Retail Sales NY area - Avis employé Retail Sales/Visual Merchandiser The Container Store

2,0
8 août 2012
Recommande
Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

Flexibility with work scheduling Excellent employee discount Good relationship among employees Excellent Training Teamwork among prime-time employees excellent.

Inconvénients

Sales training is good, but not enough manpower on the floor to put man in the desert selling into effect. Company gives a raise range, but even the best sales people don't receive that percentage, due to management trying to keep payroll down. This is a recent development over the last 2 years, since enactment of bonus for store managers to reach payroll goal. All-store meetings take away from payroll to be used on sales floor during that month. Full time staff spends too much time answering to Corporate by email, conference calls, etc... leaving little time for supervision to what is actually going on on the floor. As each store is added (Now at 57) more bureaucracy is added to the mix, and the more the company seems to be more like other retailers where profits are more important than employees. "Health Insurance" for prime-timers not really anything useful. It even gives a warning that it is not considered health insurance in the state of MA. The company believes that they can teach personality by doing these role plays every morning. We get the message. You can't teach someone how to be brave or have the gift of gab needed for sales. Hire people that have sales ability, not try to drum it into their head every morning.

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5,0
27 avr. 2026
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Avantages

Their business, benefits and products are all incredible.

Inconvénients

My position did not allow for a healthy work/life balance. I was never "off".

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3,0
28 janv. 2026
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Approbation du PDG
Perspective commerciale

Avantages

The Container Store has the most thorough training process of any company I've worked for. The environment was nice, and my coworkers and managers were all great. The employee discount is significant.

Inconvénients

I applied because I was not getting the hours I was promised by my other part-time retail job. During the hiring process, they said I could work as many hours as I wanted, up to 29 hours per week. They did not mention until I was hired and asking for my hours that hours are dependent on how many customers you get to sign up for the rewards program. As a cashier, everyone I checked out who was not a part of the rewards program and did not want to be counted against me. Customers who are already a part of it don't factor in. I could check out 40 people in a shift, only have 5 who weren't part of the program, and only get 2 of them to sign up, and I would be penalized for that with my hours. If you work floor shifts and sign people up on the floor, it's able to boost your score since you don't interact with non-rewards members who don't want to join the system at all, but I was never offered floor shifts. They expected a 60-70% conversion rate, which is not realistic. Most people who want to be part of the program already are, and those who aren't typically aren't willing to even hear your 20-second pitch about it.

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