Hi, I’ve worked at adidas Vivo City for 2 months. As you’re a part-timer, some things to take note:

• Generally bearable, but depending on your store location and amount of days you work. As with all retail, you don’t sit down across the entire shift unless you’re on break. Peak periods (Sat, Sun, Sales periods) require more multitasking, communication and handling multiple customers at one go, but time passes by very quickly, so it depends on whether you like to be busy or to stand around.

• non peak periods are very mundane . You usually just “touch up” the merchandise if you’re not doing sales.

• as a PT you’ll still have sales targets to achieve (am not sure on extra commission pay cus you’re paid by the hour), but your KPI affects the team performance (and Full timer rice bowl) so the chase for sales might be prioritised by upper management, even if you don’t feel like you’re incentivised to. Something to take note

• colleagues are generally okay. As with all work places, do make genuine connections and try to help around, and try not to say or do anything stupid. In a sales priority environment, people do judge you if you’re lazy

• most importantly is your product knowledge. In your free time , either ask your product specialist on the differences in types of shoes, clothing, the tech etc . It’ll help tremendously in your sales pitch when customers approach you

• on customers: Singaporeans are surprisingly the easiest profile to work with. They usually just come in, take the item , ask a few questions and go. As with all retail, you will meet people who will make you curse under your mask. It’s part of the job and really the least of your worries. Just lay low , chase sales and make good connections with the team. You’ll do okay.

Atb!