Macy's Observation Paper

For my observation, I decided to go to Macy’s, a large department store in Coronado Mall. I entered Macy’s from the first floor of the mall, where their makeup and perfume section is prominently displayed. Almost all the cashiers in the makeup and perfume department were female, except for one man. Behind the makeup department are women’s clothes, lined with racks of sale items. There are two more sections of women’s clothing upstairs, ranging from ‘juniors’ to ‘plus-size’. Some of the cash registers in these departments are empty, only a few have women working behind them.
Merchandisers move throughout the store, pushing dollies full of home accessories and luggage. About half of them are male, the others female all doing similar jobs. The