Sears reviews

3.6

51% would recommend to a friend

(14,744 total reviews)
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Edward S. Lampert

52% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Sears has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 14,744 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sears 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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15K reviews
2.0
Oct 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

If you are a consultative sales associate and are on comission you will get good money especially during the holiday season.

Cons

Terrible management, store manager was extremely mean and never backed up the associates she would always give preference to customers even if they were being rude. The pressure they put you through is awful because they have so many metrics and every day you come in they tell you what you are doing wrong they never look at your good metrics. They had us use ipads to complete transactions and they never worked and if we used the registers more than the ipads they would be mad at you. Competition between associates could get bad because some would steal your sales. They push you to sell their credit cards and to enroll people on their rewards programs. Trust me when I say that they would not give you hours if you did not do your metrics.

4.0
Oct 1, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Direct access to upper echelons of corporate management. Autonomy over department and staffing. Ability to grow the business through community outreach. Excellent pay structure with incentives to grow the department as a whole, rather than growing individual sales. Excellent refreshment training. Timely information/training on new products and floorplans.

Cons

Other managers do not know how to handle you occasionally because you report to both the store and corporate teams. Lack of initial training, it took 3 months for me to understand the full scope of my duties and another 3 months for me to become proficient. Lack of communication between the store and corporate teams made for mixed messages and redone assignments. Job will get monotonous and there is very little room for advancement unless you are willing to take a massive cut in pay and work 15-20 hours more per week.

2.0
Sep 28, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people in every unit I managed were exceptional and the reason customers returned. All have pride in their store.

Cons

Entirely too much focus on badgering customers to buy in to a new members first culture. A few like the benefits of the shop your way program. Many others are not interested and may not return after the coached associates attempt to acquire email id's and credit applications. Then attempted new culture within the store is a nice idea however is very difficult to cascade onto $7.00 per hour, high turn over associates. This once great Co. Is in the fight of its life and sadly we remaining store leaders are faced with daily beat downs by DM's over daily metrics which will not be enough to make the stores profitable. Our competition is rich and have figured out to just treat customers in a friendly way, have quality goods at competitive prices and win. My Sears has moved into an existence of pushing daily manipulated service data which gives a false read on the current store reality.

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