retail sales associate

retail assistant manager

sales associate

store manager

assistant manager

The Athletes Foot

A typical day at work is talking and assisting my customers especially the ones that followed me as a part timer. I learn to assist the needs to what my customers like and what they want. I learned how to multitask to help more than one, two are three customers at a time. As management I learned how to get my team in order so we can work together and run the store accordingly. I enjoyed all my co-workers by me being older, they all look to me for advice. My co-workers was like my second family. The hardest part would be when when I worked between eleven to twelve hours and we may not get customers in for maybe hours at a time, so time was very slow. The most enjoyable part of the job would be holiday time and money was in circulation. Then the store was busy and I had a chance to work with all my co-workers.

A typical day at work begins with me opening the store, and start proceeding with my daily routines. Which is turning on the power within the store, preparing the cash register for day, and also checking the daily deposits. Starting from a part time employee to a shift supervisor/key holder I learned that you have to adapt to your work environment. Meaning coming in on short notice, and working around your co workers schedules. Emergencies pop up and being that I am in a managerial position I had to learn that I needed to put my priorities in order. The hardest part of working is learning that every customer isn't a happy customer, but the most enjoyable part is trying to change their perspective with excellent customer service!

While employed at the Athlete’s Foot I was required to receive and check shoes in into our system. I also had to make sure each shoe I checked in had a label on them that has to be scanned when selling them to a customer. Once the shoes that came in shipment for that day were checked in and received labels they were to be put up into the stock room where ever that section of shoes were located whether it was men, women or kids. When working on the floor I assisted customers with finding shoes by measuring their feet to see what size they wore first, then letting them know what section they were in. If a customer came in and wasn’t looking for a specific shoe, I would help them find a shoe that looked nice and felt comfortable to them. Working at the Athlete’s Foot a lot of my customers were children that I would help find shoes, whether it was for school or jut leisure.

The job I had at the Athletes Foot was a very trying experience, moving heavy boxes from one end of the store to the other was a true challenge coupled with having to climb ladders and fulfilling orders, helped me to become more organized and focused. 

Being an athlete trainer in high school for football, basketball, track, cross country and, baseball really helped me to better understand the needs and wants of the everyday person to the hardened athlete.

The staff and management were a lively yet young group that I thoroughly enjoyed and loved working with each and every single day. Even though the chain and location from a public stand point does not exist anymore. I had a fun time here and do miss the people that touched my life.

By far one of the most relaxed retail positions I've ever held which has positive and negative connotations. Calm work environment and a solid team of sales associates makes for an easy day while the lack of structure and minimal assistance from upper management makes it a very unpredictable and unstructured work place. What is okay and approved one day could very well change the next as well as lack of regulation store to store can cause issues between locations. ZERO standard operating procedure in writing as many judgement calls are made on the fly and based on circumstances. Would not recommend as a career but rather a resume building opportunity.

Asst Manager. Managed daily operations including scheduling, payroll and inventory of supplies. Managed shoe store and supervised employees, planned and prepared work schedules assingning employees to specific task. Formulated pricing policies an on mhandise according to requirements for profitability of store operations. Coordinated sales promotion activities.Supervised employees engaged in sales work, taking of inventories, reconciling cash with sales receipts, keeping operating records and preparing daily record of transactions.

Arrive at the store, do a walk thru making sure everything was in order the way I liked. Count down the registers and safe, make change order if need be. Print off reports and markdowns for the day. As my crew came in tell them the goals and what I expected for the day. I would work on the schedule and go over payroll. Best of the job was having one of the staff going against me to see if the could out hustle me and make more sales. The hardest part of the job is always working and not knowing when to stop at times.

A typical workday at The Athlete's Foot is busy but not to hectic. At The Athletes Foot I definitely learned to have a lot more patience and how to better my customer service. In store management is great. They scheduled my hours around my daily lifestyle so there wasn't much I had to change when I started working here. The hardest part of my job is probably not having a beak other than that my job is very easygoing . The most enjoyable part of my job is checking the store stats at the end of the day and seeing we was in first place for our franchise for the day.

At this job some of my responsibilities were preparing the store for customers. Make schedules for the employees. Help with training, and pick out stock for upcoming seasons. Every day I met new people with interesting stories to tell. This job was full of competition due to the owner giving wonderful bonuses such as, extra money on the check, or free multiple pair of sneakers depending on how much was sold. The team all worked together as one to get the job done. Management was a young upbeat crew that made working very interesting

Started as a assistance manager and found out after I was hired that the store was in big trouble. Sales were down and the store manager was let go for it leaving me with big shoes to fill. I was promoted to store manager and got the store out of the red. Hiring dependable people it helped me get the shoe store to third top seller of the district. With that I left to start a new job that was the hardest thing was to leave a good group.

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