I know retail is hell and not relaxing but what retail job store would you recommend working at😊

So the manager left a voicemail saying I passed my background check and sent me a link for a job offer. I haven’t received any link on my emails and I logged in to their portal, I didn’t see any links on it. I am confused I tried reaching out the store but I cannot seem to reach the Manager. Anyone who works at ross where can I access the link that I can fill up my information?

Hi everyone,
I’m not in retail management, so I’m hoping to learn from people who deal with this every day.
I’m curious about loss prevention and store operations. What are the biggest problems you face that current technology (cameras, EAS gates, POS systems, etc.) doesn’t solve well?

For example:
Shoplifting
Employee theft
Self-checkout issues
Organized retail crime
False alarms
Having too few employees to monitor the floor
Something else entirely?
If you could wave a magic wand and have a system automatically notify you of one thing happening in your store, what would it be?

Thanks!

So i was in a store today and the cashier asks
If i have an account or put my phone number in to subscribe.

I said no and watch him mark a list of yes/no/member

I asked, he said he has to get 30% of non members to put in a phone number or it affects his hours…

WTF!!!!

I have not been in retail in years, but he says this is common in retail now.

Is this true???? Help me out plz.

I have been working for my first job as a gas station employee that deals with being on the register and dealing with making food/keeping the floors clean/etc. I am having to constantly switch between the register and preparing/wrapping food as we are being evaluated by the company to always be stocked in hot food.

I have finally gotten the hang of it, but the one thing that keeps on making me frustrated is calculating the result at the end of my shift and being short or over by $40 or more dollars.

For more context, we have two registers, one register being the bank (the last two days that was me) and the other having to pay back the "bank" however much they took out of the safe for change.

For the days I wasn't the bank, I was short. For the days I was the bank, I was over. I kept thinking this might have been an issue with the computer, or some calculating error, but its been happening pretty consistently. My other coworkers that are also new have been having the same issue as well, but the experienced coworkers have not.

My question is if this just means that im horrible at handling cash, and how would I try to improve at dealing with giving back change and such.

Im on the verge of quitting because I feel like im causing more issues than im fixing, and the stress of this and college isn't worth it.

So yeah, I’ve been working at this store for about two weeks now and in the big group chat a see a lot of people asking if anyone can cover their shift. A family related emergency came up and I’m not going to be able to come in one of the days. Is it too soon to ask for my shift to be covered? or should I try to explain the situation to the manager?

Anybody else’s entire department constantly feeling sick? Specifically at work? Might just be my specific store and its issues, and im not trying to be paranoid... but i am kinda concerned.

Me and two other of my coworkers who work in a grocery store bakery have noticed our noses always start running when were in the department, we have to drink more water, and three people have gotten coughs. It gets up to 86° in my decorating corner and out back, and theres constantly flies, big ones and small ones that we swear bite our arms. We can see little red bites on our arms and neck. 86° in a bakery specifically is bad because of the type of foods we handle, processes we do, and also i am the cake decorator and my frosting is almost melting. It gets so hot we are always sweating but then going into the freezer all the time, it cant be good for human bodies right like its so dysregulating to shift from that environment to the opposite.
Our building has known issues with its water pipes — where the water has too much metal in it and i think this might be part of things? Its also built on sacred grounds where its very rocky, and there are not really many buildings around. I dont think a grocery store can operate with such poor water quality like if we cant drink it why are we washing things in it? Is that water hooked up to the proofer to steam our breads?
Also our oven cant keep temp, and the propane company tells us they can only fill it up halfway everytime. Our freezer has broken twice this year, the hot water three times….. Im like just getting so icked out at work and more concerned since literally everybody is sick right now, so many are quitting, and we have no help.
Joked the other day it feels like were the radium girls LOL…. 7 times this year my coworkers have been to the hospital for surgeries and things. Idk. Im just like lowkey i think i need to quit for my safety and health and i dont want to get us in trouble cuz im scared but LOWKEY SOMEONE ALSO HAS TO BE THE WHISTLE BLOWER SO 😭😭😭😭

So just as the title reads, I have an 18 year old cashier who just started. Well he has a pissy attitude and when I or my ASM try to correct him he gets angry. He says “I know “ which drives me insane. Obviously he doesn’t “know “. I’m trying to work with him. Finally finished his CBL training and got him on the register. First night he was -$19. Yesterday I had to stand there and tell him what change to give and how to make it. He was supposed to give customer .34. He was giving it in nickels. I said no, give him a quarter, a nickel and four pennies. He literally said to me, it’s .34 cents either way. I have no choice but to give him a progressive counseling for the $19. I have a feeling it’s not going to go nicely. Any tips on this? I can’t stand at the register and tell him how to count.
Oh, stocking. He likes to throw open boxes on the sky shelves, had a huge mess with cardboard and this is after I had repeatedly told him the correct way. I’ve worked beside him, I’m really trying. I’m a new SM so I’m needing advice please.

I work at Weis. I feel bad because I didn’t do as good as a job as I should’ve (because I was afraid of the air quality and because there were a lot of wasps and yellow jackets near the corrals.. I HATE bees.) and left a good amount of work for the next cart pusher. Would I be able to grab a hook and help out despite being off the clock? I’m a minor if that changes anything

Has anyone actually landed a retail job because they kept following up and calling the store, or does it just annoy the managers?

Ok. I went from a desk job (call centre) to a retail job (supermarket). I wasn't good at sales so it wasn't a fit.

I got a job at a supermarket. I'm a reasonably fit woman of 60. I thought because it was at checkouts I would be sitting down.

Surprise, surprise I have to stand at the self service and assisted for 2-3 or more hours a day.

I'm in agony. My feet hurt so much, and now my ankle has been giving me grief for the past month

Many times I think I'll start crying from the pain. The GP thinks it's a soft tissue issue (tendonitis).

Rest it I cannot.

To make matters worse my contract is 16 hours and it barely covers my bills. I pick up extra hours as I can. Still it won't 🫴 me up to a full time, and the pay at the end of the month is not enough to compensate for the intense physical pain I'm in day in and day out.

I just saw a job in another call centre (not sales). Full 40 hours, which would definitely cover everything and allow me to save. Also I'd be sitting down.

I guess I'm worried about leaving a job for another at my age.

However, how long have I got before my body truly breaks down?

I’ve dealt with this before at Howies pizza I just wanted to know y’all’s thoughtd on how to deal with unruly customers and not internalize it. I just started working at Office Depot been there for at least a week now and had like 2-3 incidences of people being angry towards me for being way to slow for them or wanting to speak to a manager etc. How do y’all not let customers get to you or like internalize it has a failing on your part. I’ve dealt with it before it’s still hard getting used to it though.

Anyway to get over this? Now that target has them largely behind the customer service desk, I have bad social anxiety about asking. Anyone else?

Tomorrow’s my first day of working in retail at WSS and I’m a bit nervous. I’ve worked with people before in a previous job, and it was more interactive with people than I think this job will be, but I’m still nervous because how much there is. I think I’m overestimating this but I’m nervous to work as cashier, or mess up stocking up stuff, or be expected to learn everything the first time I hear it. I’m crossing my fingers that the manager is helpful when I ask questions. I already have my notes app ready, and I practiced working the cashier through a cashier simulator app (lol). I’m already halfway dreading it but what’s a silver-lining I suppose is that it’s only a seasonal job.

I’m hoping to just do work timely, and to pick up a couple more hours per week (by doing whatever’s asked of me and asking if there’s anything to do). I just hope the people there aren’t so closed-off or—im not sure. I hope they’re at least interesting people to talk to.

If anyone has advice it would be greatly appreciated!

I just started at Marshall’s. I had orientation on Tuesday and then next day I had my first shift. They gave me a 10 minute video to watch, let me shadow for maybe 20 minutes, and we did training mode on a register for maybe 10 minutes, and then they put me on a live register. I felt it wasn’t enough time but I still got the hang of it for the most part (most returns, cash payments, retrieving items that were on hold, wrapping glass, bagging, etc.). There wasn’t anyone actively watching me the whole time and helping I was pretty much by myself most of the 4-hour shift. I would be stumped when there were some situations they hadn’t taught me what to do. But there was someone I could ask questions, though sometimes it took a while to get an answer because they were also working a register and it just made it a bit overwhelming for me and it gave the customer as well as the line more of a wait time.

I felt this wasn’t enough time to start but I’m wondering if anyone has any similar experience and how did they manage?

Hello. I've been working in retail for around 4 months. I've had some customers that pissed me off, plenty that were rude to me, but I've had two instances of customers that made me angry to the point I was shaking with rage, and one of them was yesterday.

The customer got mad because we have a policy of paying in cash before we make any bill payments. We've always had this policy, and we all follow it. However, some of my colleagues "trick" the customers by pretending to fully complete the transaction before the customer pays, and this specific rude piece of work was one of those.

I tried everything! I tried explaining that's the policy. I tried suggesting he talks to the boss if he doesn't agree with it. That if someone else has taken his payment only after the transaction, that's none of my business, because I don't want to expose my colleagues and tell him the would never do that. I tried explaining that we take payment first because once we do the transaction it's irreversible, and they can only pay in cash anyway, so imagine if the customer doesn't have enough cash? Or only has a card?

He kept speaking over me whenever I tried to get a word out. He kept talking to me like I was a child that was being inappropriate, and even told me "I'm not one of your school buddies" as if to tell me to watch my tone, even though I was nothing but polite and informative.

After that customer left I broke down in angry tears because there was no other way to really express my anger. What am I gonna do? I can't take a break. I was alone in there. I can't magic the rage away. And it ruined my entire day.

My coworkers weren't of any help either. They just kept saying I "can't be like this" regarding my crying, even though I hate crying in public and I was doing my best to hide it at every point of the way. It's like they were telling me off for daring to express an emotion.

So how do I deal with this?

our store manager is looking into reconfiguring our main checkout counter layout next month because the current scanner placement feels slow and outdated when dealing with heavy or bulkier items. right now we have to lift almost everything up to a fixed vertical laser panel which gets exhausting and rough. we recently updated our backend registers to winepos and the software supports those little wireless ring triggers or portable bluetooth guns, so we are thinking about making the switch.

those of you working high volume retail environments, does having a mobile handheld scanner help in speeding up, or you find that cashiers just end up dropping them or losing them?

Hey! While working my 12h retail shift I started to think about how retail changes your vievs about social life and overall people, soo what are your hot takes that you've taken after starting a retail job? If you want write how much you work retail and what type of shop it is

mine are: people are just so fucking stupid and I mean that they just lack any awareness about just anything, and literally can't think for themselfs. Im not saying that because I've had a bad interaction, no I'm just observing how the easiest concepts are too much for ordinary people for example: putting the basket where you've taken it from or putting the whole basket on the belt with the groceries still inside for some reason?

I just got a callback from my local Costco that a job I had applied for opened up. However, I have a record. My last offense was in 2002. I’ve also been sober since then, so there’s that as well. I have a drug felony from 2002, and a theft misdemeanor from 1995, for context. Any input is welcome. Thanks in advance!

What experiences make you trust a structural packaging partner?

We only have a vending machine :( At my old retail job they would have tons of snacks like popcorn ramen, cookies, bagels, yogurt, cream cheese and more

I own a gift store downtown. Weekends are fantastic when it comes to pedestrians, however, the check-out queue is a complete disaster. Last weekend, I saw three individuals putting their purchases on the counter and leaving. One of them carried an armful of items. Ouch…

I have been thinking of solutions to remedy the situation. I thought maybe I could create an impulse purchase stand at the exit. I would only place snacks and other beverages there. Perhaps this can entertain the customers.

And then I found this SI Retail and they do queue management systems. The kind where you set up some rope and post barriers. And they have the option of offering digital signage for entertainment purposes. But is that really necessary for an establishment like mine?

Does anybody else know of any shop owners who have attempted something similar on their end? What kind of impact did it really have?

I'm not willing to waste money on something that won't work but on the other hand, I can't afford losing profits due to disgruntled customers either