10 Biggest Myths About Retail Workers

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13. Mothers who are looking for something to do outside the house

volunteer at their children's school or at their church or something.

The thing with retail jobs is that many high school & college students have used them for decades for spending $$ (I sure did and that was 25 years ago) ... but today the breakdown is likely a little more complicated. Unemployment is higher so I suspect you find folks who take them for short-term $$$, or keep at them after college until they find something in their major, or go to them in their 60s because they are retired but find that it's nice to add a little extra income to help with prescription costs etc.

We used to have so many more manufacturing jobs in this country that had the potential to pay better (especially with unions negotiating wages) but those jobs have moved overseas. People have to do something. Walmart is getting rich off of that in multiple ways ...