good place to start with retail - Anonymous employee Kohl's Employee Review

4.0
Feb 21, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

relatively good work-life balance and training. good place to start off if you need retail experience/working your first job

Cons

no cons, really. however, if you are a student/someone w additional responsibilities you may be expected to work long hours in holiday seasons

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5.0
Mar 31, 2026
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Pros

Kohl's is a place for learning and development.

Cons

The only con is being in office 4 days per week

1.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Pay is very good once you start getting raises. Weekly pay

Cons

Genuinely everything else, the pay is that high because they have to pay you over 25 just to put up with the awful environment. terrible structure, terrible management, no accountability, cliquey mean girl environment. managers are allowed to sit around and do essentially nothing while supervisors carry 100% of the load and there is no checks and balances to ensure management does the right thing. Corporate and HR genuinely don't care if certain people sit on their butt While others keep the business running. Credit card pushing is absolutely Off the Wall insane. Getting enough credit cards is all the company cares about and managers do not help. Managers are allowed to have no history with getting any credit cards at all and corporate doesn't bat an eye. If you try to speak out about anything that's going on you'll just get fired. Retaliation is allowed and encouraged.

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