Simple retail job with concerning management priorities - Retail Sales Associate Cole Hardware Employee Review

3.0
14 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-fun products -generally good store environment -local engagement

Cons

-shit pay -shit management -zero growth opportunity

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5.0
26 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

nice coworkers, engaging environment, relatively relaxed.

Cons

customers can be pushy and needy

1.0
6 Dec 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Location is very convenient and accesible

Cons

I was forced to quit after a year when I found out that others who were hired after me (and were white) were receiving almost a dollar more per hour. When I reported an employee who had been working there for many years for using a racist derogatory slur to describe our coworker on multiple occasions, no action was taken and he continues to work there. The management of the company is even worse. They only show up briefly in stores and take all the credit for the stores sales. They are quick to throw you under the bus if it protects themselves. Never have I worked for an Ace Hardware with such backwards values. They also offer no increase in pay for being bilingual. When I quit after enduring this behavior for a year, I was walked out by managers and given a trash bag to collect my things in front of all of my coworkers like a criminal.

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