David's Bridal reviews

The retail sales job is pitched as a commissioned sales position, but it is rigged. The last-minute scheduling practice allows management to manipulate the commission structure to ultimately short change their employees: Salespeople had to average a certain dollar amount per hour during the pay period to make commission. So a salesperson on track to make commission would get called in on a slow day to bring their hourly sales average down, allowing the company to weasel out of paying that employee any commission. Sniping went totally unreprimanded, creating a culture of ill-will and distrust among coworkers. The bridal gowns were nice but the bridesmaid dresses were poor quality and suffered many broken zippers, tears, etc. Not much was invested in visual merchandising of the store - the jewelry seemed cheap, flimsy, random mismatched stock, etc. The computer systems were from probably 1980 and very complicated to learn.

If your store doesn't watch the team, employee competition can become a problem. You have to work against base pay, so if you're there for 6 hours but only sell $1,000 worth of product against a slow week, it lowers your paycheck versus helping it. Also if you close and your manager is OCD about store appearance, you'll have another hour grantee counting against you every night that you close.