Limited growth with no guidance - Store Manager Sunglass Hut Employee Review

1.0
Aug 23, 2012
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Pros

The discount it nice and the work load is extremely light. Management really only has to make schedules, month end paperwork and audit monthly receipts. Shipments are small and typically come with new product which is exciting. I had a really great team I worked with which made things more enjoyable. You can be prompted very fast, I started as a pt sales and worked into a Store Manager position within a year. Commission was awesome if you work in a high volume store. Minimal supervision/touch base with Regionals which is a pro and con

Cons

Management Salary is extremely low but the role is essentially a glorified sales associate. payroll hours are very minimal. They had no marketing strategies to bring business in to smaller volume stores which resulted in associates and managers not making goal/commissions. You can work alone and can not take 15 min breaks or lunch breaks (which is illegal) Not a very inspiring place to work I saw some people who did not truely deserve promotions take on larger rolls for being a kiss ass No loss prevention techniques

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5.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

good pass time to earn money on the side

Cons

loads of online learning materials and lectures you need to consistently watch and do quizzes on

4.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Getting 1% of your sales commission every month + base play + bonuses depending on how well the store does adds up a lot. When I worked here, I was one of the best sellers in my district and my store was 14/21 in our district - which led to me making roughly $21-$23 an hour once you added everything up and divided by the amount of time that I worked. Stocking and pushing stuff to the floor is cartoonishly easy considering how small the sunglasses and that packaging actually is. AP is super easy because there's not that much ground to cover. The biggest thing is that this job basically lives and dies by how good of a seller you are and how much of a people person you are. 80% of this job is just about making sales and hitting company quotas and the other 20% is visual merchandising, operational management, making schedules, etc.

Cons

In my district, the district manager kept badgering us about our numbers and moving goal post for us even when we were off the clock and getting in touch with him was nearly impossible. They're also really nitpicky when it comes to how you allocate hours and how you schedule people - even when the store is already meeting company goals. There's also just a lot of straight up favoritism in upper upper management and a lot of nonsense decisions the DM just made because of "vibes" and nothing else. They pushed a lot of unrealistic goals for stores on super short notice and they came up with a lot of ideas that were just kinda trash - while forcing us to swallow it and to try to make it work.

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