Bath and Body Works experience - Store Manager Bath & Body Works Employee Review

3.0
Dec 3, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great products and lots of avenues for promotion. As far as the company operations, Bath and Body Works is competent and there is excellent communication coming from upper management.

Cons

As a store manager, I was getting paid $55,000 a year to ring on a register for about 6-7 hours a day. The other 2-3 hours I was stocking shelves. It was usually myself with just 1 other person in the whole store. No time to analyze the business or train and develop my employees. There was not enough payroll to keep the store well stocked, organized, and clean. Most of the employees, including myself, worked constantly at a fast pace, however, it was impossible to run that store up to standard with such little payroll hours allotted. As the store manager, I had to create the schedule. During the holidays, with more than 100 part time employees, the schedule could take me up to 6 hours to complete which I had to do on my day off.

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Great brand to work for! Corporate leaders are great at motivating team down to associate level. (Not sure about Daniel yet though, I’m mostly referring to the tentured leadership team) There’s access to tools that offer clear communication (almost too much communication sometimes). Development is the core of this brand and managers are trained to foster internal talent when it’s identified. The product sold here is cherished by a huge fanbase as well- customers feed off of the excitement the associates have around the product.

Cons

Operationally demanding and challenging; don’t underestimate how much labor and planning goes into selling candles and lotion.

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