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Academy Sports + Outdoors

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Decent part-time/high school student job but lackluster for anyone older/has a degree - Apparel Sales Associate Academy Sports + Outdoors Employee Review

3.0
May 14, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Employee discounts on merchandise were on par with what you'd expect from any retailer, camaraderie with fellow associates, abundant locations throughout the south

Cons

As stated in the headline, you don't go into retail for the professional stimulation, rewards, and to make a career. More often than not the work is tedious, monotonous, and if your colleagues are "seasoned" because they can't make it anywhere else, you can expect them to be generally disgruntled and get pissed when you don't do things their way. Employee turnover is generally high (at least in the store I worked in), and it wasn't helped by customers generally being rude to and obnoxious in front of associates.

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5.0
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Pros

Nice people to work with, customers are generally good people.

Cons

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1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The customers there were wonderful to talk to

Cons

Had to quit due to team leads aggressive attitude towards me. Also favoritism issues. I can tell they didn't like me since day 1. Today they came to me rudely about mistakes I made instead of doing it professionally. I haven't been there for long and I was still learning. I made a lot of improvements which I was really happy about, but was still learning. As much as I liked working there, the team lead was very rude/unprofessional towards me and it was so bad to the point I had to leave. The same team lead followed me outside and said "good" that I was leaving (in front of customers too). I was improving a lot in the position, I want to hear constructive criticism, but not like this. I was hoping to grow with the store and the company but unfortunately its not meant to be. This could've been 100% been prevented if only they would came to me professionally about this and I would be more than happy to fix any mistakes and do better in the future. But if this is how they treat their coworkers I do not wish to be a part of that toxic culture and headspace. Do better.

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