I need to give a shout out to my friend Mandy who pointed me towards this book…
First the Goodreads blurb…
This book dishes the true dirt on working in a supermarket – from the bizarre customers you will meet to the managers you will learn to loathe. Best of all, you can read it for free using the kindle unlimited app for Iphone, Android and Windows. Own your copy today.
First let’s talk about the blurb because, to be honest, if I had come across this book with that blurb I would not have read it, as it was it was recommended to me so I thought let’s give it a go.
If you have ever worked in retail you are going to chuckle through this book, in fact if you have ever worked in any job where you are under a manager you are going to find bits that apply to you no matter what your job is, the interview process made me laugh and remember my own, which was not dissimilar. As many of you know I work in a supermarket as my day job so the book should have been a huge hit with me, and it was to a point. In many aspects, the book did not go far enough, not sure if it was through fear of being identified or the worry that no one would believe some of the more colourful tales that most retail workers could tell. I have commented before if I wrote a book about my personal experiences that people would dismiss them as being too far-fetched to be true. So while this book was amusing and did make me laugh it could have gone further.
My second issue with this is something I hate bringing up, but I have to, none of us are perfect, and I can forgive a few grammatical errors, I can even forgive the occasional typo but there are a few spelling mistakes in this book which as it is fairly short I would have expected to be picked up on. I feel I have to bring this up because firstly they are obvious and secondly because if I am suggesting you spend your money on something I have to be honest.
I struggled to decide on a score for this because I did enjoy it but I have to be honest and consider it in terms of what it is and my expectations, in the end, I decided that 3.5 out of 5 is a fair score (though as I mark up on Goodreads because they do not give half score options it will get a 4 there). The book has potential and I do believe the author has talent and an excellent conversational style of narration, I just needed it to go further and be run through a good spell checker or even the free Grammarly program (which I do now use).
Paula Acton 