tough job - Sales Associate Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Jul 8, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

compensation is good(straight commission) if you are extremely competitive and motivated. You have to build your customer base with people that do not always want to stay loyal to you. Nice merchandise, beautiful stores, good discount if you shop the sale racks

Cons

may lose health insurance if you are not scheduled enough hours. managers do not communicate what is going on in store...you have to try to find out yourself management favors certain people, gives them best hours and promotions people laid off with no notice

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Pros

Decent base pay, somewhat autonomous, great tip potential.

Cons

The company has changed for the worse since COVID. When I came back the mood of the entire store had shifted. Gone were the days of comradery, customer focus, and taking pride in a job well done. In its place there is a new culture of cutthroat sales, a severe decline in customer focus, and worst of all a new focus on profit over customer satisfaction. When I was told that the amount the store charged for a shoe shine was not enough to do the best job I could for a customer I knew things had gone downhill for the company. Not to mention I watch a manager prey on a mentally disabled person in order to secure a sale, when the person could not understand what was being offered. Sad that such a once great company is now just another greed ridden corporation.

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