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A shopping cart filled with Christmas gifts and toys

The Tactics Companies Use To Get You To Spend More at Christmas

Tiffany Singh, University of Central Florida

Retailers utilize decorations, music and discount promotions to boost customers' Yuletide feelings while also getting them to buy plenty of gifts.…

December 16, 2021

5 Reasons Why Retail Experience Should Be Required on a Resume

Jackie Sizing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Working in customer service can mean angry customers and long hours on your feet, but it can also mean gaining skills that will benefit you for years to come.…

August 7, 2020

An image of an abandoned building / dead malls

Dead Malls and Abandoned Retail Spaces Are My New Obsession

Brendan Bell, Towson University

A few YouTubers are showing that there’s a lot to discover about desolate and empty buildings.…

January 30, 2020

What’s so Contentious About Emotional Labor?

Rickea Bell, Saint Peter’s University

The ever-expanding definition of the term has caused more of an uproar instead of opening a door for conversation.…

January 28, 2020

Why Shopping And Home-Owning Look Different to Millennials

Sierra Emilaire, Southern Adventist University

Generation X was married with children and mortgage payments in their twenties, but millennials aren’t in the financial, political or social position to do so.…

August 31, 2017

Why College Students Shouldn’t Work Retail

Karen Juarez, University of Illinois at Chicago

Nobody lures in student employees like department stores, and there’s a reason why.…

April 4, 2017

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