Pretty Good for Retail - SHOP SERVICE MANAGER REI Employee Review

3.0
Sep 12, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay and benefits are excellent for retail. Everyone is welcome no matter their race, religion, sexual orientation, or how they identify. It's a very forward thinking company.

Cons

Policies seem to change every five minutes and there is no clear plan of action. The policy seems to be to just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks.

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5.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

Fun time with fun employees

Cons

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3.0
Jun 20, 2026
Recommend
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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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