Unsatisfied Ex-Nordstrom Employee - Sales Associate Nordstrom Employee Review

2.0
Aug 29, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Interaction with customers - I loved helping and developing relationships with customers * You can move up depending on your relationship with your Manager NOT performance

Cons

* RETURNS - returns are the worse thing in the world - you can start your shift with your sales being negative due to the fact that Nordstrom takes back EVERYTHING! Nordstrom is just a retail rental job, customers will wear items and then return them and it affects YOUR paycheck. It's very discouraging. * The only people making great paychecks are the employees who have been working there for years * Promoting unqualified employees in Management * Your sales are posted every day for everyone to see - which means other employees can calculate your paycheck * Department Managers receive perks based on employee sales - There are several contests for employee sales. For example, if an employee sold the most of a product - that employee received $200 gift cert to Nordstrom while the Department Manager receives an IPad. It's really tough to see when your manager is horrible to you.

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Cons

The company has changed for the worse since COVID. When I came back the mood of the entire store had shifted. Gone were the days of comradery, customer focus, and taking pride in a job well done. In its place there is a new culture of cutthroat sales, a severe decline in customer focus, and worst of all a new focus on profit over customer satisfaction. When I was told that the amount the store charged for a shoe shine was not enough to do the best job I could for a customer I knew things had gone downhill for the company. Not to mention I watch a manager prey on a mentally disabled person in order to secure a sale, when the person could not understand what was being offered. Sad that such a once great company is now just another greed ridden corporation.

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