Awesome company values, similar problems like all other retail jobs - Sales Assistant Lush Employee Review

4.0
Sep 19, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The products you're selling are genuinely awesome, especially if you are into cruelty-free, vegan/vegetarian cosmetics. Company vision, ethics of the production process, aesthetics of the shops are also really cool.

Cons

Specifically related to Estonia: some of the customs of the Lush shops clash with Estonian culture. We were encouraged to do the hands-on demonstrations to customers, but anyone familiar with Northern-Europe type cultures know that this is a definite no-no for us. People do not feel comfortable touching strangers or even siting down next to them and having a face to face, sustained eye contact conversation. Might sound a bit over exaggerated but most customers shopping in Estonian are already quite shy when a worker approaches them to offer help, so one-on-one hands-on demonstrations are too much. While people may be a bit shy if you approach them to offer help, if you are friendly and not pushy then it is totally okey and they do very often come up to you later with genuine interest in recommendation and a lot of repeat customers actually do come back because we are very knowledgeable about our products and are great at helping pick out something for yourself or others (especially men who have no clue what to gift their partners and daughters 😜). Any other problems related to this shop in Tallinn Estonia and classic retails problems that are most commonly related to impolite customers (they exist in every country) or management who makes the workers life...not enjoyable.

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5.0
Dec 23, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great management Company cares about employees Employee discount Lenient

Cons

I’ve tried to think of some, and I don’t think I have any cons

1.0
May 25, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Discounts, we got 50% off of most items

Cons

Unhygienic, stressful, money hungry, fear monger. Unprofessional managers both as an employee and customer. Never experienced such low life conditions, manager brought in animal multiple times in store, and made staff clean its pee. Customers were floored, inexcusable and HR is unresponsive. The bathroom is disgusting, and inaccessible. I cannot imagine any one with a physical disability being able to use the restroom. It was so difficult to suck in your stomach, then trip on box after box. They BLOCK the fridge and made us put our food in our tiny lockers. Manager is too comfortable with the amount of time spent within the company to ever fear facing any consequences or repercussions. Even fired staff in the past for contacting HR for help.

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