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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
1.0
Nov 18, 2010

Reader beware

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The business is located in a beautiful part of the country. Like all comapnies, it has some very nice people sprinkled around the various departments.

Cons

This comapny is the poster child for a disfunctional "family business". All the jokes made about family businesses apply to VCS; i.e. rude/iracible owner, out to lunch family members, they are in it for the money - not the love of the business, have only "yes men" as managers, micro-manage the smallest detail, all employees are taught they are to jump when the family sneezes and the owner is never wrong. The worst IT systems I have encountered in my catalog business career. Getting information you can use is quite hard and very time consuming. The middle managers do not stick up for their employees. It is every person for themselves. The hours can be crazy. Why live in such a beautiful place if you are not able to enjoy it. The company claims they have an appreciation/understanding of work/home life balance, that is a joke. They do not want anybody who will not conform to the companies rigid mold. If you are an intelligent, creative, free thinker; run in the opposite direction. The people that servive at VCS are the ones that just conform completely.

1.0
Dec 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I can't think of any

Cons

Poor pay, poor treatment of employees.. they send you home if call volume is low so even full time employees may not get 40 hours a week

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