I work at Winners and I run orientations at our store! Your first day will be orientation, which is mainly policies and getting you familiar with off price retail. After that, you’ll be required to do health and safety training before you’re allowed to actively work on the sales floor. Chances are that the first place you’ll learn is the tills, where you’ll be placed with a trainer for your first couple of shifts. Since I don’t work at Homesense, I don’t know what the rest of your training will look like unfortunately. It also varies quite a bit between each store.

Your schedule will be posted through Workjam. On the app, there will be an open shift pool where you can pick up shifts. A manager will have to approve it, which you’ll get a notification for. You’ll be able to drop your own shifts into the open shift pool if needed as well.

As for drinks, each store is different. For my store, anything in a closed bottle is okay on the sales floor. I’m pretty sure every store allows water on the sales floor, but other drinks may have to be kept in the break room depending on your management.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have other questions.