In 1809, at age 16, Houston ran away from home, because he was dissatisfied to work as a shop clerk in his older brothers' store.

Even middle-class office workers, students and shop clerks come to the Gikomba market to outfit themselves, shoppers said.

A third was a shop clerk in an apron speckled with blood from his nose.

The positions involved covered a wide range, including attorney, community coordinator, shop clerk and office associate.

In Boston he worked in a counting house and as a shop clerk.

"We wouldn't be carrying those anymore," the shop clerk said.

For the same reason she would not have taken work as a shop clerk.

"I don't have time to talk," a shop clerk, who declined to identify herself, said on a misty Monday morning last week.

How does it feel to be a shop clerk?

But the bank teller or shop clerk moves quickly to English if that is what you speak.