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Sprouts Farmers Market

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Deceptive hiring practices especially for new stores. - Vitamin Clerk Sprouts Farmers Market Employee Review

1.0
Nov 19, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

It was wonderful to help customers find healthy products and it was great to work with like minded team members "Sprouties". The store is kept clean and fresh and the overall environment is good . Sandwiches for lunch break are the best.

Cons

For new stores, initially they hire too many and then force employees to quit. It appears that lower management is told to find ways to make employees miserable so they will quit when they no longer need as many employees, They mess with scheduling right from the start. Everyone was scheduled for 30+ hrs weekly even those who were hired to work only 10-15 hrs weekly. Then it changes to only 6-15 hrs weekly even for those told at hire they would be scheduled for over 30 hrs each week. If that does not qet you to quit they start changing the schedule on short notice without telling anyone. Then they write you up for not showing at the right time. It became a games of calling just before shirt and hope you did not miss and they would not allow copies of the schedule! When that is not enough they started with the daily product inventory and facing assignments. They set you up to fail by assigning more than is possible to finish in the shift time and again write you up. There is more but this is enought to tell. Too bad they (management) can not just be honest and let the employees know the job will be limited and after about 6 months they will expect to let several people go...Then people can plan and appreciate the time the spend working there.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Fast-paced environment with opportunities to build customer service skills. Coworkers on the floor were generally supportive and easy to work with.

Cons

Management style leans heavily toward micromanaging rather than trusting staff to do their jobs. There is a noticeable double standard in how rules are enforced - some employees are given latitude that others aren't, which creates a culture of favoritism rather than consistency. Head cashiers have a lot of influence over daily shifts, and that influence was often applied inconsistently - who got the better shifts, or treatment seemed to depend more on personal favoritism than performance. There's age-based differential treatment, which made the environment uncomfortable at times.

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