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The 30 Worst Things About Working in Retail

Posted on January 11, 2015January 13, 2015 by RetailGuy

The 30 Worst Things About Working in Retail.

This is the best list ever.  If you don’t identify with at least 20 of these, you never worked in retail.

 

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