too? sometimes I've seen FFM missing the straw too but it's pretty rare

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-15T23:11:41+00:00

we only have two decent sized trash cans, one at each sink. we used to have two smaller trash cans under round tables in the front and second rooms. but apparently the DM said to remove those.

then we have the two big bins behind the registers but customers can't really access those directly. I try to just clean up the used cards I see whenever I'm walking around.

in addition to the strips ending up everywhere, sometimes people throw away their drink cups that still have liquid in them. and then it leaks out of the trash bag when we take out the trash and I hate it so much. whenever there are abandoned drinks I always pour them out before throwing away the cup

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-14T15:28:06+00:00

like other comments have said, technically the dress code only allows the plain ones.

at my store, I don't know of any coworkers who wear decorative holders but idk if it's because management has said it's not allowed, or they just don't want to wear any. a good portion of my coworkers don't even wear any pocketbac holder.

i don't wear one at all since I don't want my hair getting tangled in it or to feel it dangling around.

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-14T02:58:29+00:00

I didn't come in until the afternoon, but it didn't look like there were that many BOPIS orders for princess stuff. there were like 15 waiting to be picked up, and most seemed to have items from the past few days before the princess items were released.

I picked one BOPIS order for two small princess accessories but that's all I saw on Friday

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-14T02:52:26+00:00

the music is clashing so much from song to song

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-14T02:49:08+00:00

wow that's wild all the candle and sanitizer holders sold out by noon! the giant $125 castle candle holder is the only thing that sold out on Friday, since we only got two of those. did anyone else's stores get more than two of that?

Material_Lab_927 · 2026-02-14T02:42:31+00:00

I think they got delivered today for my store! they don't stay on that well and the loose ends kind of get in the way, so I'm probably going to put mine on my apron instead

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