Avantages
Started with the company 3 and half years ago. Life was good then, bonuses, spiffs, free shoes each quarter. Supply was predictable, shoes changed out seasonally, clearance shoes shipped out to outlets. Everyone knew what was going on.
Inconvénients
A year and a half ago, the company restructured. Supply gets messed up nothing moves out of the stores anymore at the end of season, Supply shipment tracking is a nightmare. Company has run continuous back to back sales for over a year now. More and more new styles keep arriving without removing any older styles to make room for the new product. Stock rooms are over stocked with excessive product. Company does not remove non selling product. Company sends winter shoes to warm 80F locations. Company starts bean counting every little thing (KPI's, emails, sales etc...). The company fails to implement new directives properly. Most new directives are prohibitive to getting the workload accomplished. I started off with a 36 hour work week. A year and a half into the job I received a .49 cent an hour raise. Two months after that, I get my hours cut to 32 hours per week. I had unfiltered access during a upper management visit to the Director of Retail Operations, and the guy in charge of distribution. I gave them lots of suggestions, they took lots of notes and agreed with plenty things I had to say. Now waiting to see if anything changes for the better with the company.