Retail job failures...

Image of Soho, New York , home of the retail stores: http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4687131/sohonewyork-main_Full.jpg

This is not exactly the best image you can get out of Soho, but definitely a very crowded and shopping kind of setting.

Check this out- Most teenagers/youths that have jobs are probably retail jobs. The reasons are simple, it does not require much of any experience at all, fairly easy to get and most of all, the discounts!

In this article (source) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=anP.K55X8d_s&refer=home, Bob Willis talks about how retail sales are also dropping while jobs are dissappearing.

In the first sentence of this post, you're only really seeing the bright side of retail jobs, but honestly, it's pretty horrifying. Some youths take on a job such as retail to make a little extra money to help out the family and have some sort of cash to get by here and there, maybe go shopping once in a while. However, that's not the case for most teens who find a retail job or any job to make money and spend it all right after receiving their paychecks. It's the truth, the fashion market is dominated by youth's nowadays because it's specifically aiming at them and successfully pulling them in. By the way, like I said earlier, once of the most things youths' look for in a retail job is their discounts, that way the could shop more for less or similar price than regular.

Now let me get to the negative part. Life at a retail job really offers nothing. I mean where is it getting you in the future, what kind of things/experience is it really teaching you, nothing really. It may be a temporary job, but others like myself find a more "educational" job like interning at a life insurance company as an IT. Well, it may sound boring but you are learning and obtaining a lot more than what your getting at a retail store even if they pay more. The most important thing is what you're getting out of it, picking up new skills and experiences as well as preparing your life for Corporate America. Even a job at the library would have a better and more knowledgable gain.

That was only one bad thing about having a job at a retail store. Here comes the part that we are all noticing lately and the point that the article above is really trying to get at. "The retail sales figures indicated incentives and promotions by car dealers and clothing stores such as Gap Inc. failed to draw customers hurt by a lack of credit and the highest jobless rate in 25 years." That's just really really bad, unemployment is rising which mean families can be hitting the streets. People who were once making six to seven figures such as those at Wall Street are desperate to even find a retail job. When the recession hit us, retail have been dropping pretty rapidly. However, I still find youth's like myself shopping even when income isn't so great and could be put to a better use. That's just how it is, fashion is a magnet pulling you back every time and all the time even when situations are bad. It is simply an addiction that many youths can not rid. Anyways, I wanted to share a little situation that someone I know had. He was working at A/X aka Armani Exchange in Soho making around 800 a week last summer and now he's gone. He didn't get laid off, but in my eyes, it was worse. His schedule became more and more off while hours became less and less. It became so bad that he ended up on a one day a week schedule not knowing which day and can be any time, and may even have gotten like only a few hours that day. Being on a on-call job while not even knowing how many hours your getting really sucks. He decided to quit because it was getting to hectic and stressful to deal with especially when your seeing checks like 19-30 dollars. I mean really, what can you do with that, I would literally rip it up and throw it back at them.

Anyways, that's how retail jobs are, they want you they don't want you. To me, your like their toy, if they like you, they'll keep you, but things are never going to be the same all the time. Retail jobs are not stable, not even if you're the manager!

This image is an example of a retail store that is actually still doing fairly well in sales, I mean look at that line. As well as growing in sales, they are also growing in size as they spread across the world. http://triplenetmarcus.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/bape_store_taipei-10.jpg Btw, items in this retail store goes up 500 dollars a pop for just a sweater/hoodie. Notice all the youths....