LPT: When looking for unskilled retail/hospitality/restaurant jobs, go to the physical location and introduce yourself to the manager. What's on your resume/application matters a lot less than how you present in person

I've worked retail HR for 15 years, and for hourly jobs like this, people are almost never selected because a manager picked them out of a stack of online applications. They might get 300 applications in 3 days, and often experience doesn't matter at all. What matters is can this person talk to customers, pass a drug test, and read and write. Probably 7/10 hourly associates that my managers hire are walk-ins who were clean-cut, well spoken, and professional.

There are so many threads in the various job-related subs where people are frustrated that they've applied to 10 restaurants, retail stores, fast food places, etc, and get no response. They don't realize that no retail manager has time to read the hundreds of applications that come in. That's a last ditch effort. You never know who will show up to that interview. How some one presents in person is soooo much more important than anything else for these jobs.