Boscov's Reviews

Pros

Good group of people to work with

Cons

Boscov's typically choose the most inexpensive way of doing things even if it costs more in the long run.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep Albert running the company for as long as possible.

Pros

Boscov's is a company that wants to gain the loyalty of their customers. You don't require to have high creditals and the training class is a breeze as long as you can keep up with learning new things. The coworkers will help you learn about your department(s) Friendly environment to work in.

Cons

Their pay is minimal and there isnt room for advancement. Coworkers must open a certain amount of charges within a time frame. The customer is almost ALWAYS right (or ends up getting their way)

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the coworker more than the customer.

Pros

Not many strict corporate directives to follow, can be creative with merchandising and visual displays. Nice people to work with, however many are unhappy.

Cons

Customers are misserable and rude which makes the employees unhappy. Management is very unprofessional and only promote "the favorites." They do not give qualified people room to grow, even if they have past experience. Overall, must be a suck up to get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

Please give more hours to the sales and visual teams. The store needs more hours in order to maintain a good looking store. Often customer cannot find a sales person in the department to service them.

Pros

Introduction to Retail.
Good for seasonal employment.
Learn as much or little as you desire.

Cons

Just about minimum wage.
Many, many disgruntled employees.
Can be too much drama at times.(depends on employees and, employer)
Do I have a future there? Yes and no.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen with open mind to your employees. You know the ones.

Pros

They are not very strict with attendance, or being on time. Pretty relaxed atmosphere. Low employee turnover. One week salary christmas bonus

Cons

They are always late with schedule release- sometimes on Friday I dont know the schedule for Sunday. Inpossible to plan anything around that

Advice to Senior Management

The company is too relaxed, my manager would come in to work whenever she feels like it. And never worked on the floor, not even during holidays. Oh wait, she always scheduled herself off for all holidays.

Pros

Reasonable hours (as long as you are a good worker); some departments have commissioned merchandise (even if they are not a commissioned department); in some departments, you may have an opportunity to do a little bit of everything; employees get a discount on merchandise

Cons

Focus on opening new customer charges can be a bit unrealistic and out-of-touch with the current state of the economy; if your managers are unfair, don't put too much faith in getting consistent hours or receiving stated employee benefits

Advice to Senior Management

Take complaints about store management seriously- is your store doing well because your workers are willing to knock themselves out for a great management team, or does something else motivate your workers?

Pros

easy and people are nice

Cons

pay is low, especially for employers who have been there for multiple years

Advice to Senior Management

treat your long time employees better

Pros

I am working and I am glad about that. The over all environment of the store is all right. I am not planning on staying in retail for the rest of my life.

Cons

The hours are long, sometimes working a nine hour shift several times a week, closing and then going in early the next morning, not fair scheduling, The breaks are not really breaks just going to the restroom when its possible sometimes waiting several hours to go, not fun. Some of the associates get away with things that most would not, like going for a smoke every half hour or so and not returning to the floor for an hour of more, they just dissapear. The lunch is half hour,not enough time to go for food and then you have to stuff it down in minutes, I hate that, then your miserable the rest of the shift. Some of the coworkers are not friendly at all, won't even make eye contact, the department managers rarely are on the floor, and when you need help, there is no one available, you have to call all over the place, which is ridiculous. The training stinks, you are pretty much on your own after 3 days of training. So in conclusion , I have more to gripe about but its not worth my time, take this for what it's worth, the company is just ok in my view, it needs to revamp the internal workings, I have heard many associates complaining about things in the store, in my opinion things need to change and quickly.

Advice to Senior Management

The management need to be more involved, must be available when needed, and they need to listen to their associates, not hide some place in the store and read magazines or watch TV or smoke a dozen cigarettes, yes they actually do this, I have seen this for myself, I was really surprised by this action, and who makes the big bucks for not doing the job.

Pros

There are really great sales - you want to spend your paycheck there! (Which may not be so good, hah) Everybody is really friendly and most department managers will work with your schedule if you're going to school, etc.

Cons

The insurance keeps increasing and the co-pay for doctor visits are $30! The pay is really low for the amount of work they want you to do. It almost feels like it's not worth it. I've heard that our store is more stressful to work in versus other locations.

Advice to Senior Management

Praise your employee's and don't make them feel worthless! We are the ones out there helping customers and making the sales.

Pros

Good level of training when we switched computer systems. Everyone was pretty nice with a few exceptions. Good rewards for signing people up for credit cards.

Cons

A lot of workplace gossip and cattyness, but it's the same for anywhere. Didn't really effect me very much

Advice to Senior Management

Don't pick favorites. Everyone is equal and should be given the same respect and no special treatment.