Barnes & Noble Reviews

Pros

The community manager role is important to smaller cities and rural areas. I believe Barnes and Noble provide niche market services with the community manager role. My schedule was flexible (mostly because my store manager allowed me to come and go as I pleased). In-store coworkers were friendly and fun. Conversing with the community, local schools, and non-profits was engaging and enjoyable.

Cons

Horrible management decisions from the top down. Barely spoke to my "district" development leader (3 states away). No understanding of "relationship sales" mentality throughout the entire organization, only focus on retail. The entire company has no idea what their key differentiator and is slowly losing more business and revenue to competitors like Amazon because they are too stubborn to recognize this. Building up the community business team and a community presence is the only thing that will save this company and they are moving in the opposite direction because that's what they think technology is pushing for. The operations of this business are atrocious, delayed orders, rude internal service teams, and constant incorrect inventory supplies bogged down my daily job and ate up valuable sales development time.

Pros

Flexible scheduling, good management team, and lots of tasks to do throughout the day.

Cons

I don’t really have much to say as cons? I’ve been with my store since spring 2019 and haven’t had any major issues

Pros

As a part-time gig it's great, fun people, super friendly, and since you're working in the cafe, you get to make and serve some pretty flavored cool drinks that you can invent. The real magic are your fellow co-workers, all of them have great sense of humors, and are always there to help and support you.

Cons

The obvious cons however are the work loads, it can get overwhelming and you may be alone for a chuck of it. To be fair; a number booksellers have been cross trained to support you in case it gets too hectic, but there will be times where your ability to work under pressure will be put to the test. (Here's some tips: keep a sense of humor, breathe, communication is key, and start the process of closing and cleaning a few hours early before you close, that way you can compensate for the "Last Minute Shoppers," so you can complete your tasks and leave at a reasonable time.)

Pros

books, people, location, discounts at other stores in the shopping center.

Cons

changes from management structure, overnight shifts.

Pros

It was a great job. It was calming the majority of the time. I loved my coworkers, I loved our older customers and the discount both on the bookfloor and in cafe. Outside of my current business, I've never worked a better job.

Cons

We had LOT of Karens come in and sometimes it felt like corporate was moving purposelessly. I work in marketing full time and I could not for the life of me figure out some of their moves. The pay was also really bad which is why I had to quit. I rarely saw a paycheck over $200 and eventually, it wasn't worth my time. I really wish I could have stayed though.