I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.

Goods were arranged in glass cabinets as if they were ancient Egyptian artefacts. I was a contaminant, a fly in the gourmet soup, a spanner in the golden machine that sparkled and hummed before my eyes."

Reid, A. J. (2012-11-08). A Smaller Hell (Kindle Locations 319-321). . Kindle Edition.

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'