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The Vermont Country Store

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The Vermont Country Store reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(60 total reviews)

Eliot Orton

75% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

The Vermont Country Store has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 60 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Vermont Country Store 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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60 reviews
3.0
Sep 24, 2015

Nice people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Genuinely nice people working at this company. If you're after friendly co-workers, you'll find them here.

Cons

Loud working environment, quotas can be a little bit unrealistic.

4.0
Oct 10, 2014

Great Place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Smaller company that cares about it's employees. Have been there for more than 3 years and have had ups and downs but over all it is a fun place to work. Supervisors are willing to listen (most of them anyway) and help work out schedules and help you keep a work/life balance. Also the Orton family is generous with the financial programs they have put in to place including bonuses and hardship help

Cons

Company values when I started there were high. It seems over the last couple of years things have been starting to change. One change that has a lot of people upset is becoming numbers instead of names. When we pack a package for a person we are proud and want that person to know who did this for them. But to save money we are going to use numbers. Another thing is activities seem to be coming a thing of the past. Employee sales used to be a big thing but they don't seem to be happening. Promotions are not forth coming if you are a person that speaks your mind, We are told to come forward with issues but when we do we are later told we are being "negative"

3.0
Oct 7, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to choose your shift. Employee sales/discount. Nice experience to chat with some of the older customers when it's slow enough to do so.

Cons

Supervisors aren't always the most helpful (depends on who you have). Frustrating that when it's slow your only option is to separate/tear return labels instead of being given a meaningful task. It's as if they don't trust you or don't think you can handle doing other work while waiting for that beep in your ear. For someone who has to stay busy like myself, that can become annoying. Some of the elderly customers are downright rude and will speak to you in a mean manner and you have to take it.

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