Belk reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(3,873 total reviews)

Don Hendricks

44% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Belk has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 3,873 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Belk employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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4K reviews
3.0
Feb 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The 20% discount was nice.

Cons

For not even making commission Belk has a pretty poor setup. You have to compete with the same people you're told to help. People are cut-throat, especially when they're long-term employees because Belk does biannual reviews and adjusts pay according to your sales. Not to mention that many of the customers are thieves or rude to the employees. The scheduling was horrendous: closing one night and opening the next morning, not being able to take off work on holidays or otherwise, working every Sunday or every weekend day. Part-time employees were given the better deal with scheduling. Convincing people to get the charge card was another issue. We had to be persistent to make them sign up even when the customers would never be approved. I counted down the days until I left.

3.0
Jan 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some managers are really nice and helpful. Most of the associates are really nice and will help you out.

Cons

Company expects way to much from you. Unloading freight is to hard and should be done on the loading dock not on sales floor by selling staff. It makes a hugh mess that no one has time to clean up. Several people in my store have been hurt working the truck on sales floor. Seems like a bad system. Company has gone down hill in the last year.

2.0
Jan 23, 2013

They do not reward hard work.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Discount, dealoing with GOOD customers

Cons

We are supposed to watch for theives....GET A CLUE...sensor everything and have more associates on the floor. Right now, it is cut, cut, cut hours...perfect time for stealing. Belk does not reward hard work, it is all about the register. The floor looks like trash but no one can leave the almighty register to do any real work because of SPH. Even JCP could read the writing on the wall and stopped SPH.

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