Ethnography

       To work at Star Market is one of the hard things in Providence. Star Market has good and bad aspects. People who I work with are like a family, we help each other to make everything easy. We do all this because we are here for one reason, which is to get the balance of our life, and living in a good situation, and also to get a good degree to go back to our countries to have a good job.

        Star Market is one of the popular stores in providence because of its location. It is in providence RI, right on broad St. It is also close to the freeway and down town, it's also close to two important streets in providence. Federal Hill and Elmwood Ave. Star Market is not a very big one and not a very small store at the same time, but it's really nice. It consists of a lot of things, such as stock place, or basement, which provides us the appropriate conditions to work and stock our products. Also, it has a small kitchen which is large enough for us to arrange our work tools. We also have the latest stuff like a TV, Radio, and refrigerator for milk, ice coffee, candy, and cakes.

        Star Market has a good daily income every season, because we serve all kind of people; we deal with poor and rich, crazy and wise, and also with sick and healthy. The area is really dangerous especially at night, because there are a lot of people selling drugs there. Those people have no education nor wisdom. They come in the night really high, which means they can do anything. They come to bother you and they try to play with you. They also come to eat because drugs always make them hungry. They buy sweet things a lot, which we put on the shelves to catch their eyes.

        Star Market has a deli, where customers can get fresh meat, vegetables, and fruits. We have a lot of varieties of meat, such as chicken, goat, beef, and lamb. We also give good offers, like we cut it for free and we clean it because some people do like it skinless. We have also “ halal meat” available, which Muslims like, and most of Christians fall in love with it. All these offers have reasonable prices; Lamb costs six dollars, goat costs five dollars and fifty cents, beef costs three dollars and fifty cents, and chicken costs only one dollar and seventy nine cents. In addition to that, we have lamb mix, lam leg, beef leg, chicken leg and chicken breast.

       Star Market also carries groceries. We have an arrangement of Pakistani, Indian, American, and Arabic groceries, as well as, we import from Arabic nations to perfectly provide fresh stuff. \We also have fast food like cream cheese, American cheese, and Arabic cheese. We carry also break -fast, lunch, and dinner. We sell buffalo, Harrira, Zemeta and Falafel. We do delivery to satisfy the demands of our customers.

        On the other hand, Star Market carries flavored Hookah tobacco, Cigarette, Dutch cigars, and monkeys. But the most popular one is Hookah because most people smoke it just for fun. Hookah has a lot of flavors available, like two apples, grape, watermelon, honey, rosemary, mango, strawberry, mint, and many more with for only 6.99 dollars with a special offer. They order it with drinks like coffee, latte, cappuccino, Tea, smoothies, and flavored tea. They also can order it with salads, sandwiches, shish kabab, hummus, and more. However, we sell a lot of monkeys because it doesn't show in test drugs it's not for human consumption but 80percent of our customers they smoke it, even if we told them that it is not for humans consumption, and we show them that it's on the top of the package.

       Star-market accepts every kinds of card, such as credit card, debit cards, EBT, food stamps, cash, and we do credit, too, just with the regular customers. Star-market also has signs for everything. For example, we put all the directions on the wall, like restrooms, place of candies, milk, groceries, and for employes too, to remind them to wash their hand if they go to restroom. If you go there you don't need to ask anybody, you have to follow just the pictures then you will reach what you are looking for without a hard time. It is easy to shop at Star Market.

       Star-market has healthy food because we deal with famous companies like Hood company,

they bring us milk, half and half, whole milk, low fast milk, orange juice, apple juice, banana juice, and sugar free juice. Moreover, we have a room with clean tables, clean chairs, and candles. It's specially for families and lovers, nobody else is allowed to go there. We have also a small small place for kids with a few toys just to enjoy their time with their parents.

       Star-market workers are always ready to give help to their customers. We love working there because we help each other, and because our boss never treats us as a worker. He always lets us feel like we work in our own business and even if we make mistakes, he encourage us to do things our own way instead of insisting on his, and this deal always lets us work hard.

      In conclusion, if you work at Star-market you feel that you are at your home. It is easy to work there. Nobody tells you what you should do because each one knows his job and he does it correctly. Also, working the morning shift is easier than to working the night shift.