Great company, terrible pay, limited opportunities for advancement - Merchandise Assistant Belk Employee Review

4.0
Apr 21, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great presence in the community, fun workplace at the corporate office, very dedicated to community service initiatives, CEO and other power players are very visible/approachable.

Cons

Pay is significantly low compared to others in the industry, only buyers and planners get credit for achievements, moving up is a joke--you can only go through the Executive Trainee program which takes ~15 people once a year. The work is completely boring and mindless for entry-level employees.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 5, 2026
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Pros

I loved my job. I’m met so many wonderful people. And the associates couldn’t have been better.

Cons

I hurt myself and had to have surgery, and I was on Worker’s Comp. with limited availability. Because hours were short in operations, they made up this crazy position and wanted me to be ”lead” of the markdown team. I knew that meant for the most part to do go backs. I told them I wasn’t allowed to be on my feet that long and so she said they couldn’t accommodate me and I had to leave. And then the manager had the nerve to call their workers comp and told them I wasn’t coming into work. The management at that time was horrible. But there was a time when I first started working there that to store manager, and the assistant manager were wonderful. We were all so sad they left, but it didn’t take this new manager that I was talking about any time at all to lose almost the entire store associates.

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