Pros
- Annual Raise - Growing Company (always trying out new and exciting development for their brand) - Room for growth after a couple years (but don't expect any career fast tracking) - Cashiers start (slightly) above minimum wage - There is a family culture at the corporate HQ - Some very sweet and amazing managers in my district - Closed on Easter, Christmas Day, and for the first year - Thanksgiving evening (open on all other holidays) - Living near corporate, I was able to participate in merchandising for the flag ship stores and work side-by-side corporate heads. A non-comparable experience to being a store supervisor at a retail competitor. - 401K for all employees. - Organized management structure - Excellent business model branding
Cons
- Payroll budget is very unfair for store managers creating high volume workplace stress for management and crew. Several store managers of the larger Bealls Outlet stores I've observed complaining they don't know how to get all that needs done with how restrictive their payroll is. Company puts exceptionally high standards on their stores compared to their retail competitors, which would be good, but unwilling to front the money for the talent. Instead the company is trying to pressure an almost unreachable "Cartons Per Hour" initiative to press all stores to just "work faster" to keep up with the growth of the company in sales. EXPECT TO HUSTLE! This is unlike working for other stores. - All store associates are brought on as Part-Time. Though all store managers are taught to advocate about the full-time benefits to the store associate candidates in interviews, the company will only only budget approx. 2 -3 full time staff members (outside of the management staff) for the high volume stores. These few full time positions are usually already taken up by "lifers" who have worked for the company for years. - Many stores struggle to fill their supervisor staff due to the non-competitive hourly rates for supervisors (usually just a $1 more than the cashier's rate an hour) - Expect the hourly rate annual raise to only go up a few cents each year. - Very expensive health insurance if you are full time - IT team and technology development is below acceptable standards. Friday before this last Christmas the servers went down and all customers double charged. There has been countless issues with our servers and POS software since I started a few years back.