42 Quotes About Retail

  • Author Robert Sabbag
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    Most people don't know what they're blowing anyway -- they know what they've been buying. You offer them pure and they won't meet your price -- they say it's shit because it doesn't look like what they're used to. So you hit it with some borax and they pay your price. But that takes time. After you unload most of it at an honest price, then you can fuck around with what's left for the sucker trade.

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  • Author Ann Aguirre
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    His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

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  • Author George Troy
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    It’s always the first rule of customer service. Make eye contact, smile, say hello. To EVERYONE: your fellow employees, customers, everyone connected with the extended community.

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  • Author A.J. Reid
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    Goods were arranged in glass cabinets as if they were ancient Egyptian artefacts. I was a contaminant, a fly in the gourmet soup, a spanner in the golden machine that sparkled and hummed before my eyes."Reid, A. J. (2012-11-08). A Smaller Hell (Kindle Locations 319-321). . Kindle Edition.

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  • Author Andy Warhol
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    Being in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art

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  • Author Ted Rubin
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    RETAIL RELEVANCY is all about SIMPLICITY... you make her life easier, she will buy from you again, and again, and again.

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  • Author Matt Bellassai
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    Listen. Don't sexually harass Brenda and also, the guy who wants 15 percent off that kitchen mixer he found in the sale bin can go fuck himself because it was never in the sale bin and he knows it.

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  • Author Kayla Krantz
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    He tips his head to the side and grins. “That’s too bad. It’s lonely on this side of the store,” he says and glances at the register beside us.“It’s lonely over there too,” I say honestly, thinking of the lack of real connection between me and Camilla.Blaine’s eyes light with humor, and I smack a hand over my mouth as I realize I said that out loud. He leans closer to me and whispers, “We’ll both survive somehow.

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