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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
Nov 11, 2012

Rapidly going downhill

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent discount, bonuses (getting smaller every year), paid lunch hour

Cons

Promotes incompetent people into management positions. Changes employee schedules at a whim, stating store needs come first. Generally treating employees like they are disposable.

4.0
Mar 4, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

50% discount on most items in the store. It's a great place to work if you love books because you feel more like you are just hanging out with friends talking about things you love when in reality you are working and getting paid.

Cons

Customers who don't understand the basic idea of a for Profit company and expect to be paid more for their books than we will actually sell them for. Also the district level management seems utterly out of touch with reality in the stores. They need to spend drastically more time in the stores observing actual operations not shut in the back office making worthless and foundless accusations about the staff.

2.0
Dec 5, 2010

Half Price Books Experience

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Above all else I enjoyed the atmosphere of the store. The smell of old books and dust.

Cons

I was displeased with many interactions I had with other employees and especially customers who did not want to accept their buy quotes. However what really made the job unbearable was having to stand for so long. I have a bad back and the end of each day was excrutiating to the point that I could not take care of home life.

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