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The Container Store

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Lots of hype, not much else. BEWARE OF NEW STORE OPENINGS - Part-Time Sales/Visual The Container Store Employee Review

2.0
Aug 16, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great discount, fun store, cool products. Decent benefits even for part-time.

Cons

New store, enormous training but not on the right things. Too much corporate Kool-Aid then the store opens and everyone gets their hours cut. Apparently, they needed a lot of employees for the grand opening but that was it. Everyone had to "work" the opening party but we were not paid and we were supposed to feel happy that we were invited because we got free food. Weird shifts, no consistency in putting schedules out, some management was too new to know what was going on, and lots of pettiness and gossip from a few of the full-timers. Just hype to get folks to sign on to be "prime-time" which just means part-time. Corporate folks claim they have never had lay-offs but all they really do is cut the hours until people quit. Enormous push to have everyone sign up their email accounts.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone from director level on down in my department was great. Very collaborative. Gave you autonomy to do and try new things.

Cons

Where do I start…Sr. Leadership is TERRIBLE. I mean absolutely horrific. No direction and plans were changing at the drop of a dime after the BB&B “merger”. You could feel the shift in the culture, just NASTY attitudes and taking the employees for granted. The new CEO and the rest of Sr. level execs acted like everyone was just expendable workhorses. They touted reopening the headquarters cafe as some awesome benefit so they could bring people back to the office full time. If you’re going to be bullish and require everyone back, have some guts and just do it. But don’t act like a cafe is some life changing benefit to get everyone excited. Anyway, blind leading the blind. The merit increase or raises - non existent. No 401k match. Nothing positive because the company is so broke. The new store concept sounds a mess. Save yourself and don’t even apply, let alone accept an offer. Joel Bines is no longer the CEO. He was a great guy and I think he had great ideas. Marcus Lemonis is the new CEO and I would give him a thumbs down.

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