Store Manager - Store Manager Vans Employee Review

4.0
Dec 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

-Awesome, passionate people. -Really good discount and lots of free stuff. -They invest in employees so you will learn everything about running a store. -Get to wear a lot of hats so valuable experience doing lots of things. -Customer focused atmosphere so there is nothing you can't do to help people.

Cons

-If you want to go beyond the store level, it probably won't happen. There is more of an appearance of upward movement than there much evidence of it. -Never enough payroll to get things done unless you are comping like crazy. -SMs should expect to work over 50 hours a week regularly to meet store standards. -"What have you done lately" mentality.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Depending on District/Store great culture. Awesome discounts and bonus incentives for full time management. Relatively lenient on being able to use your discretion with difficult customers, "What Would Van Doren Do?" - basically make the customer happy reasonably. Great position to learn retail and people management in - applied itself to any career field later on.

Cons

Job Security (retail and working in malls in today's landscape can be tough depending on location). Corporate can be corporate sometimes, DMs or RMs pushing unreasonable and ridiculous selling behaviors sometimes.

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