That's critically important, as a lot of retail store clerks didn't even know what a Windows Phone was last year.

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His parents, grocery store clerks, had his seven younger brothers and a sister to raise.

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Store clerks and restaurant staff can be surly and have the capacity for stunning rudeness should they decide a customer is behaving densely.

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