There are better places to work - Sunglass Hut - Sales Associate Sunglass Hut Employee Review

2.0
Jun 17, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

An opportunity to work around some amazing brands. Free pair of sunglasses up to $500 after your first year. Every now and then you get 50% off.

Cons

Standing for long periods of time. Management does not understand that you can't sell to every customer or that you can't catch every thief. The only person who really gets hours is the store manager, which makes it even harder to make goal. You only get commission when the entire store makes goal regardless if you met your personal goal or not. Commission dropped down to just 1% so there is no motivation to make goal because you have to sell $1000 just to see a measly $10. Raises come once a year and they are nothing to look forward to. My first raise was just 19 cents.

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5.0
May 12, 2026
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Pros

good pass time to earn money on the side

Cons

loads of online learning materials and lectures you need to consistently watch and do quizzes on

4.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Getting 1% of your sales commission every month + base play + bonuses depending on how well the store does adds up a lot. When I worked here, I was one of the best sellers in my district and my store was 14/21 in our district - which led to me making roughly $21-$23 an hour once you added everything up and divided by the amount of time that I worked. Stocking and pushing stuff to the floor is cartoonishly easy considering how small the sunglasses and that packaging actually is. AP is super easy because there's not that much ground to cover. The biggest thing is that this job basically lives and dies by how good of a seller you are and how much of a people person you are. 80% of this job is just about making sales and hitting company quotas and the other 20% is visual merchandising, operational management, making schedules, etc.

Cons

In my district, the district manager kept badgering us about our numbers and moving goal post for us even when we were off the clock and getting in touch with him was nearly impossible. They're also really nitpicky when it comes to how you allocate hours and how you schedule people - even when the store is already meeting company goals. There's also just a lot of straight up favoritism in upper upper management and a lot of nonsense decisions the DM just made because of "vibes" and nothing else. They pushed a lot of unrealistic goals for stores on super short notice and they came up with a lot of ideas that were just kinda trash - while forcing us to swallow it and to try to make it work.

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