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Half Price Books reviews

3.7

70% would recommend to a friend

(718 total reviews)
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Sharon Anderson Wright

64% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Half Price Books has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 718 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Half Price Books employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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718 reviews
2.0
May 1, 2016

No incentive

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Pros

The environment , coworkers, and certain benefits. There is always something different everyday. You will learn about who we are as a company and what we do to keep our customers content with obtaining the things they love: books , music, and media.

Cons

Benefits have quickly eroded or are completely eliminated over the last few years. It's becoming too expensive to afford insurance on the pay we receive which doesn't match the rate of inflation or the cost of living. Management is a joke, all they care about now are online sales and think somehow that we are going to compete with Amazon. This is never going to happen.You will be singled out if you continually bring up concerns about problems.

3.0
Apr 29, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great health benefits. Paid vacation. Paid sick time. Quarterly bonuses when available. Employees can become like your second family. Easy enough job. Hard to get fired unless you really really try.

Cons

High turn over rate for my store. Management is not professional. Horrible training. Takes forever for them to give you a raise/a review if they even get to do one. Communication between managers is bad. Retail schedule that changes frequently. Incompetent employees. The manager has a track record of hiring bad employees. Doesn't take sexual harrassment seriously.

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