Working retail can be very challenging, especially during the holidays when people forget that they are not the only ones shopping in the store. After working two holiday seasons at a retail store, I miss babysitting more and more every day. Retail might stress me out more than college itself sometimes but sometimes it has its perks, like the people and friends I have made that I will for sure keep for a long time.
Patience: the biggest tool of them all. No patience, no retail job that is for sure.
Parenting skills: sometimes we become the parents to the costumers’ children giving them stickers, or trying to distract them as their parents make their purchases.
I don’t know everything: truth be told I walk from the break room to the front of the store without looking. I don’t know where everything is and definitely don’t know the price of every little product.
Closing shifts are okay: they can be extremely annoying when that one costumer walks in a minute before the store closes and tries to buy everything. Or they can be very relaxing when no one is in the store.
Coupons: the worst/ best idea known to man kind. Also the reason most costumers get angry at the cashier.
Days off: as a full-time student and part time worker my day off is only on Sunday. And I have learned to cherish that day and my bed like no other.
Returns: the worst kind of returns are the the ones that try to return an item they have bought over six months ago and try to return it because "it stopped working" or "it broke".
Price change: always yelling at the cashier because the price on the shelf does not match the price on the computer. But guess what, they were looking at the wrong label.
Break-room: trust me, that is where every worker in the store let their frustrations from that day out. So if you are one of those costumer that got on our nerves, we are talking about you.
