Your start should be with powerful introduction, which includes name, phone number, email id, address and your retail career in some commanding sentences.

If you had got awards or promotion as a worker in retail field then you can mention them. You may mention if you were got promoted with some specific responsibilities because of your excellent performance.

Previous employment list is also necessary where you can write your previous position that you had hold at each companies. If you have any achievements in previous position such as if you has helped to increase the retail by some percentage for that specific period, then you mention it in your resume.

Before submitting your resume for any company you need to find out everything about that specific company and then make a decision of constructing the cover letter. To know all about the company you may go through the company record, public records, prospects of company and broachers. You may check their company slogan, which defines the strong point of company.

When you are creating cover letter you should start it with presentation by addressing the name of human resource manager. Then you may write the reference or about how you got the news of openings for that position.