Not the great store it once was - Sales Belk Employee Review

2.0
Nov 23, 2021
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Pros

Discount. Easy to get hired.

Cons

Not very employee friendly anymore.. it use to be that at any given store you could always find a lot of "old timers" people who had been working there for 10, 20, 30 years. Sadly, that is no more. They cut out all the great culture and features, cool career advancement opportunites scaling a once family owned GEM with incredible buyers filling the stores with great inventory down to an unrecognizable, unimpressive, unenjoyable store and experience for customers and employees. Its like shopping at walmart now. They got rid of the entire company fashion merchandizing departments as well which is depressingly evident in all n the stores now. The once beautiful Belk stores with all the gorgeous departmental merchandise displays are a thing of the past. Now they loook exactly like a khols or jcpenny. They offer bonuses to managment for keeping under budget so they cut cost by running skeleton crews that comletely overwhelm the employees that are now expecred to handle customers for 2 or 3 departments in additiom to their own. Of course this angers customers because they cant get any service, find people to help them or check them out. Why bother go?

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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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