Would Avoid If You Can - Associate Merchant Chico's FAS Employee Review

2.0
Oct 23, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Car wash, gym, 3 cafes on campus, personal shipping, company store, and a new coffee bar on campus. New apparel President is good - excited to see what she will do.

Cons

CEO has a stick up her butt - thinks Chico’s is a luxury brand. Spoiler alert: it’s not. She’s not in touch with our customer. Constant threat of going private. Overwhelming workload and high turnover. In the four years I’ve been here, a buy cycle has not been completed without some sort of overhaul and change. Meetings about meetings. Very little work time. Condescending coworkers. Backwards way of merchandising and marketing approach. People would rather play the blame game than aid each other in fixing the brand. Every quarter we are rebranding ourselves. Every year we bring in an outside consultant group to tell us what’s wrong, then we ignore the results. No opportunities to move upwards. This place will be the death of your career.

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