Great Company--careful with the management - Sales Associate James Avery Employee Review

3.0
Jun 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great company, great product! Decent pay--yearly raises and bonuses, Great discount. Easy retail. Almost always leave within 5 minutes of close. GREAT customers!! Some customers become more like great family-friends, than customers. With the right management, coworkers feel like a tight-knit team or a family.

Cons

Terrible scheduling--comes a week in advance, no consistency in hours, must work at least one weekend day--often both, even though management only works one. No grace if you have another job. I had to quit because I wasn't getting the time off I needed for my other job--which has very little demand. Some managers can be micro-managers with no concern for the other employees. When I first started I loved the job, but management changed and so did the family-like atmosphere. No longer treated like a person--policy became like a set of instructions for the manager to use against the employee. "Every employee should be treated the same, whether they are a new employee or has been here for 10 years." Ask other employees about the management--it varies from store to store, so some stores are probably GREAT to work for. The company has a whole is awesome!

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5.0
May 28, 2026
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Pros

Supportive manager, no sales goal, focus on customer service, nice discount for employees

Cons

It’s still an hourly retail job which means random work hours and working on weekends

1.0
Jul 15, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It can be decent pay

Cons

Other than getting a pay check I can't think of anything here that is a Pro. Lousy culture, lousy people, management sucks, benefits suck, the Avery family is hoity toity.

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