Unless they have paid a store assistant or porter to carry their purchases for them, that is.
The makers of the film have been sued by the family of a convenience store assistant who was shot by a couple on a violent robbery spree, said to be in imitation of the film.
Staples, the office supplies retail giant, made a similar error in classifying its assistant store managers.
Many employees such as insurance adjusters, assistant store managers and call-center workers whom we typically consider white-collar, and thus exempt, are actually non-exempt.
Mr. Eupierre, a 71-year-old immigrant from Cuba, bought his first Burger King franchise in the late 1970s, after working nights as a Burger King assistant store manager.
Two weeks ago I drove to the store to rehire my old assistant, dressed in new a BlackBerry suit.
That same Verizon Wireless advantage also includes access to the exclusive apps like VZ Navigator for turn-by-turn navigation and maps with millions points of interest, Backup Assistant Plus to store your contacts and sports apps including one for football aficionado.
On top of that, every evening store managers consult a personal digital assistant to check what new designs are available and to place their orders according to what they think will sell best to their customers.
The fact is the marketplace is littered with dozens of novelty watches, all of which tell time well, and which do such things as receive Global Positioning Systems signals, change the channel on TV sets, take pictures and store contact lists like a personal digital assistant.
In New York's famous Macy's store, if you want a shoe in a particular size the retail assistant will look it up in a virtual stock room on a mobile device within seconds.
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In an application with the U.S. Patent Office published in December 2007, Apple described a wireless system that would allow customers to place an order at a store using a wireless device such as a media player, a wireless personal digital assistant or a cellphone.
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