No opportunities, no incentives - Customer Experience Champion (CEC) Wine Rack Employee Review

3.0
4 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Generally easy and low stress work environment.

Cons

No reason to stay with the company longer than a year. Even if you get promoted to a Customer Experience Champion or a Manager in Training, there's no significant pay increase, you don't get the option of full time hours and you still don't get any benefits. Company doesn't care about you and the store managers are the only ones that have any kind of career options within the company.

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1.0
19 June 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The free wine is a bonus you'll need it if you work here. Met some nice people. You don't have to think too hard to do this job.

Cons

It is very part- time (10-25 hrs/ week) but management expects you to be available 24/7 and gets upset when you aren't. The pay is terrible and raises are a joke/ non-existent. They staff to the bare minimum which means you are alone for usually at least 5 hours at a time. Schedule you so that you can't take a break (even stretches that are longer than 5 hours). I have gone 6+ hours without being allowed to sit down. You must follow a robotic script that leaves no room for real customer interaction otherwise you don't get 100% on the dreaded mystery shop. Mystery shoppers are generally stupid and make stupid comments that really don't reflect the customer service. The company uses low brow/ humiliating sales tactics like the "grape suit" and sign holding. Very demeaning and cheapens Ontario wine image. The company really doesn't care about it's employees (both hourly and management) they just want to squeeze everything they can out of you for the least amount of money possible so they can post better quarterly reports to their investors.

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