make sure you're passionate about retail - Assistant Store Manager Kohl's Employee Review

4.0
Aug 19, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Provides great benefits and a decent salary. There is opportunity for advancement and is a good place to start out. You will learn a lot about how to manage people and essentially run a small business. You have more responsibility and learning opportunities at a faster pace than you would starting out somewhere else.

Cons

Be prepared to work long hours, holidays and weekends. You truly have to be passionate about what you do to enjoy this job. Depending on what role you're in, there may be a lot of physical work as well. It is high stress and fast paced and places a lot of pressure on you to meet your goals.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 22, 2026
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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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