Personal Narrative: A Major Retail Store

When I was seven years old I used to live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, I attended Harvest Prep Middle School. A lot of my friends talk about what I thought was a dream, The Mall of America. It was the biggest Mall in the USA. I begged my mom can we go, but it was always the same answer NO! Javaughn, We don’t have the money for that rite now! I was devastated, all my friends came to school talking about all the excitement that was there.

When I was working at Target there were two mangers that I was to train and help if they needed it. The conflict was that they come in and changed everything in our stations. Which was uncomfortable due to that I had more experience and was working there longer. Nothing work well within the ream after that point.

Detail oriented, self-motivated team player with strong organization skills and follow through, ability to multitask and meet all deadlines. Successful long work history with Whole Foods Market.

Throughout high school, I continuously explored a wide variety of courses in an attempt to figure out what career path I may want to pursue. As senior year drew closer, the business field became more enticing. Furthermore, my aspirations were significantly impacted on the evening of September 14, 2016. I woke up that day and left for school as if it were any other day. After school, I drove to the softball field because we had a game and it just so happened to be Senior Night: the last home game. When it came time for my first at bat, I stepped up to the plate and hit a line drive between the first and second basemen, successfully making it to first base. The next player up to bat hit a double; I rounded second and sprinted for third. I clearly remember my coach kneeling on the ground to signal me to slide into third base. For some unknown reason, I hesitated and slid too late. I knew it was a bad slide, but I was focusing on whether or not I was safe. Then reality set in, I was safe, but I was not physically capable of standing up.

I’ve always asked myself,” what does it really take to make it big? To play amongst the greats, how could I do that? Me, Skylar Ross, a young man with this desire, the passion, wanting to play side by side with legends, to become someone people talk about, is what has pushed me all these years. It drove me to become a better player, to become more informed about the sport. This also influenced me to become more intertwined with school, that way I could have a better chance at getting a scholarship at a college.

It was an average weeknight, my brothers and I goofing around, my mom sewing, and my dad was out getting groceries. All of a sudden my dog Rascal started spazzing on the ground and breathing really heavy. It was very confusing at first because he was fine and then he wasn’t. We put a blanket under him and relaxed with him. When my dad came home he said stuff in my private with my mom and they came back in and said it was time for bed. So we all went to bed hoping he was going to be okay.

In the world of commerce and retail today, there are a variety of retail stores that are all geared toward the customers who are interested in saving money and finding bargains on their daily purchases, as well as on some of their major purchases. Some of the retail stores that are in this category of low prices and discount prices are Big K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Inc., Fred’s Dollar Store, Family Dollar Store, and Ollie’s Bargain. Due to the increase in e-commerce and online purchases, several of these retail stores, such as Big K-Mart and Fred’s Dollar stores are closing in many areas of the country. Since there has been an increase in the demand for more sales and discounts by customers and there are less discounts stores available, retail stores

I came into your store today at around 5:30 pm. I had purchased a t.v from the electronics department, for $800.00. When I got home I noticed as soon as I took it out of the box, the base of the t.v was scratched. It wasn’t scratched badly enough for me to want to take it back, until I plugged it in and the screen was broken. I immediately called Walmart and the manager of the electronics department, and he told me it was nothing he was able to do. I couldn’t get my money back or even a new t.v to replace it. I wanted to contact you personally to see if there was anything we can set up seeing how I bought a $800.00 t.v from your store that was broke. Thanks for your time.

A small amount of time after school got out for summer my family, Kyla Carson, and I went to Minnesota. It was a long, grueling , and 8 hour trip from Arthur to Minnesota. When we finally got there we could see the Mall of America, which was connected to our hotel. I looked forward to the amusement park, eating the food, and the shopping. From 7p.m. to 10p.m. the amusement park had free rides and games for the group we were in. I had an amazing time because I could do anything since it was free. The pizza we had one day was amazing. The shopping was the best since there was enough shops to choose from. The Mall of America had specialty shops including The Peeps Store, The Lego Store , many specialty chocolate store, and many more.

He went back to NC that night because he still had to work next day. He was waiting to transfer his positioning to Sevierville store. Everything was still the same, he came every weekend and we had such good time. We had plan about going to see my family in 2016 and we were working and saving money on it.

One day, I was getting ravenous. But I wanted something sweet. So I thought, maybe I could ask my mom to go to the store and buy me some candy. So I put ‘candy’ on the grocery list , and my mom goes to the store every Friday. So when Friday came, i came home from school and THERE WAS CANDY ON THE COUNTER! Bags and bags and bags! I want to dive right in! But, i wasn't allowed. My mom said,“You have to wait til the memorial day parade.”

After putting the phone back in I felt that whole world spinning. Steadying myself, I took a quick moment to rest. “What should I do now?” I thought to myself, the fuzz’ll be here any moment and Dally had been abolishing a store item last time I saw him. Thinking back to what Johnny said earlier, I decided to go back to the store where I had seen Dally. Walking towards the store, I gradually started to gain speed as I noticed the alarm had started to ring in the direction of the store, despite the injuries from the rumble and my aching body. Running like the wind, Dally had exited the door and was on his way towards what seemed like another phone booth on the side of the street. Funny how I had never seen that there. I ran in the same direction, hoping the gang would get here soon, I reached the booth and stood in the way, between the phone and Dally. Surprised , he stared at my figure for a second, like he was taking in that I was actually standing right there, blocking him. “Get out of my way, Pony.” He said firmly, a couple dollar bills escaping from his back pocket.

Remember those trips to the store or the mall you took with your mom because you either wanted something or you had to go? Everywhere you went, there’s always that one family with that one child that does something to the extreme that embarrasses them to cause everyone in the store to look. They could be running around knocking things down, screaming to the top of their lungs because they couldn’t get what they wanted. Then you always have that one in the family that believes they are invisible and runs around the store with little to no clothes on. It’s funny at first because you know you would never do that at all. However, that is when you’re older and you don’t believe the stories your parents tell you. I, undoubtingly, fall into that category.

In my previous employment to Safeway, there was a particularity high turnover of day stockers; and often, management would be too overloaded with training extraneous duties to properly train newcomers. In support of the whole team, I would take it upon myself to train the greenhorns. Over the course of a few months, (and a few handful of newbies), my success at new personnel training had gone noticed, and the turnover rate had dropped

Last night I was sitting down to do my homework in my room and I got a text from my roommate saying she needed my help at the mall. I called and asked if she was okay and if she was hurt, she replied and said that her car broke down and she still needed to run more errands. So being the good friend I am I went to the mall down the street and I called her back to ask where she was, she told me that she was at the Belk entrance. I drove around to the entrance and I see her walking towards me. She gets into the car and I looked to her and said where do you need to go. She told me that she needed to go to: Wal-Mart, Kroger, rue21, the bank, and pick up her niece from pre k. So we started our journey to Wal-Mart to start.