Pros
20% discount was a nice perk.
Cons
The store will be staffed by a skeleton crew almost every day of the week because payroll is terribly tight. The only days I could afford to have extra people in the building was on truck day and markdown day and that’s because they have an expectation to get those done in 8 hours or less. Regardless if the truck shows up on time or not, regardless of the fact that you never actually know what’s even coming on the truck until a day out. The pay is low compared to the competition. Most associates will make whatever your states minimum wage is. I worked as the manager for almost 4 years and I never saw a raise go to an associate that was greater than .40 cents and that raise only comes once a year. The company just recently took away holiday pay and float holidays for associates so that removes even more of a reason to try to convince someone to go to work for Bealls. We are also required to keep applications open all the time so you will apply and get interviewed for a job even though the store has no intention of hiring anyone (and likely because of those ridiculously low payroll budgets and by no fault of your own) As SM I also was not responsible for any promotions. Those had to be approved by the district manager also so regardless if you’re the best person for the job you may not get it because the DM doesn’t like you. If you do decide to work at Bealls you will do the jobs of two or three people for little to no recognition. As I said earlier 5 of the 7 days of the week my store had to run a skeleton crew of just the cashier and supervisor. As a SM your raise is largely based off of factors that you have little to no control over. Your buildings sales being one of them, You cannot force people to come into the store and spend money there. And when they do come in they often don’t find things they want because the freight you’re sent is considerably outdated or just stuff people don’t like. It’s almost as if they look at the data and see things people buy and purposefully don’t send you more of that. You’re also graded on the one question survey at the end of the customer transaction so if they just decide to press a button haphazardly because they are done on you’re store and are tired and want to leave you get punished for it and have to explain why your ratings are bad. You’re also graded hard on your stores ability to get that trick done fast and markdowns fast which is why those were the only days we had more than two people in the building.
