shop assistant
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a salesperson in a store
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shop-assistant
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Attenberg’s prose is nimble, chopping from character to character — even briefly to minor roles, like the shop assistant who encounters Twyla buying lipsticks to ward off an emotional breakdown.
“We would usually have double this number of people on the streets,” said Chun You-ju, a shop assistant in the district.
Later that year, he posted a photograph of a male shop assistant with long hair and earrings and said that his children “shouldn’t have to see that.”
One pharmacy nearby had almost sold out, with the shop assistant saying they only had one “cheaper, less effective” mask left.
The shop assistant said that it was the market roof leaking again!
"We never thought the book would be so popular and didn't stock enough copies," said a book shop assistant, Chen Yan, who is based in a branch of Xinhua Bookstore in Shanghai.