For a retail employee - i.e. anyone below the level of Assistant Manager in the store
employee discount - is not taken off of the price the customer will pay, but the initial retail price. This means that 80% of the time the customer's price is lower. Considering the employee discount is the only benefit offered for part time employees, this won't get you much.
Employee incentive contests - good in theory but since store management is almost always eligible - and they work 40 hours a week - your odds go way down.
Corporate does not seem to listen to store level inventory suggestions - as a nationwide company they do not seem to stock stores according to the local market. We would end up with items we couldn't give away that a store 10 miles away would sell out of. And the store was constantly short of big sellers for our location.
Point of Sale system – both hardware and software system needs serious work. The software is not intuitive at all and several functions that were used on an hourly basis were buried 3 layers deep. The registers have major glitches and they wouldn’t replace things like non-functional scanners until the ”whole system/network gets the same replacement”. Not sure if this was an excuse for something else but it made some of the day to day much more difficult.
“Flexible” schedule – can be directly interpreted as erratic schedule. But this is pretty standard for retail.
