Anchor Blue Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Anchor Blue part-time for more than a year

Pros – All employees were very friendly and welcoming. Management was the same. I enjoyed going to work every day. Management recognized a job well done and rewarded accordingly.

Cons – Having to try on all of the jeans (including mens) was not fun.

Advice to Senior Management – Thank you! Great experience.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Anchor Blue

Pros – Had good product shipped to outlet stores when things were good financially.

Cons – Levi's product shipped to outlet stores was mostly damaged, stained, or worse and they expected customers to pay close to regular retail value for those products.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Anchor Blue

Pros – Allows and rewards creativity and new ways of doings things. Company has lots of history (Miller's Outpost) and plenty of respect for it's past.
Employees are respected, leaders are the first to admit mistakes and learn from them. Fun culture in stores and home office.

Cons – Economic downturn crippled the company at a key turning point.
Pay not very competitive.

Advice to Senior Management – CEO (Tom Sands) is one of the most inspirational, forward thinking, creative, and personable leaders I have ever met. Unfortunately, some of the people he brought in from his former companies lacked most if not all of these qualities. His "right hands" did not behave in ways that were consistent with the culture he built. I don't think he was able to see that.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Anchor Blue

Pros – The people that work for this company are amazing, everyone works well with each other. Employees are like a family.

Cons – benefit package used to be better.

Former Employee – worked at Anchor Blue

Pros – Awesome co-workers
Nice customers
Good Discount (40 percent)
Assistant manager was pretty cool
The hours and days I requested were usually the hours and days I got

Cons – District manager was a thorn in the store's side
No opportunity to promote upward, left after three years for assistant manager at another chain

Advice to Senior Management – Start promoting from within. I busted my butt in TWO locations (a NorCal location before transferring to Valencia) and worked at those stores for over three years combined, never once did I nor anyone else working at the store get promoted.

Former Employee – worked at Anchor Blue

Pros – A very relaxed environment.
People are always willing to help you.
Relaxed dress code.
Good hours.
A good employee discount.

Cons – Sometimes upper management don't help you when you ask them.
Inferiority & superiority.
The people who already work there think they're better than you and treat you like crap.

Advice to Senior Management – More upper management help.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Anchor Blue

Pros – Excellent work/life balance.
Very good people in the field.
Comfortable work environment.

Cons – Poor decisions by senior management.
Target customer was ill-defined, and initiatives were rolled out with very little communication to support them.
Compensation seemed below industry standards.
Little regard for those below store manager.

Advice to Senior Management – Pick a customer, and try to sell to that person.
Do more to include your staff in new initiatives.

Former Employee – worked at Anchor Blue

Pros – Nice Enviornment, Decent Pay for Sales Associates (Based on Expierence), Taking Time off wasn't a big issue, Frequent staff meetings to keep employees up to date with changes.

Cons – Management feel superior to associates, Lack of decent Communication between staff, No warnings before being laid off, Seasonals- If they tell you they will keep you if you do well- Their lying! When i came in for the interview, they told me that the few seasonals hired will be tranferred to part time depending on work performance, yet around the end of December, without warning, I get a phone call saying there is a "meeting" at the store.. I go in and come to find out, there is no meeting! I've been fired. (My job performance was superior by the way!) It just so happens that ALL seasonals were laid off!

Advice to Senior Management – Better staff. Stop giving seasonals hope for part time, knowing they will be laid off!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Anchor Blue

Pros – It would have to be the people that are in the company. In addition the relationships between stores is great. Also the company has all the latest technology. For the most part the DSM's let store management do their jobs. Also the product was great, and of a high quaility.

Cons – The lack of advancement opportunities. Also there was a real problem with un-clear expectations. Also the pay was not up to the industry standard. This would have to be my biggest complaint. Assistant managers were only paid on aveage between 10-12 dollars per hour. The average store manager was paid in the 14.50-20 dollar per hour range.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a strong promotion plan in place so that hard working employees can move up through the ranks.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Anchor Blue

Pros – Good pay, flexible, easy, good people, customer service program was nice, no secret shops, ability to run store the way you think is best.

Cons – The worst upper management in retail history, no integrity, people getting promotions they were not qualified for, no pressure or incentive to do well.

Advice to Senior Management – Have standards, hold people accountable for results, hire the right people, show some leadership in upper management, be consistent, look at what successful companies do.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend