The Shop Flaw

We left retail. It’s going great.*

Two retail dropouts on imploding careers, impossible rent, ADHD chaos and the occasional existential crisis — still itemising it all, one episode at a time.

This week’s crisis: rent

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I left retail. Now what?A customer returned a candle. Fully burned. To the base.Career imploded. Only retail therapy can help.Head office visited. We hid the broken till behind a plant.She tried on fourteen coats and bought a keyring.My manager scheduled me to work my own leaving drinks.Someone paid £900 in coins. We counted it. Twice.The mystery shopper was my mum.

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