Earthbound Trading reviews

"earth friendly" yet buys 99% of their stuff from China. Lies to customers about fair trade and handmade when again, all this is from China. Acts like employees are working for commission yet doesn't pay commission and has insane sales goals and punishes employee numbers when it comes to selling clearance items because they want every sale to average at least $30. Pushing to sell sell sell when people hate being hounded about sales. No upward mobility at all. This job is super corporate for what it is and it is not a good place to work. If you want to be treated like Verizon sales go work for Verizon and get commission.

-Senior leadership often came across as very inexperienced, making statements such as “data doesn’t matter” when speaking about the customer demographic. The inexperience and lack of direction made it impossible to get everyone on the same page as far as the brand and who the customer was. It’s easy to point fingers at the buyers, which many certainly did, but the direction starts from the top. -I experienced inappropriate comments and upsetting interactions that were gender-based. For a company that boasts having a female CEO and preaches inclusivity, that was unfortunately not my experience. -Poor pay and PTO. The company relies too much on “culture” to keep employees happy, but “culture” doesn’t pay bills. -Little to no resources for the buying team. Including planning/allocation, legal, quality/compliance, etc. Honestly I’m not surprised there were so many quality and copyright issues during my time there. People were quick to point the finger at the buyers (notice a trend?) , but refused to look at the bigger picture. We were working bare bones and doing our best with the resources we had, which was not much. Maybe it was fine when Earthbound had 10-20 locations, but for a larger company the way it’s set up right now is not sustainable.