After working a week at a local shoe store...
Posted: June 15, 2004, 4:13 pm
...I have the following things to say.
1: If the box comes with a lid, PUT IT BACK ON before putting it back on the shelf.
2: Under no circumstances do baby clothes (the hell?) from another department go in the shelf for women's shoes.
3: If, for whatever reason, you don't like the shoe you picked out, try to - at least - return it to the same section it came from. A I
Comfort Mellisa White does not go into the same spot as a a Wolverine 6 1/2 Inc Steel Toe Brown. Common sense here people.
4: A size M is a medium width. A size "E" anything or a size "W" anything is a wide. Don't blame us if Nike doesn't send us Wides, they suck about things like that.
5: I have to climb a 11ft ladder with no railing to get shoes off of the top shelf in the stockroom, so please, if you don't think you're going to buy that type of shoe, don't ask me if we have one in a larger size in the back. It's just mean.
6: Don't worry about the interior paper wraps inside the shoes that seperate them from touching each other. It's a waste of tree - tear it up all you like, but try to at least make sure the lid closes afterwards.
7: The anti-theft inkpacks are more of a pain for ME than YOU. Why? Because they are connected with an inch and a half long metal spike that could be used by the Viet Cong to torture pow's. They hurt. OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS. And they have to be applied to every athletic shoe out front THEN the thousand or so in the back. If you can't put your foot in the shoe because of it, use the other foot - we only tag left shoes.
8: If you know, or think you know the person responsible for randomly stealing right sides in a pair of shoes, let us know. We've got money on it being a one legged kleptomaniac.
9: I stock shoes. I don't price them. It's not my fault that a shoddy New Balance doesn't feel as good as your old pair of Nikes that you bought three years ago for half of what a new pair would cost today.
Thanks! :0
1: If the box comes with a lid, PUT IT BACK ON before putting it back on the shelf.
2: Under no circumstances do baby clothes (the hell?) from another department go in the shelf for women's shoes.
3: If, for whatever reason, you don't like the shoe you picked out, try to - at least - return it to the same section it came from. A I
Comfort Mellisa White does not go into the same spot as a a Wolverine 6 1/2 Inc Steel Toe Brown. Common sense here people.4: A size M is a medium width. A size "E" anything or a size "W" anything is a wide. Don't blame us if Nike doesn't send us Wides, they suck about things like that.
5: I have to climb a 11ft ladder with no railing to get shoes off of the top shelf in the stockroom, so please, if you don't think you're going to buy that type of shoe, don't ask me if we have one in a larger size in the back. It's just mean.
6: Don't worry about the interior paper wraps inside the shoes that seperate them from touching each other. It's a waste of tree - tear it up all you like, but try to at least make sure the lid closes afterwards.
7: The anti-theft inkpacks are more of a pain for ME than YOU. Why? Because they are connected with an inch and a half long metal spike that could be used by the Viet Cong to torture pow's. They hurt. OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS. And they have to be applied to every athletic shoe out front THEN the thousand or so in the back. If you can't put your foot in the shoe because of it, use the other foot - we only tag left shoes.
8: If you know, or think you know the person responsible for randomly stealing right sides in a pair of shoes, let us know. We've got money on it being a one legged kleptomaniac.
9: I stock shoes. I don't price them. It's not my fault that a shoddy New Balance doesn't feel as good as your old pair of Nikes that you bought three years ago for half of what a new pair would cost today.
Thanks! :0
I worked retail in high school and my early 20s, I think it's something everyone should experience at least once. I know I'm a better customer for having been on that side of the cash register.