OK place to start a management career if you don't mind sacrificing a normal life - Sales Team Manager Belk Employee Review

3.0
May 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-Opportunity to meet a lot of people in the local community -Belk gives back to their local communities through Semi-Annual Charity Sale -Decent associate discount (though it was better with Parisian) but extra associate discounts during certain times of the year

Cons

-No real opportunity to have a healthy work/life balance unless you're a Store Manager or Regional VP -Sales Managers are expected to work extremely long hours, missing time with family and friends, for salaries which, on average, are less than those earned working similar positions for its competitors. Though STMs do the grunt work in the store to ensure the profitability of the stores, only Assistant Store Managers and Store Managers qualify for annual bonuses based on the success(es) of those efforts and countless hours spent working

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5.0
Apr 12, 2026
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Pros

Great people and culture. Very inclusive. Goal oriented.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 5, 2026
Recommend
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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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