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The Container Store

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The Container Store reviews

3.2

43% would recommend to a friend

(1,960 total reviews)

Joel Bines

46% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

The Container Store has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,960 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Container Store 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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2K reviews
1.0
Aug 30, 2016

Can it possibly get any worse?

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many wonderful co-workers, who truly love the store and the customers.

Cons

The employees are now, and have been for a while, a beaten down group of frustrated workers. The current level of staffing is beyond ridiculous. How much more can we take of angry customers, long lines at the registers, and truck shipments not on the shelves (still in boxes) ONE WEEK after hitting the stock room. Or those boxes are on the floor, which we all step over because no one is scheduled to process them.

2.0
Mar 14, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay, and some really great people to work with on occasion.

Cons

Passing the buck from CEOs, and corporate ideas that have fallen flat. We didn't need this expensive new line of TCS Closets to continue our "Closet Domination" Innovations with the Elfa Product would have been fine. 18" Decor shelves instead of TCS Closets would have made us. This is just Furniture for Living all over again, but worse because we cant' design TCS Closets in the stores. Has to be some contractual thing because this just doesn't make sense not to have our people design. What were you thinking?

2.0
Mar 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1/ good employee discount 2/ have made some great friends while working here 3/ my job here has forced me to go out of my comfort zone, which is a good thing

Cons

Where To Begin? OK, i know, lets start off with #1 1/ The Container Store just made Fortune Magazines Best places to Work List, for 17 years in a row. How ironic that that announcement was last week AND NOW, since business is so bad they are putting a freeze on pay increases and NOT contributing to our 401k's. Disgraceful that they do this right after the Fortune announcement. 2/ since going public this job has slowly declined 3/ too much micro managing 4/ Management always says PUSH PUSH PUSH for sales, as if I can get blood from a stone, while the full timers sit in the break room all day answering bloody emails? 5/ full timers are treated higher then part timers while some part timers know way more then full timers. A different set of Rules 6/ poor moral 7/ always doom and gloom, never enough praise 8/ its hard to sell TCS closets at $10,000 a pop more or less with all of the above going on

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