From shelf stacking in supermarkets to senior management roles with high-end jewellers, s1jobs has retail covered.
It’s the number one place to find your entry-level role and to spot the jobs that will help you work your way up the career ladder.
Want to find a part-time job or a full-on senior position? Then check out the vacancies on offer because there’s bound to be one that fits your skills.
So what do you need to make the most of these opportunities?
Well great people skills for a start. What differentiates the shop from the screen is the fact that online the personal touch is mostly missing – and when it comes to everything from wedding dresses to sweets and sofas, the simple truth is pretty pictures, however tempting, often aren’t enough.
Most customers like to try before they buy.
But don’t think anything about your role will be stuck in the past. Shops are changing fast, too. They’re becoming integrated with the internet, temples to technology and full of the latest gadgets and gizmos.
Look out for smart carts that will cut the queues at checkouts. And magic mirrors in the changing rooms that will allow customers to try on fashions without stepping out of their own clothes – and share the results on social media to get the opinions of their friends.
Meanwhile e-receipts not only capture customer contact details but reduce the amount of paper going to waste.
Shops are also sharing space, buddying up with other retailers to make for more dynamic environments.
It’s about creating real-time retail communities, places where people want to hang out and sip a skinny latte.
Now it even appears that reports on the death of the corner shop are premature. By reimagining themselves as drop-off and collection points for on-line retailers, stocking locally-grown fresh foods and installing izzy-whizzy Italian coffee machines, they’re beginning to regain ground lost by the drop in newspaper and cigarette sales.
In the always-on world we now live in, with its great global reach, it turns out that we still hanker after a touch of real world shopping.
You may be able to get anything you want online but no emoji will ever take the place of a friendly smile from a shop assistant.
The new age of old-style shopping has arrived.
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