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I left my last job which was in retail for a better job in retail. I worked at Wal-Mart for 7 years. I was a cashier at the front and over time the staffing got so bad every shift was like a skeleton crew, and I hated having to sit there with a line of 5+ people all day because of it. I also hated having to apologize I'm one of two lanes open because when you get down to it, the trillion dollar company obviously could staff their stores better, but they know the average customer will still shop there still or just migrate to buying their shit from the companies website.

I moved to a different sector in retail only found in a handful of states in the US. I now work at a state owned liquor store chain in one of the states that is still control. For me this is night and day. Staffing is much better, no sales goals to push, no credit card apps to push, etc. It's retail but without a lot of the corporate bullshit because it isn't corporate. I am an employee of my states government and also in a union.

I like this job so much more to the point I am now the GM of a store, when before I never would have wanted to be a GM or even just a manager.

For me I just got tired of putting up with being given a bogus set of tools from a billion dollar company almost every shift. Took a minute to get out as I wasn't going to take a pay cut to do so, but it did happen.