Have YOU ever worked retail?

Tell you what. Get a corporate DM on your boss's ass telling him that he has
to cut employees hours because of corporate budget cuts and maintain
customer service. This means an entire store with only 5 people on staff,
one of them a manager, one of them an operations officer three of them
minimum wage sales associates.

The three sales associates have to unload 6-11 pallets of stock every other
day, and put it up during the course if an 8 hour, or likely less, shift
because part timers do not get benefits.

Then give those 3 sales associates time to answer the phones, help
customers, tidy the shelves and displays, check to be sure there are no
empty spaces on the shelves and refill them and run the cash registers.

Then, there are the customers who let their children pull the price labels
off of the store shelves as entertainment while the parents are oblivious to
their child's actions. Prices that change daily and a list of several dozen
items that must be relabeled.. by those same three employees.

Try it sometime.
Retail is allot harder than it looks from the customer's side of the
counter. If you want to blame someone, blame the sorporation, not the
employees. The company is to blame 80% of the time.

Kate
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AMEN!!!!!

I am a manager of a convenience store. I am only allowed to have 1 or 2
employees on the clock per shift. The things that "customers" do is
outrageous!! I could tell you horror stories. Retail is a LOT harder than
it looks. My company starts all clerks out at min. wage, no matter how much
experience they have. And the only give me 2 days to train these employees.
That's not nearly long enough. They have installed cameras recently to help
cut down on employee theft. Employee theft counts for 80% of store losses.
That includes unintentional employee mistakes as well.

D.S.