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3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(680 total reviews)
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Mark Lardie

51% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Rack Room Shoes has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 680 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rack Room Shoes employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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680 reviews
2.0
Jan 14, 2017

Okay for starting job

Recommend
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Pros

Job is not bad for those starting their first job. Employee discount is great and they are flexible on working around for those still in school taking classes

Cons

The hourly pay is abysmal, all those long hours and the pay just doesn't cut it. You still get a raise but it's up to the regional manager to decide, NOT the store manager. So you can work hard and the regional manager can reject your plea for a pay raise. As working in retail, you're bound to encounter rude customers who destroy shoe aisles without question. Sometimes towards the end of closing time, there's always at least one family coming in like 5 minutes before closing to camp out and don't care if they're holding up the store. Biggest issue is Rack Room Rewards. Seriously? Nobody buys shoes that often for such a rewards program. Managers get on your case if can't sign up enough people for Rewards and they chew you out if you're loyalty is low. Ridiculous!

1.0
Jan 12, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Rack room is perfect for the employee that doesn’t want to grow their skills. If you want to get an IT job where they utilize technologies that are a decade old and they're happy about it, this is your place. When you start you'll meet employees that have been there forever and are still doing IT the same way they did when they started.

Cons

They actually condemn new ideas and processes. They call it “lone wolfing.” I personally saw two people leave because they were unable to implement ideas that were grand improvements over what they currently had in place.

4.0
Jun 23, 2014

Great benefits

Recommend
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Pros

As a store manager, I get lots of vacation time. I get a 40% discount on merchandise. I've been working with some of the same people for a long time, and it's become like a second family to me. The business meetings aren't too bad and I feel fairly comfortable that this job is secure and the company won't just up and close any time soon. For part-timers, you can start earning vacation time after a while, and we always try to be flexible with scheduling when possible. Many of the corporate people worked in stores themselves, so they do have an idea of what it is like because they had to "work their way up".

Cons

There's a LOT to deal with--messy, demanding customers, mystery shoppers who pull your attention away from customers who actually need assistance, CONSTANT remerchandising and repricing, random corporate visits that middle management freaks out over, and the pushing of rewards program. This is all to be expected for retail (doesn't make it any more tolerable), but Rack Room has awful pay compared to their competitors for the same job and duties.

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