“”I work in the shoe department, which has a quota. We must sell a certain amount per hour, usually between 120-300 dollars an hour. If you do not make that amount you go into ‘Deficit.’ This means you owe money to the company, which means your pay is cut…”
Flatly illegal.
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I guess I wont be needing to go to Dillard’s any time soon.
They could always try Bloomingdale’s executive training program.
I’m finding some of this a little hard to believe. Sounds like disgruntled employees on display. If it’s so bad go work elsewhere.
“Not a teamwork atmosphere at all. A lot of gossiping goes on in different departments and co-workers are very aggressive.......”
hell that sounds like every job I ever had!
Odd...a retail store selling product.
What’s the world coming to?
My wife worked at Dillard’s and hated it along with most of her co-workers. She moved to Penney’s which she said was a much better place to work.
“If you do not make that amount you go into ‘Deficit.’ This means you owe money to the company, which means your pay is cut to meet this.”
#1 reason NOT to work or go there. Never heard of the place.
Dillard’s opened a new store in our area about a year ago. Made my first visit to the store a few weeks back to take advantage of a 20% discount they were offering current & former military, police officers, first responders, etc..
This store devotes a great deal of their floor space to women’s apparel, cosmetics, and a relatively small area to men’s apparel. The 20% off applied to all items whether they were already discounted ... so it was a good sale. The quality of their items is generally excellent .. so came away with a good impression of the store. Can’t speak to employee issues ... however, the store was understaffed.
Next push: Going out of business sale!
Some years ago my wife worked as a cashier at Target.
She was expected to push the Target card on everyone who went through her register. She had excellent evaluations except for one: did not get customers to sign up for the cards.
That's right make the employees at fault if people aren't buying their Communist Chinese junk.
The credit card quotas aren’t unknown at other retailers.
I KNOW. Transform all the advertising to cater to hip “urban youth” and watch the merchandize fly off the shelves.
This silly article appears to be a “below average Freeper” detector. Nothing in it is any surprise at all from a traditional retailer. Some people do well in this kind of establishment and others don’t. It’s ok.
I think Dillards has their biggest sale of the entire year on January 1. It is an established thing, or so I have been told.
“...pressured to get the store credit card.” Reminds me of getting pressures to get the useless covid vaccination. “You haven’t gotten it? And you pretend to care about people??”
I avoid Kohl's in particular because of the way they push those credit cards at the register. If you make a sizable purchase, they guilt-trip you by saying you would save "X" amount of money on your current purchase by signing up for one and asking you why you would not want to save all this money on your purchase. Meanwhile you look in back of you and there are 10+ people in line waiting to check out and they are glaring at you because you are now the one holding up the line, arguing with the cashier about a credit card.
The registers themselves are a disaster. Each item requires about 20 keystrokes and the register spits out a four foot long paper receipt. I'm not kidding.
My warning to Dillards. I don’t like pushy sales clerks. I will shop elsewhere.
Dillards was the only place in Memphis I could find a white broadcloth shirt with point collar and French cuffs in 16 1/2 x 35.