Half Price Books reviews

- Mission starts with "be fair to customers and our employees" but the changes I saw while working there and what I continue to see contradict that. Employees have lost benefits even as the company opens more stores. Prices are gouged on some media with express direction from management to take advantage of low-info shoppers - Individual stores can have drama - Stores are getting boring and harder-to-browse and your coworkers may no longer be up to speed on books, media, etc. - Hard to advance - Individual store management varies, but corporate management is definitely profits-before-people

The staff acts like they're all still in high school with ridiculous drama. The pay is OK for entry, but the raises are ridiculously slow and hard to come by. People who have worked there for ages no longer care, and start petty fights to entertain themselves. The management claims to care about harassment, and will protect from customers doing so, but will not blink an eye when a coworker is doing so to another coworker. If you're remotely a hard worker, your coworkers will have it out for you, because they don't want to put in the work, and you're making them look bad, so they'll make your life at Half Price miserable.