I recognized her as a fellow sales associate at Saks Fifth Avenue across the street.

It is important for a sales associate to greet the customer and make himself available to help the customer find whatever he needs.

"I felt the whole building shake," Tanya Lynn, a sales associate at the store, said.

"For example, a sales associate we placed at the Limited II is one of the store's most valued employees."

His father retired as a sales associate at the Lord & Taylor store in Manhattan.

Ms. Burke, a sales associate with 15 years of retail experience, has had her share of shoplifters.

What isn't in the store can be ordered, and as one sales associate recently told a customer, "I'll call you as we're unpacking the book."

"Men are turning increasingly to a tailor or a knowledgeable sales associate to inform them about how clothes are made," he said.

She is a real estate sales associate with the Charles Reinhart Company there.

He and his wife, Eileen, 55, a sales associate at a promotions company, are avid riders.

Customers can try on any style of ring without asking for a sales associate's permission.

The new technology has not replaced any sales associates, but some employees have been moved to the stockroom.

A sales associate said that several had been sold, and that three were in stock.

To date, 10,000 sales associates in the United States have signed up for the program.

Under that contract, the average annual pay of a sales associates was $47,000.

A reversal of that would be good news for employees, mostly sales associates who do not have opportunities to find new positions.

Under that accord, the average annual pay of a sales associate was $47,000.

But the problem, according to sales associates, is that there is just too much to do.

We teach our sales associates to look out for that man wandering around.

The merger forms a company with more than 42 sales associates.