An inside look into the world of retail

MELISSA STEVEN STAFF WRITER MS727@CABRINI EDU

Retail in my opinion is one of the hardest jobs a person could have. I have been working in retail stores for the past four years and all I can say is God bless the people who actually enjoy it and can take the mental abuse from the worst customers.

I have worked at two major retail stores in my working career, one at a clothing store and another at a shoe store, both on the Main Line.

The Main Line is filled with wealthy people who have too much money and too much free time on their hands in my opinion. I will not name the stores I have worked at, but I wanted to offer some inside information on what it like working at an aver- age retail clothing and shoe store.

Most customers see the employee as their slave almost. They treat you like you are below them and that your only goal should be to please them. Now as an employee it is my job to assist a customer in any of their needs, but it not the customer’s right to ever be rude. This happens a lot because people on the Main Line have money and I guess they feel like they are better than everyone else.

Most employees spend their time making the store look nice and presentable. We spend long hours at night rearranging the store only to please the customer.

When you walk into a store and see one of us folding and rearranging a table to make it look nice for you, do not walk up to it in front of our faces and mess the display up for us to fix again.

Try to put back the clothing the