Instead of receiving salaries, clerks paid their employers for work experience.
Like Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart in 1962, Woolworth was able to keep prices low by ruthless cost cutting -- using self-service to reduce the number of sales clerks, paying them low wages and encouraging tight control over inventory.
Today every Supreme Court justice is entitled to four law clerks, paid for by big government, to draft all opinions.
From 9 am clerks paid out cents for the old pieces; outside the Mint precincts, early purchasers sold the new cents at a premium.
You report on an 80-200 building" on the Upper West Side, in which Angela Faulcon, a low-paid government clerk, pays $532 instead of the $2,400 paid by the other tenants ("The Slow Fadeout of Rent Regulated Apartments," April 10).
The Commons clerk, paid £200,000 a year, acts as the chief executive of the House and is responsible for the running of the property, and 2,000 staff on site.
"How many times in life do you hear of buyers negotiating with clerks to pay more for something?" she asked.
We dropped by Merola's grocery store one day, having forgotten a wallet, and the clerk said, 'Pay me later.' That's the kind of town it is".
The 'activity time' for the cash billing service is defined from when the patient stood before the clerk to pay the bill to the printing of the receipt and its delivery.
True, stockbrokers and sales clerks are paid on commission.
