My Experience: - Retail Sales Associate Sunglass Hut Employee Review

3.0
25 June 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The job is very fun. The discounts you get are great. Generally a very chill job but I'll get to that in a second. Overall? Not bad & that is a lot better than most jobs I've worked.

Cons

I have worked a handful of opening shifts in my entire year working @ SGH even though I have asked for more hours, asked for different shifts, etc so that I can actually make my sales goals throughout the week. Regional manager never replies to messages, HR portal sucks. My customer reviews are fantastic & I know I'm truly good at my job, but my manager has his behind to the fire & of course that means my life has to be much harder & he spreads rumors about me hoping I'll just put in my two weeks & quit because he can't actually fire me. I get four hour shifts in a mall with 2 other Sunglass Hut stores & even when I make great sales throughout the week I never get commission because my manager simply takes all of the opening shifts for himself throughout the week & nobody besides the other person he schedules for 3-4 opening shifts a week makes their goal. He basically tells me to figure it out on my own how to make sales happen... selling sunglasses at night... I'm not kidding -- my manager & his favorite employee lie about me. :/ I pretty much only ever work alone too so I never get feedback on how I can adapt however they want me to. It's a mess & honestly very stressful & makes me feel insecure. I haven't worked at other locations so I couldn't say how the experience is elsewhere, but I imagine making sales happen is a lot easier -- ESPECIALLY when you're not competing with two other locations inside the SAME EXACT MALL. A lot of times I don't even have the stuff people want even if they were willing to spend $400 on sunglasses right then & there, a lot of times because it's Vegas they're not even from town. Overall the job in a vacuum isn't that bad, but if you're not your manager's favorite then this job just sucks & doesn't pay. I'm making fast food wages basically.

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5.0
18 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Commission is good especially for busy days. Good work culture. Supportive DEI practices.

Cons

Mandatory holiday coverage is inconvenient.

4.0
27 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Getting 1% of your sales commission every month + base play + bonuses depending on how well the store does adds up a lot. When I worked here, I was one of the best sellers in my district and my store was 14/21 in our district - which led to me making roughly $21-$23 an hour once you added everything up and divided by the amount of time that I worked. Stocking and pushing stuff to the floor is cartoonishly easy considering how small the sunglasses and that packaging actually is. AP is super easy because there's not that much ground to cover. The biggest thing is that this job basically lives and dies by how good of a seller you are and how much of a people person you are. 80% of this job is just about making sales and hitting company quotas and the other 20% is visual merchandising, operational management, making schedules, etc.

Cons

In my district, the district manager kept badgering us about our numbers and moving goal post for us even when we were off the clock and getting in touch with him was nearly impossible. They're also really nitpicky when it comes to how you allocate hours and how you schedule people - even when the store is already meeting company goals. There's also just a lot of straight up favoritism in upper upper management and a lot of nonsense decisions the DM just made because of "vibes" and nothing else. They pushed a lot of unrealistic goals for stores on super short notice and they came up with a lot of ideas that were just kinda trash - while forcing us to swallow it and to try to make it work.

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