Serving customers at retail stores

You are a sales assistant in a retail store and your shift for the day just started. You go about your daily routine which includes greeting customers when they enter the store, answering product questions, assisting customers in selecting the right product and stacking shelves whenever needed.

Later during the day, a customer approaches you and asks for a refund for a purchased product. They look agitated and in a rush. It is up to you to decide whether you’ll take the situation into your own hands and handle the refund, or redirect the customer to the store manager.

If you handle it yourself, you may refund the money without asking whether they still have the receipt or you may do it properly, but the store manager gets angry because this is not your job responsibility. If you redirect them to the store manager, they’ll handle the situation accordingly.

At the end of this training, you should be prepared to work as a sales assistant in retail stores and be familiar with your daily responsibilities.