Co-working is a rapidly expanding industry and it's not just changing workspaces, it's changing adjacent industries, including retail. In October 2017, 8-year-old co-working company WeWork made a deal ...
Working an unreliable retail job is typically synonymous with long hours, unreasonable pay and irritable customers who have absolutely zero room for upward movement unless the boss suddenly croaks or ...
Not many people like working in retail to begin with, but according to an article in Vice written by Sharine Taylor, being a Black woman in retail is doubly hard. “For Black women, working retail is ...
The retail and hospitality industry make up over 20 percentof the workforce in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These jobs, often seen as low-skill or temporary, require training ...
I started working in retail as a teen; my job made me hate the holiday season. Hearing the same music on repeat from as early as September and working on Black Friday were awful. Now that I no longer ...
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J.C. Penney, American Apparel, Radio Shack, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Limited. All closing stores in 2017. This is creative destruction, led by the growth of e-commerce giants like Amazon. It’s the ...
Retail workers put up with long hours, pushy customers and crowded stores during the holiday season. For many people, working in retail is a rite of passage — often the first job teens work during ...
If you have ever worked at one job for a long time, it can be bittersweet to leave if you have grown attached to your coworkers. Imagine your last day of work at a job you’re happy to leave. Would you ...
Some customers can be unabashed thieves of holiday joy. There are few things that promote grotesque pain and suffering more than working a retail gig from November to January, and for those who do ...
She was working on a make-up counter and the special offer was straightforward: buy certain items, get a free lipstick. But one customer completely lost it when the exact shade she wanted wasn’t in ...
A number of women working in retail say they are being forced to choose between keeping their jobs and making sure their children can keep up with remote learning. By Sapna Maheshwari and Michael ...