Great culture with a horribly cheap parent company.
Pros
Competent professionals inside the stores. Healthy ethical view toward customers. Employees become very knowledgeable working here. Store managers I've been in contact with have been some of the best I have met in retail.
Cons
The parent company that owns Edwin Watts has cut sales associate commissions from 3% to 0.25% and have raised and kept it at 0.75%. If I sell a $1000, I make $7.50. They also cut all matching on 401k, vacations time, sales contests and incentives. We have no advertising budget for the store and we loose so much business to the competition because they advertise and we don't. Like the $10,000,000,000 that owns us cant drop a few k on some golf channel ads??? All three competitors run the same promo because they are sponsored by the manufactures. But no one knows we run them because we cant advertise.
