Total Wine & More Reviews

Pros

Great as a seasonal position, i.e summers and the holidays

Cons

theres no real cons, except spending a ton of time on your feet

Pros

The employees at the store level are great. You can receive really good discounts on wine and spirits.

Cons

The hours are ridiculous. Full time is fifty hours and you will do every minute of it. The company runs on a skeleton crew even though they are making record profits. The pay isn’t competitive at all and hasn’t adjusted for the cost of living. You are given very little training and expected to learn everything on the fly. You will be asked to do every job in the store. Bad employees never get let go unless there is theft but they can be negative, late, no shows and still have a job. The owners of this company do not appreciate the the work that the employees put into this company with very little motivation (other than not wanting to starve) to keep them. You are a number in this company.

Pros

You have to drug test for this company for delivery driver only but they don’t care about weed or alcohol. The online tips are shared but you get cash tips quite a bit…

Cons

It’s getting really busy and can be stressful — But it really doesn’t fall back onto you personally — I love my job — The pay could be better but it’s really not bad for what the requirements are They drug test you at first but in Colorado they don’t care about weed or alcohol — As long as it’s not during work hours— I get a free bottle every so often probably once or twice a month and It’s not a bad gig —-New location is getting quite busy… They also feed you on holidays and random special occasions it’s quite nice you also get discounts on a lot of items — Not a con — worth a try

Pros

- catered lunches during crazy weekends

Cons

- managers are often unavailable - cashiers are expected to not only check all customers out, but also take on the role of secretary and answer phone calls/questions - little room to grow, cashiers are all paid differently despite having the same job. it wasn't util I left that I realized I was paid 2 dollars less than my coworkers

Pros

Good people, great diversity, and lots and lots of education on wine spirits and beer. Also, free booze. Can't complain there.

Cons

Incredibly pushy with sales, no extra pay no matter if you met the quota or not (no incentive), managers and regional managers only treat you like another number to increase their monetary gain and not like an actual person.

Pros

The interview was easy enough

Cons

Management was on another level of terrible. They signed me on as full time and only gave me 5 hours a week. When hired, I was told I would be allowed a few days for vacation. When my vacation happened, they scheduled shifts and called me in a passive aggressive way asking where I was and 'if i even knew how to work my phone'. I was barely trained and left alone, and when I asked for direction, a manager told me they 'did not want to see' me right now. Overheard employees stereotyping other as well.

Pros

There were a lot of promises made, which if kept would have been great. But nothing was.

Cons

I suspect management was part of the problem in my store. We had a new store manager and she would not allow anyone to help her. I was supposed to be full time but was given 15 hours a week. We lost a ton of people and they put a hiring freeze, despite making over 100k+ in sales per day on a skeleton crew. There are supposed to be people for merchandising which is basically filling shelves, hunting down cases from the overhead, filling online orders etc. But since they didn't have enough people the sales team was expected to do their jobs, plus everything else on top - leaving no time for actually helping customers. You expect to lift a lot, but all day everyday is excessive. They will gladly work you to death, pay nothing, and they will either give you 50+ hours or no hours. They also expect you to push their Winery and Spirits Direct portfolios onto everyone that walks in the door. While some of it is good...a good portion of it is truly awful. AVOID this company!

Pros

Discounts, easy to get hours changed

Cons

Hard work for little pay

Pros

- learn a lot about wine and spirits - you get to sample a wide variety of products - excellent wine discounts - opportunity to work with people who are enthusiastic about wine and spirits

Cons

- hours are cut severely for all employees at certain times of the year - you are expected to be very pushy with customers - you will be frequently reprimanded for things outside of your control. - there are no commissions or rewards for hitting lofty sales goals. - some of the senior sales associates harass the newer employees aggressively. Management will rarely reprimand them for it.

Pros

Good employee discounts, a lot of great people to work with, if you are full time dont worry about lay offs.

Cons

sometimes overloaded work, and mandatory vaccination, not much of salary grows, management changes, one comes and goes, continuously changes with managements and you wont get much of recognition based on the work you do.