1.   Get advice from a knowledgeable sales clerk.

2.   The sales clerk was anything but helpful.

3.   Although color television sets were selling at deep discounts, a sales clerk confided that she would be lucky to sell one a day.

4.   An unscientific, random sampling of calls to popular area stores found many sales clerks who had no idea a tax-free week was imminent.

5.   And she and Ashley McGovern, a sales clerk, recalled another visitor.

6.   As a result, in addition to Merzlyak, six years ago Lepore and his wife hired another native Russian sales clerk, Marina Yoshpa.

7.   At a large Fiat dealership in downtown Sao Paulo, eight sales clerks passed the afternoon twirling in their swivel chairs.

8.   At Williams-Sonoma, the sales clerks warm cider and help a gaggle of shoppers pick out cooking supplies.

9.   At this time of year, hordes of shoppers confront temporary sales clerks, who may be the least well trained of all.

10.   Behind the counter was the sales clerk with the ponytail.