Sales Associate - Retail Sales Associate Kohl's Employee Review

4.0
Oct 10, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

* Very flexible schedule (you can decide to work a ton of hours per week or very little hours) * Casual dress code (a somewhat business casual is expected, but there are many jean days throughout the year) * Free food & drinks on certain occasions (holidays, associate appreciation week) * Associate Discount (fluctuates throughout the year depending on the sales going on in the store, but gets as high as 50% off certain items) * Store managers are almost always really friendly * Variety of different departments to work in the store

Cons

* Credit solicitation goals that are usually way out of reach and hardly under an employee's control * Depending on which of the store managers you work with during your shift, your day could be great or terrible * Inconsistent work environment - some days the store will be really slow and nobody will call out of their shift, other days the store will be severely understaffed and extremely busy * Stores are always trying to cut on payroll before busy weekends * Hourly pay is low for the amount of work you do some days * Although not much training is needed, it's basically nonexistent for most hires * Very high turnover of managers and supervisors * Long store hours year long, unnecessarily longer hours during holiday season * Highly inefficient daily processes throughout the store

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Pay is very good once you start getting raises. Weekly pay

Cons

Genuinely everything else, the pay is that high because they have to pay you over 25 just to put up with the awful environment. terrible structure, terrible management, no accountability, cliquey mean girl environment. managers are allowed to sit around and do essentially nothing while supervisors carry 100% of the load and there is no checks and balances to ensure management does the right thing. Corporate and HR genuinely don't care if certain people sit on their butt While others keep the business running. Credit card pushing is absolutely Off the Wall insane. Getting enough credit cards is all the company cares about and managers do not help. Managers are allowed to have no history with getting any credit cards at all and corporate doesn't bat an eye. If you try to speak out about anything that's going on you'll just get fired. Retaliation is allowed and encouraged.

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