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Mission Creep - Bookseller Half Price Books Employee Review

3.0
Nov 21, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Benefits may not be exceptional, but they exist - Ability to use store as library

Cons

- Mission starts with "be fair to customers and our employees" but the changes I saw while working there and what I continue to see contradict that. Employees have lost benefits even as the company opens more stores. Prices are gouged on some media with express direction from management to take advantage of low-info shoppers - Individual stores can have drama - Stores are getting boring and harder-to-browse and your coworkers may no longer be up to speed on books, media, etc. - Hard to advance - Individual store management varies, but corporate management is definitely profits-before-people

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Cons

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