Bath & Body Works interview questions

I applied in person to B&BW on a Friday and the sales associate I gave my application to (included my resume) said that they might start hiring in a couple of weeks. Contrary to what she said, I received a call the next day to schedule an interview for the following Monday. I was informed that the interview would be a group interview. I was a little nervous because I've never had a group interview before. I arrived to the interview 20 minutes early and was told by a sales associate that they weren't quite ready and to browse around the store until they were. Once the manager was ready she took us (group of 8) to the food court and we all sat down. She introduced herself and called roll. Then she wanted to make sure that all of us were comfortable with working the week of Thanksgiving, the week of Christmas, and the week after Christmas (because they're primarily hiring for seasonal). One girl said that she couldn't and then the interviewer told her "Oh, well thank you for your time, but we are only interviewing people with that availability, sorry for the mix up." and then the girl left. I was kind of shocked and felt sorry for that poor girl, but like I said she got up and left. Then the interviewer told all of us that until the holiday sales picked up that we would probably only get 3hrs a week. Everyone said that was fine (even though no one can survive on 3hrs a week). Anyways, the interview process started and everyone had to introduce themselves. The interviewer just sat there and wanted whoever wanted to speak first, go first. So when no one spoke up, I spoke first. That's KEY! Make sure you're the first one to speak and then that way, everyone else can only repeat what you've already said! She asked about 8-10 questions in all and the only reason it took about an hour is because everyone had to answer. At the end she said that she had to check all of our references before offering us a job and that it could take a couple of weeks and then she thanked us for our time.

I downloaded the application online, then took it into the store, where they asked me why I was interested in working there and then signed me up for a group interview for 2 days later. There were 5 of us in the interview - and it took an hour. But the problem was that we didn't speak much, most of that time was taken with the manager explaining the work in the store to us. So the most important aspect of the interview seemed to be first impressions and how you answered the one question they asked (there were actually two, but only 1 of the 5 got to answer the 2nd question before the interviewer got off track), and then we had a role playing situation where you were the salesperson and showed how you would give great customer service. They told us to show our interest by having one of our references call them by the next day. So be prepared to ask a reference to call for you, and make sure they will say good things about you (I think I was offered the job based off what my reference said).