Arcadia Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Arcadia full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great discounts in the high street

Cons – Very competitive can be difficult to progress

Current Employee – been working at Arcadia

Pros – good training and development available

Cons – Boring, too much pressure on selling the credit card

Current Employee – been working at Arcadia

Pros – Big company, it's not likely to go bust

Cons – as it's a big company, they aren't concerned about keeping their staff

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

Former Employee – worked at Arcadia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – exposure, experiences, pride, exciting, included, honor

Cons – money, expectation on staff, lack of progression, repetitive

Advice to Senior Management – look after your staff and reward them.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Arcadia full-time

Pros – OK Salary but no real increase in current climate
Store discount
Flexible reward package for high grade giving you the choice of benefits

Cons – Politics between competing brands within the group.
Systems are dated in look and feel
Pressure to keep costs down effects overall performance

Advice to Senior Management – Look at bringing systems upto date, particularly in Creative Suite as this could prevent recruiting talented people.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – The 25% discount across all arcaidia brands
The opportunity to double discount on special mega event days
The ability to control your own learning for promotions
Incentives for exceeding targets

Cons – The uniform allowance is really low and unfair for those who work less than 30 hours, consideiring it's meant to cover a 3 month period.
Managers take their time to sign you off to a higher position, but give you duties to preform which are not in your job description :-/
Managers from different stores do different things... can be confusing when covering or doing overtime in different stores.

Advice to Senior Management – Talk to staff on their level, not in a belittling way. Encourage staff to progress through the rans if they wish and sign them off in time.

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

Current Employee – been working at Arcadia

Pros – relaxed atmosphere, opportunity to work in different areas of the business

Cons – companesation on the low side

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Arcadia

Pros – Well known company that has many opportunities across the 7 brands. Big learning curve and many opportunities across different sized stores.

Cons – Relatively low pay, as per any retail career weekends are a norm. Payroll is run really tight so resources to deliver high service and relaxed/fair management scheduling do not happen.

Advice to Senior Management – Simplify simplify simplify store goals and targets - too many. You will be able to deliver higher customer service and visual standards with more payroll.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Arcadia

Pros – Excellent training and development. Clear and concise job expectations.
A very well run company. Brill to work for!!! A range of brands to cover all fashion markets.

Cons – Hard to find negatives for Arcadia except that benefits are not wat they were pre recession. lower start of pay etc etc but I guess it's to be expected. Sir Phillip has to keep an eye on his profit.

Advice to Senior Management – Perhaps look for more feedback on operations, area managers, regional controllers, stock package etc from top store managers and deputies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend