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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
Oct 2, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay, great benefits (especially medical), friendly atmosphere (depending on your store though), easy retail job for veteran retail employees

Cons

They downplay how much of a warehouse job this can be, management can be pulled in different directions, upper management isn't always there for support, the company can be a little "old school" in their thinking habits

1.0
Sep 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Nice discount. Good way to build yourself a diverse library.

Cons

Cruel corporate culture. Employees are disposable at best. Compensation and annual raises are pathetic. I was discriminated against, management swept it under the rug and told me to keep quiet, and everything got worse from there.

3.0
Sep 5, 2018

Get in and Get out

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

First dibs at the amazing books and records that arrive daily, awesome co-workers

Cons

The customers bringing in books have insanely unrealistic expectations of what their items will be worth. In turn, at least half my job was explaining our policy and calming sellers down. Also you have to touch a lot of weird crap that shows up to the counter.

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