Kmart reviews

3.6

56% would recommend to a friend

(6,688 total reviews)

Edward S. Lampert

58% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Kmart has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 6,688 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kmart employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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7K reviews
3.0
Apr 16, 2017

Store Manager

Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work. Had a great staff and a great building. Had 29 good years with this company. Had a great assistant and floor supervisor.

Cons

Company is in financial difficulty and is struggling to stay in business. Kmart has had to make tough decisions over the last two years and will have a tough time staying in the black.

1.0
Apr 14, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best reasons to work at Kmart are the people you work along side. Some of them are truly wonderful.

Cons

The cons for this job were how broken the entire company is. It's broken from the leadership to the ground level. As a dying company unwilling to invest in its stores, in its employees and in its programs it sets each employee up for failure regardless of your passion, drive, work ethic, or effort. The stores are given budgets to run on that are impossible to work work. My particular store was often expected to run off of a complete store budget of $4-5k dollars a week. $3k of that went to the store manger. Sometimes leaving a budget that could only afford two cashiers for the day and a very skeleton floor staff. The store managers unfortunately are often relics from times when their assistant managers did everything for them. Now that most stores don't have that, they are left with store managers that never learned their own business and are just riding out the company's last days until the company goes under.

4.0
Apr 14, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Family enviorment Relationship with customers Volume of stores manageable

Cons

My store closed down communication from corporate They waste money on plans that aren't thought out before implementing

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