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If you’re looking for a job to really get paid this is not the one for you, unless you’re in college. Honestly you can find a better retail job with much better pay. Unfortunately the management here lacks the communication needed to really build a team. The turnover rate for this job is pretty high, being that within the first few months 5 people quit. In my opinion, the store also lacks diversity and it’s clear through marketing and the staff that this store is intended for a certain group of people. If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow or seek higher pay, watch out because you might just get promoted with no pay increase. There was no time taken to train current employees to be better, and only management seemed to take control over everything. You can go into this store and contribute a lot but will hardly get recognized for it if you’re not a favorite of management. I hate to say, even the managers need better training on how to communicate well on a team.

I want to start out by saying I absolutely loved my JOB. I love styling women and working in retail and building a relationship with my customers. However, the owner of this location new to running a business and was not professional to say the least. Myself along with my other coworkers felt like we were in a high school setting. It became very stressful to be there and I no longer looked forward to going to work. It is very unfortunate because if it had not been for the owner I would still be working at Apricot Lane. I feel that the franchise has a lot of positive things going for it and this will be the one location to have people saying otherwise. There is a reason that there is not one person from the original opening of this location. I hope someday this behavior turns around and I feel for the young college students and women that work for her now.

I have worked for Apricot Lane St. Cloud since the spring of 2014 after being a customer from the day it opened. I loved the owner, staff, and environment and wanted to become apart of the Apricot Lane St. Cloud family. I have been happy since the day I started and couldn't imagine being anywhere else. I love that the owner encourages all of her employees to pursue their dreams no matter what, whether they include Apricot Lane St. Cloud or not. There are certain employees that have left that did bring the work environment down and made it feel like you were babysitting instead of being a stylist and once they left the environment it became even a better and friendlier place and I once again looked forward to come into work. The skills I have learned over the last two years are immeasurable and I am forever grateful.

At the location I worked at, we had PANDORA jewelry and that was a blast! All the girls got along really well and it was always fun to work together doing projects or training. It was really great to be able to go to work and not dread being there for eight hours. Having a set list of expectations was very helpful and there was almost always something you could be doing. Straightening, folding, sweeping, cleaning: the list is endless.  Nothing was to hard or unreasonable. Even if you worked a four or five hour shift you could always finish the list of things you might be given to do. The owners were always fair and really tried to support all of us in what we wanted to do and did a great job of making it easy to communicate with them. As long as you followed the set rules and met expectations there was never anything to worry about.

● Work-life balance
Does depend on each store

● Pay & benefits
After so many months you start earning vacation time

● Job security and advancement
They gave my store 14 days notice that we were closing right after Christmas

● Management
Corporate was involved in my store. They seemed to be ambiguous about a lot of things allowing for problems to arise at the store. They needed to be more direct.

● Culture
If you have a good team it’s not the worst place to work.

● Overall
I felt simultaneously like I wasn’t able to make any decisions in my store and that when I did make decisions they were always undermined  which lead for other people in the store to not take me seriously. If corporate would have been more direct and delegated tasks like they said they wanted, this would have lead to a better work environment. 
Each store is different however depending on the owner

Let me preface by saying boutiques don't do well in my area, the longest standing one has been here for 5 years, but that's because they were the first boutique to set up and establish a customer connection. Others barely last a year.
Extremely boring at my location. We were in a mall, but on a 6-7 hour shift I maybe had 2 guests come in if I was lucky. The most there was to do was on closing shift with cleaning duties, otherwise you'd have to get creative (move store fixtures, rearrange clothes, rearrange jewelry table.) The most exciting thing I did was set up a summer window display with paper umbrella's tied onto fishing line.
Being a franchise location one owner would get on us after seeing us sit at the til for almost an entire shift(there was a store camera that could be accessed remotely), the other would include us on stuff like store stock purchases. 

I spent a long portion of my workday communicating with customers, providing information regarding product and ensuring that customers are satisfied with their experience with the store. When not helping customers I would prioritize my time by cleaning, organizing, working on inventory to make the store run smooth and efficiently.
My prior position at Apricot Lane as a trainee/fashion consultant has taught me the importance of time management and always putting the customer first. I’m always friendly to every customer that walks through the door and I know how to work efficiently and prioritize tasks in order to get everything done in a timely manner.

Every Apricot Lane is individually owned so it really matters which location you work at. The location that I worked at they had very high expectations. They would text me at all hours about unnecessary things and had very little boundaries. They watch the camera recordings and listen, people have gotten in trouble for saying things. There's no commission or benefits. There's also no job security, my hours and 2 other people's were cut in half without warning or explanation. The employee discount is nice but when you find out how much they price gouge...its just not worth it in my opinion. Management made multiple people cry.

Apricot Lane is a great place to work. I have so much fun with the ladies that shop and visit. I love visiting with our regular guests and creating lasting relationships. I have made close friendships with several of the ladies that shop and work there. We keep our inventory fresh by shopping markets and vendors that visit the store.  We have a blast selling at different pop ups and meeting new guests. I highly recommend working with Apricot Lane for anyone that loves working with people and clothing. 

When I first started at Apricot Lane, I was doing so as an Internship position for my college requirements.  I was responsible for the window fashions and the visual displays of the window at Blackhawk Plaza in Danville Ca.  
Using the apparel and merchandise we carried and making it appealing to our clients and propsective  buyers.  This immediately turned into a paid positon as Sales Rep and then on to Management.

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