As many stores and malls are closing, then I want to remind people that Department Stores are good fun jobs. I worked at the Broadway Department Store in Pasadena, California, and we had a lot of fun. Our whole team was starving artists, we had models, and actors, and musicians, etc. The Boss was a lady from Lebanon, and she wanted to own the store someday. She used to bring donuts for breakfast, and then she would buy pizza for dinner, she used to feed us. On the night shift we would bring in the stuff on the loading dock and then we would take it out of the boxes, and we would price the goods, and then we would take the goods to the appropriate department and set up the displays, etc. And we would play Rock and Roll over the sound system of the store while we worked. And we sold great stuff, we had all of the best stuff. We had fun, and it can be fun to work at department stores and at malls.
I hope that people will start opening the Broadway Department Stores back up, etc. And we need to save Macy's.
Of note, the Universal City Walk is a huge success, and every year they do better and better, the department stores can bring that same joy to their jobs and they can make shopping fun for people. People used to love to shop, just to go look at the goods, people love real brick and mortar stores.
And people love to try on the clothes before they buy them, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.
