[Abby4116]

Does anyone know what Macy's, Sears, Target, KMart pay their associates? Retail never did pay good wages but they never seemed to have a problem finding people willing to work for what they paid.

[durasell]

If you're working high end retail you can do six figures easily. But you need skills for that.

[ARCADIA]

Retail never did pay good wages

They use to pay professional level wages back during the 50 and 60s. Back then, your appliance salesman was expected to be knowledgeable enough to assists his customers, and retail sales people were expected to study product manuals and other publications to stay current. The paradigm that the average retail sales clerk should be just a notch above a trained chimp has not always been the case. It started going that way when store hours were first extended during the 1970s.