About Retail Worker Confessions

Rob, the founder of Retail Worker Confessions starts working in retail. As you can see from the look on his face, he’s having the time of his life. At this point, let’s pause for a moment to appreciate the relics of that era — the CRT monitor, the CDRW player, the Samsung flip phone, Rob’s hairline…

Rob spends 10 years cocking about in retail. He tells everyone that he “will get another job soon”. Secretly, he’s crapping his pants (metaphorically and physically) at the thought of being stuck in retail forever. He joins the management training program and after a year of intense training, hard work and dedication, he discovers that he’s an awful Retail Manager.

Rob releases a short book about his time in retail called Retail Stole My Life. The book is filled with spelling mistakes and questionable grammar but sells well on Amazon. Rob uses the royalties to retrain as a professional writer, quits retail for good and starts a fresh life in digital marketing.

Rob founds the Retail Stole My Life Facebook page and grows it to over 100,000 followers. Each day, thousands of retail workers like, share and comment on the content that it shares.

With retail workers subject to 155,000 incidents of abuse and violence each year, we work with the UK House of Commons to push for improved protections – full details here. This follows a petition titled: “Protect Retail Workers from Abuse, Threats and Violence” that reached over 100,000 signatures.

The Retail Worker Confessions community launches on Facebook. The group rapidly gains over 200,000 members, making it one of the biggest retail worker groups in the world. As of 2020, the group is one of the most active groups on Facebook with 500 posts per day, 100,000 comments per week and over 1.5 million reactions per month.

With a community of over 300,000 retail workers spread across multiple social media platforms, we launch the Retail Worker Confessions website. Our goal is to entertain and empower retail workers across the world through stories, confessions, opinions and much more.