Nordstrom is great, but smaller stores suck - Sales Associate Nordstrom Employee Review

3.0
Nov 9, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Recognition for working for a company with a great reputation, ability to move up within the company, easy transfers from store to store, as a corporation the company is doing quite well

Cons

If you work at a small store, you are overworked and underpaid because of the lack of sales, if you are in a smaller store- managers are at that store for a reason... they weren't good enough for the bigger stores and it shows, pressure to donate to nordstrom picked charities, little work life balance

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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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