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The Container Store

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No longer a great place to work - Sales and Visual Sales The Container Store Employee Review

1.0
Jan 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits and pay are good for retail. But there are better ones out there, in a better environment.

Cons

Some of the long term employees and rude and confrontational, probably out of insecurity, punishing schedules (all night, anyone?). There is a lot of propaganda about the culture that is not true. Can be cutthroat. Training consists of throwing you out there, letting you make mistakes, and then correcting you. Relentless sales pressure. Management sometimes disappears as things go wrong. Impersonal. Very physical, with hours that can start at 5:00 a.m. and go to midnight. A fair number of injured employees from making people move faster and faster as they climb ladders. Very demanding. Manipulation of customers is encouraged. A lot of shrill cheerleading. I do think that going public has damaged them.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

Friendly environment, prioritizes staff safety, and offers several benefits.

Cons

Various online training and creating various accounts just to use one main one.

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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