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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
4.0
Nov 15, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

benefits like insurance, sick pay, vacation paid, holidays paid, bonuses, hour paid lunch, flexible hours, and 50 percent discount on already half off merchandise.

Cons

politics in store, slowly becoming more coporate like, fast expandsion making training good employees hard.

2.0
Nov 11, 2012

Rapidly going downhill

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

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