The Source Reviews

I worked at The Source full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Potential to earn unlimited amounts of money with commission and spiffs
Benefits
Friendly Co-Workers and Store Managers
Good Hours

Cons – When Bell took over we lost many incentives with winning prizes
Very pushy Sales Tactics with Advantage Care Plans, Bell Sales, BRS, Cellphones ETC.
High turn over of District Managers
Very little stock to sell
Put alot of pressure for attachment rates, conversion, ACP %
NO ROOM FOR ADVANCEMENT - Other than possibly switching to a manger in another store, options are slim

Over Staffed at times which made sales very difficult and too competitive

Advice to Senior Management – More Stock to sell
Reduce percentage requirements to achievable levels
Bring back incentives - Wheel of Fortune Etc.
Less Staff = Less competition

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at The Source part-time for more than a year

Pros – -Good Commission on private brands
-Great place to learn about various electronics
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Cons – -Very hard to advance to any further position regardless of performance on job
-More about selling than customer service

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

I have been working at The Source full-time

Pros – Bell provides rewarding incentives
Great benefits and employee discounts in store as well as with Bell
Ability to move up with a lot of hard work
Highly focused on training/coaching

Cons – Not much work/life balance
Like most companies, the expectation is that you do more for less
High targets

I have been working at The Source full-time for less than a year

Pros – good for experience but less salary

Cons – too much sales pressure from ACP to UPT ...from Wireless to BRS

Advice to Senior Management – increase in salary

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at The Source part-time for less than a year

Pros – good people
small stores
commissions & spiffs.

Cons – lack of inventory
terrible organisation of products
not enough shelf space

Advice to Senior Management – give us more or atleast one of the each display/flyer product before you expect us to sell it.

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

I have been working at The Source full-time for less than a year

Pros – rewarding!! custmers are very friendly!

Cons – if your applying in spruce grove all i have to say is dont expect to be treated fairly!

Advice to Senior Management – take a good hard look at the manger of the source in spruce grove alberta

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

I have been working at The Source full-time for less than a year

Pros – Close interaction with customers
Small and friendly work environment
Advancement to management is very much possible
Store discounts!
Commission and spiffs

Cons – Work infrastructure can be disorganized
E-Training means training on your own time

Advice to Senior Management – When hiring new workers, add an additional sales associate to show how things are done and allow new workers to do e-training like how Starbucks does it. (SBX allows new workers to spend an entire shift doing courses)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at The Source full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Very high pay for a retail job (though this is only the case at very few of the stores nationwide)
-Get to play around with some interesting technology (latest phones/some neat gadgets)

Cons – Completely incompetent store manager in my experience, though my District Sales Manager is very knowledgeable in the few instances we get to meet with him. Having to outright lie to customers on a daily basis in order to keep up sales and various other requirements like email collection is quite dispiriting. It is not possible to maintain these figures while keeping the consumers interests a priority, regardless of what management tries to tell you. Most of the products in the store are completely junk, which makes it very difficult for me to recommend a solution.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire competent store managers that are actually familiar with technology. My manager can barely operate a cell phone, while simultaneously having to "help" customers with these devices on a daily basis. This results in a sales associate, often with another customer, having to take over. This hurts sales and frustrates customers who often end up walking out when it is busy. Not being able to get any reliable answers from management for questions regarding Cellular/Bell TV does not help either.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at The Source full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good xmas pay if you know how to sell

Cons – no room for growth management doesn't care about employees

Advice to Senior Management – help employees grow!!

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

I worked at The Source full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Events with vendors are always fun. There are multiple events and trainings in the year where you can win electronics.

Cons – Getting ideas to upper management is like moving mountains. Also, moving up in the company is extremely difficult. Once you become store manager, the only way to get a higher salary is to either have a massive increase in sales and get bonuses or move up the class of the store or to wait until there's a company shuffle and you get a bigger store.

Advice to Senior Management – Have a suggestion website where employees can login anonymously and post ideas - then give other employees the power to rate the ideas and have a division to implement them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend