Not the worst place to work - Anonymous employee Specs Employee Review

3.0
May 19, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You learn a lot about whatever you are doing -cigars, spirits, beer, etc. You also work with some great people.

Cons

Upper management, beyond the district managers, doesn't really trust their sales people to think much. As such, there is a lot of information that would be useful in regard to product margins and things of that nature that you are not allowed to know. It's mostly "push this because we say so." Also, once you hit store manager, there is very, very little room for advancement, and advancing being assistant store manager may mean moving to a new store in the middle of nowhere.

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5.0
Oct 16, 2025
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Pros

understanding, fun and great place to work.

Cons

Communication needs work from corporate to store level employees.

2.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Laid back chill environment, awesome co workers and nice managers. Employee discount is nice but not great. Job isn’t too laborious and pretty easy if you have good work ethic

Cons

No raises, no proper training, no overtime, only 4 Saturdays a year off, no sitting even if it’s at a computer, flaky co workers who never show up or always call out, high turnover rate

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