Head office doesn't care - Sales Associate DeSerres Employee Review

3.0
Jan 24, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible hours, nice coworkers who are knowledgeable in art. relaxing environment and growth and friendship is encouraged.

Cons

Head office doesn't care about it's bottom line. Devices aren't updated, store aren't updated. Employees are more like specialists but paid like retail associates. This job requires you to know a lot about art, chemicals, interactions between different mediums and much more and the amount of technical knowledge you need I think should be compensated more. Framing only pays you $30 more/month working full time. It is a high stress department where you need to communicate with customers who can be very particular, communicate with vendors and hold them accountable when they make mistakes but still maintain relationships. The service fee goes directly to head office. You are essentially a retail worker with even more work even though you need to know a lot about building frames. Cutting mats, glass, proper cleaning and making a frame an archival environment for customers most precious items. But you're paid peanuts.

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2.0
Jan 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

It used to have a good amount of discounts for employees until Renaud bray cut off those many benefits and discounts Deserres used to offer.

Cons

Renaud bray purchase of the company sucked the soul of the artist within the ranks.

3.0
Jul 30, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people I work with are awesome and the job is pretty chill and rewarding as far as retail goes

Cons

If you stay for a long time you will have more and more responsibilities added without sufficient pay increases (sometimes with no pay increase). New parent company is known for aggressive union busting with multiple locations of their book store going on strike recently and I don't see them improving anything except profits. Other recent policy changes (like removing the points program entirely etc) have been putting us in a difficult situation with customers, even regulars are telling us that they are going elsewhere for art supplies now.

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