Kaspien Reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(203 total reviews)
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Brock Kowalchuk

59% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Kaspien has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 203 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kaspien employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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203 reviews
1.0
2 Jan 2017

ZERO Trust Anymore

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Pros

Snacks are good. I used to love being here. I felt I could trust the managers, I enjoyed the teamwork and management. Now I do not trust a single soul of management, sorry.

Cons

Recently, they laid off several employees (and many of whom I considered my friends). They claim it is not motivated by the acquisition, but it clearly is. In our meeting, they said it was about position, not performance (this was their way to get out of having to do actual performance reviews). Publicly they said that they wanted to keep their best performers...but wouldn't this require a performance review that I know many people laid off didn't get? People laid off that had been here for over a year had only gotten a portion of their acquisition share, and guess who pockets the rest? That's right. Sir CEO. Not very fair, eh? On the outside, "generous", on the inside, they steal that money back from the employees that do all the work. Also, the way they picked and chooses who to lay off was almost amusing. They kept their friends that had jobs with positions that normally would have been eliminated. How did they keep their jobs? They moved them to a different department or position first so they could be safe! Whew! They kept their friends safe. How sweet. Everyone else, not so lucky. Really?? I never thought I'd see such a bogus turnaround from this CEO. I still can't believe my eyes and ears. Nobody feels their job is safe. Well, except the friends of the upper inner-circle.

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Thanks for the feedback. We truly do care what our employees are thinking about these and other matters, and if you’re in fact a current employee, we encourage you to reach out to your manager or someone on the HR team to further discuss these concerns.
1.0
9 Jan 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Cool Co-workers (well most of them are gone) A few awesome managers

Cons

They are going broke Are not open and honest about the state of the companies situation Pretty cowardly on terminating people enmasse Poor compensation and it’s not getting better now Did I mention going broke check stock reports. Parent company lost 14 million and the lost 4 Have no plan to fix it and are trying to stop the bleeding

1.0
9 Jan 2019

Don't work here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The free food and casual dress code was nice. Would have gladly given them up for better pay

Cons

Low starting wage Lots of cliques Little upward mobility unless you're friends with the managers

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