KMart corporate is killing kmart stores and blaming associates. - Associate Kmart Employee Review

2.0
18 Nov 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It can be very easy to stand out if you are a real worker as the majority of kmart employees are becoming part time high school kids and the turnover is insane. Full time benefits are fairly decent. It is easy to work around your out of work schedule.

Cons

Too many to mention. Corporate disconnect with real world ability to perform the endless lists of tasks passed down given the constantly shrinking budgets that often leave only a couple employees on the sales floor every weekday. Estimated time frames for projects to be completed is grossly miscalculated as it assumes zero interruption from customers and perfect inventory management (impossible due to extremely few full time employees and available budget). Stores seem to be penalized by shrinking budgets when sales are bad, instead of given a budget boost to try and fix the problem, resulting in a never ending year after year sales decrease snowball. Stores are decades old and no money is spent to renovate. Fixtures may be literally taped, zip tied, bent, cut, painted, etc in order get layouts done with whats available.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Everything was a pro. That place was awesome to work for!

Cons

The only con is that is no longer a store in our community. Sadly, it went out of business.

4.0
2 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

easy job, flexible schedule, fun coworkers

Cons

long days, busy, rude customers,

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