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Pros
Great pay, Fun workplace environment, and internal promotions only meaning lots of opportunities to work your way up!
Cons
Working weekends and around holidays, but is expected in retail.
Pros
Great pay and opportunity to move forward
Cons
Can be Long hours, holidays, weekends.
Pros
Great coworkers, great learning opportunities, employee discount, and great esop benefits if granted
Cons
If you can't connect with customers, it can be difficult to get sales, manager tells endless dad jokes
Pros
Great opportunity for those who like competition and value personal growth. The mentorship I’ve received while working here has developed me more than in business.
Cons
It is retail. Must be willing to work evenings and weekends.
Pros
Great growth opportunity and family style work environment. Being employer owned is a huge bonus!
Cons
Stressful seasons throughout the year.
Pros
Great growth opportunity and family style work environment. Being employer owned is a huge bonus!
Cons
Stressful seasons throughout the year.
Pros
Engaging work Helping others Good Benefits Great Retirement through ESOP shares High career advancement opportunity Competitive environment
Cons
Working Holidays Slow seasons Mall hours (weekends)
Pros
- Good benefits - Friendly environment - Good career path - Good management
Cons
- Retail hours - Working holidays
Pros
Building a career for yourself with more than enough benefits to reap.
Cons
You have to work weekends.
Pros
As a manager you are in many ways a business owner who gets to craft his or her own success. From staffing to training and in many cases the products your store carries you have freedom to impact how successful you are. Some people may not like the hours we work, but when 70% of the nation hates their job it’s exciting to say I would truly rather work overtime for this organization than I would work part time at a job where I’m just a cog in the machine! Efforts we put in are what we get back! From manager’s bonuses to the company funded retirement and down to our give back initiatives that help benefit the less fortunate in our store’s local communities we truly are in the drivers seat and I’m proud to be a part of it every day! And for those with the interest & heart to pursue Tradehome’s management career it only gets better the longer you are there! In 2014 Tradehome became 100% employee owned and since 2021 they have become debt free, something which very, very, very few companies can claim after 103 years in business! What this means is wise leadership, great growth opportunities and wonderful compensation!
Cons
We are a performance based company and that is the key to why we have succeeded for over 100 years, yet sometimes this ultimately ignores a reality that certain markets are tougher than others, and sometimes makes it hard for all stores to meet all expectations. For example maybe certain stores are struggling to sell required products against a fellow market yet are having to put in more effort than them for unknown reasons. Or perhaps it means not getting the products we always need because we did do our job and sold out but then get told we “dropped off” on weeks when we were sold out of key sizes and struggled to meet the customers need. Or my least favorite you are making requests for items to meet your markets needs but you don’t “rank high enough” to have them so effectively are punished into not succeeding until you can manage with stock your store doesn’t thrive with. I was once there before I could grown my store to where it is now and it sometimes was a literal make or break! The ebb and flow of retail should never to confined to a constant expectation but instead handled with an aggregate review of year over year and judged based on growth! If store A. hit all metrics but takes a loss they get praised for hitting metrics yet if store B. didn’t hit metrics but fought to get wins and posts a gain they don’t really get praised for posting a gain but rather get judged for not meeting metric expectations even though they maybe fought harder for that win. That is my single biggest issue. However, there is no such thing as a perfect system, no two markets will ever be the same so understand this criticism is to be taken with a grain of salt because we do ultimately get better from it and Tradehome’s success shows it! And as managers we have to learn how to not take things personally, the aim is to be better so even if you post a massive gain, crush all the metrics, recruit the most people you will still be pushed to get better!