Was fun while I was there but wouldn't work there again - Front End Cashier REI Employee Review

3.0
Sep 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Pretty flexible schedule if you need to ask for time off, prodeals and discounts, good benefits, fun work atmosphere, good for a temporary amount of time.

Cons

The pay was not great, especially for how expensive Bend is to live (I was there 2021-2022). Also REI as a whole I don't think they are as ethical as they make themselves out to be.

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5.0
Jun 21, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Open and nice to work for

Cons

Didn’t like that you won’t be able to take time off during sales and so people call out

3.0
Jun 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Excellent coworkers - REI does a great job of hiring enthusiastic and personable staff - Slightly better pay compared with other retail in the area - Prodeals and discounts - Flexible hours - Good (although rapidly diminishing) healthcare benefits

Cons

- Once a (better) company known for its investment in knowledgeable and friendly staff via extensive training and investment, the company has been slowly slashing away at most of what makes it special since the pandemic - Hours and benefits are worsening, proper employee training is becoming hard to come by - lots of mediocrity and sometimes questionable ethical calls made by management - Punitive disciplinary policies that seem to be designed to create higher turnover (advantageous to them given the gradual pay, benefit and policy changes)

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