Managers do not reward stellar salespeople with more hours or raises. Garbage commission. - PT Sales Associate Sunglass Hut Employee Review

1.0
Oct 6, 2022
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Pros

Other salespeople are subpar at best, including quite a few store managers, coasting along so competition isn't an issue. Of course, the good ones know who they are.

Cons

Managers will not reward good salespeople with more hours and/or raises. It's no wonder there is a revolving door for actual sales talent and where the most agreeable and cliquey-collective types get to stay. The only reason Luxottica and by extension Ray-bans, Oakley, and all other in-house brands do well are because of the ridiculous, 1000% markups on the products. When your gross profit margin per unit of Ray-ban is 90%, you don't really need good salespeople. Commission is 1%. On a 200-300 dollar pair of Ray-bans, that's 2-3 dollars. I once sold 14 pairs of sunglasses in a single transaction, and my commission was like 25 bucks. It's criminal.

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5.0
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Pros

good pass time to earn money on the side

Cons

loads of online learning materials and lectures you need to consistently watch and do quizzes on

4.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Getting 1% of your sales commission every month + base play + bonuses depending on how well the store does adds up a lot. When I worked here, I was one of the best sellers in my district and my store was 14/21 in our district - which led to me making roughly $21-$23 an hour once you added everything up and divided by the amount of time that I worked. Stocking and pushing stuff to the floor is cartoonishly easy considering how small the sunglasses and that packaging actually is. AP is super easy because there's not that much ground to cover. The biggest thing is that this job basically lives and dies by how good of a seller you are and how much of a people person you are. 80% of this job is just about making sales and hitting company quotas and the other 20% is visual merchandising, operational management, making schedules, etc.

Cons

In my district, the district manager kept badgering us about our numbers and moving goal post for us even when we were off the clock and getting in touch with him was nearly impossible. They're also really nitpicky when it comes to how you allocate hours and how you schedule people - even when the store is already meeting company goals. There's also just a lot of straight up favoritism in upper upper management and a lot of nonsense decisions the DM just made because of "vibes" and nothing else. They pushed a lot of unrealistic goals for stores on super short notice and they came up with a lot of ideas that were just kinda trash - while forcing us to swallow it and to try to make it work.

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