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Roses Discount Stores reviews

2.6

30% would recommend to a friend

(401 total reviews)

Wilson Sawyer

40% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Roses Discount Stores has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 401 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Roses Discount Stores employee rating is 26% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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401 reviews
1.0
Jan 15, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Merchandise is cheap. So cheap that it will be returned tomorrow. Very little quality merchandise. A lot of refurbished goods, that are of poor quality. Absolutely the worst customers in retail.

Cons

Low Pay. Worthless benefits package to managers and employees. No employee discount. Long tenured associates making a bit over minimum wage. Open on the holidays. The customers-ugh, the worst. I have never seen so much merchandise stolen in a store in 25 years of retail experience. Loss prevention focuses mainly on the employee theft, when the bulk of it is the customers. Fixtures that came over on the Ark, quite literally. Pay is so low, that finding competent assistants and associates is impossible, so its high turnover. You can make your sales-but watch that management fee at the bottom of your P&L-which takes all your bottomline profit and whisks it into the Pope family coffers. Payroll hours too small to effectively run a store. Recent management turnover gave associates a Dash for the Cash initiative, which gave a 1o to 20 dollar taxed bonus-blanket bonus to associates, whereupon you have unworthy associates getting a bonus they didn't deserve, and store managers walk away with nothing. High Shrink environment-you will soon learn that you have to "fix" your markdowns to make your numbers. This is a money hungry company that targets low income and minority customers, and exploits them. For a company that did 865 million in sales last year, its hard to believe the huge profit all goes into one mans pocket, who turns around and donates that cash to the Republican party.

1.0
Jul 10, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If working 70 hours a week for minimal pay and being expected to keep an under payed and under valued staff is your idea of a career then this is the place for you.

Cons

Long hours, no payroll dollars, no support from upper management, terrible inventory control, lack of asset protection...the list goes on and on. It's like working at a flea market or the biggest dollar store you can imagine. A total disaster.

1.0
Jun 12, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Literally none. Don't work here.

Cons

Extremely low pay - less than $7.75 for assistant store managers to start! They have such a problem with turnover and theft and then wonder why. Many stores are in bad neighborhoods. The merchandise is mostly cheap and low quality, and the return policy isn't clear so you have to let every single customer know the return policy of just about everything they buy. Not worth it at all.

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