1.   Ask sales associates.

2.   -- If you know how you want to dress, look for a sales associate in a retail store dressed in that manner.

3.   A sales associate answered, in panic.

4.   A spokeswoman for May would say only that sales associates are well trained at doing alterations.

5.   A woman who sold cosmetics at a tony Houston department store said she relied on sales associates to get customers.

6.   A. Not many people are going to buy what your sales associate is saying.

7.   By lying during the presentation, your sales associate was not building much of anything except some animosity from you.

8.   David Block, a sales associate at the Edward S. Gordon office, had been showing space to Blue Sky.

9.   David Torres, a sales associate at the San Francisco-based MACadam store, said he had yet to see a flaw.

10.   Drambo Villar, a sales associate, said they are hard to keep on the shelves.