Great customer service training - Sales Associate Nordstrom Employee Review

5.0
Aug 21, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best reasons to work at Nordstrom is the customer service training. The training focused on the customer and their experience in Nordstrom. When they leave they remember you, you connect with them, you thank them in writing, you connect with them for future sales and designers they like. You become their personal shopper. They encourage rapport with the customer, follow through and follow up.

Cons

The returns, they affect your pay enormously. They can be out of your control 90% of the time and devesating to your income. It is their reputation of accepting returns and they can affect your pay up until 1 year of the purchase. This for me was difficult.

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5.0
Jul 7, 2026
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Pros

Very consistent and helpful training and fun work environment and good operations and machinery

Cons

Management can vary depending on location and tips are probably less due to employee clientele

2.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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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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