store manager

assistant manager

merchandising assistant

buyer

planner

Bealls Inc.

I’ve never experience so much drama in the work place in my life poor management I’ve ever seen not to mention corporate is literally a joke everything suppose to be confidential however if you have a complaint they advice that person rather it’s another supervisor or employee that you file a complaint against them which should not be allowed because your putting that person life at risk and only causing more drama in the work place that makes it unbearable for a person to even do there job. I had an issue with a supervisor  they literally told the supervisor that I file a complaint even though it clearly stated that everything is confidential and can remain Anonymous it’s clearly not! they don’t care who they hire cause none of them cared about the company only there to make money You have employees who work truck and would literally take all the good merchandise and put it on hold for themselves not to mention putting things on hold for more then 5 days and keep extending there hold for weeks at a time or waiting for the merchandise to become clearance rather it’s hiding merchandise from customer for themselves in the hold closet  up front by the registers or mos boxes or in the office it’s pretty much acceptable at this store location although I’m sad to depart ways with the company I’ve had a pleasure of doing the best I could do as an sales associate selling merchandise getting to know the customers and making them smile is the only thing I will miss the customers is what kept me going when days I’ve literally felt like giving up it’ also saddens me that they treat the loyal workers terrible specially the ones who’ve been with the company for over 10years and etc or employees who’ve been with them for over 2years every time there is a new hire they will cut there best employees hours or how they treat there best supervisors you have some that don’t do there work they gossip more then they actually do work and the ones who work so hard gets the short end of the stick specially if they have the district manger coming in to do inspections that’s when they put they best worker to work the night before to clean mean while that whole week you’ll have either the store manager who never cleans or recover the store or clean bathrooms it’s really ridiculous also the company doesn’t give you much to grow and you could work for years and the pay is literally not worth it in my opinion these last few months I’ve notice that this store makes a lot of customers feel uncomfortable no one should ever feel like they not wanted and what I mean by that is the store manger trains his employees to do intercom pages when they think someone looks suspicious or if they think there stealing merchandise they would announce security line one or security you have a phone call etc this the only store that does that and it’s usually done when minorities comes in really makes a person not want to spend they hard earn money I hope that literally changes even though you really do have customers who come in and take things and not purchase it would be much easier if they just become a lock store instead of making fake announcements  over the intercom like I’ve mentioned this is the only store I’ve ever see that makes announcements like that I understand you suppose to protect the merchandise but that’s not the way to go about it by making customers feel unwanted or uncomfortable many have express they concerns about this and all I could do was literally apologize this is a very small community and everyone literally knows everyone when they hire you they say it’s like a family it’s not! Family don’t get treated like the way I did it’s sadden me because I’ve had hopes in retiring from this company but I look at it as a blessing in disguise and GOD will bless me with something better my advice if you work for this company make your money and go home! And if you have any problems do not get corporate involved or the store manager cause whatever chance they get they will make you feel like your the bad person 

My usual work week consists of opening once or twice, closing usually three nights, completing markdowns, merchandising my four ways and end-caps, processing freight, completing paper-work, doing MOS, supervising associates, and helping customers on the sales floor and at the registers. I have learned a lot about providing excellent customer service and how to be a good retail supervisor. I enjoy working with most of my co-workers (who make work fun). Management pushes too hard with driving sales, credit cards, and one cards. The manager never compliments anyone individually for doing a good job. So, sometimes I feel as if the good work I am doing gets unappreciated. There also seems to be some favoritism going on in the way the manager makes the schedules. For instance, one particular person my manager seems to like over the rest of us gets to open four days a week and only close one night while others have to close up to three or four nights a week (with only enough time to clean the store, no time to work in his or her departments). In addition to this, there are never enough hours because sales are down. The store usually runs on only two or three employees. On a Friday or Saturday night (both busy nights), it will just be me and a cashier running the store. So, I would have to help the cashier if she got a line at the cash wrap, put back clothes on the bar if she couldn't, clean the whole store myself, and then do all the closing procedures. Also, the bathrooms have to be cleaned and the manager wants us to sweep and spot-mop our departments each night. It is way too much for just two employees to do, especially on a busy night. And the pay is just not enough for that much work. Not to mention the fact that we have to play LP as well because we have so many shoplifters in our store. Of course we can call LOCC and they can watch them, but usually we have to do everything ourselves. I feel as if this company does appreciate its customers, but definitely not their employees, who are worked too hard and paid far too less.

A typical day in a retail management job often consists of maintaining a store environment that is a pleasant experience for customers by managing many employees simultaneously. Work begins fairly early in the morning, often before the retail location opens, and an 8- to 10-hour workday begins. Retail managers handle a wide variety of routine tasks, such as writing reports; supervising employees; managing cash; ordering stock; handling schedules, payroll, and marketing and promotional roll-outs; and securing the store upon closing. In addition, a retail manager can expect to deal with customer complaints, employee work delegation, staff shortages, equipment failures and other unexpected things that occur in a retail environment. On average, retail managers may work as many as 50 or more hours per week.
Through my experience so far in retail I have learned many things about not only the job force, people and communication. Understanding both sides for the party, the retail aspect and the customers aspect is the most valuable trait have learned so far. We also need to make every customer a reoccurring customer but we as management always knew that there is a goal that needs to be make so that you are doing your job to the standard you need to up hold. People work with others to achieve common goals. Whether an organization is for profit, or non-profit – we typically accomplish more through the interaction with and assistance from other people.
The quality of human relationships (and coworker relationships) allows some teams to be amazingly productive with only a few people and a marginal infrastructure – while other teams are lethargic, despite having an extensive infrastructure, financial resources, and large teams. 
There are always difficult things you do life and than there are always enjoyable. I take everything as a challenge.

A typical day at Bealls Home Centric depends a lot on who is leading the store. When I worked in Athens, Elberton, and Winder, Georgia the environment was professional, organized, and supportive. I truly learned valuable lessons about leadership, customer service, and teamwork in those locations, and the culture there made hard work feel rewarding.

Unfortunately, my experience in Huntsville was very different. A day there often felt overwhelming, with unrealistic expectations and poor communication. Training was inconsistent, and priorities changed daily. While District Management sometimes offered support, the Store Managers outburst on the sales floor created unnecessary tension and set the wrong tone for the team. Instead of motivating, it dragged morale down.

The hardest part of Huntsville was keeping up with constant resets and shipments without the staffing or structure needed. The most enjoyable part was working alongside my peers, who helped one another push through. Overall, I can say I enjoyed my time in Georgia stores under strong leaders, but Huntsville showed how much management truly makes or breaks the workplace culture.

I worked for Bealls Outlet for a year and a half. Let me just say that they care nothing about employees! The store that I worked at wasn't bad when it came to employees. The biggest issue is the District Manager and Corporate people. We get on average 430 boxes every week. Maybe more on some days. They give us little payroll and expect us to get the freight out withing 24-48 hours!!! Mind you that we have to unpack the boxes, organize them, size the clothing (s,m,l,xl etc size markers on the hangers) and then put the merchandise on the floor via the in store magazine. PLUS we have to scan for markdowns every week also. The manager gives you 10 hours a week then wants to call you in to come work when there were people working there for 4+ years. I worked for three different managers withing my 1 yr and a half there. Each manager complains about the higher up people. The whole company is a mess. They expect so much in so little time. Oh yea, they do believe in the whole saying "The customer is always right". If a customer comes and complains about something and you as the cashier or supervisor cannot do anything about it because it is against store policy, you will get in trouble because the corporate people will call you and say "why didnt you do so and so to the customer". Mind you even if its against store policy. You basically can return anything here. Bras that were worn. Shoes that were worn. ANYTHING. A typical day at work depends on the day really. You have to check out customers, clean, do the fitting rooms, and if the truck is that day also do that. The job is very unrealistic. I have never in my life worked for worse people. The only reason I stayed so long was to help pay bills. You are basically worked too much for wages that dont meet the needs of the store.

Of those I've encountered, Bealls Inc. is comprised of genuine, hardworking and honest individuals with most having a sincere interest in providing exceptional guest service each and everyday.

The company is unique in that it's privately owned, only based in Florida and caters to a niche consumer base with it's products and services.

The atmosphere is relaxed...a local, small town feel in that your customer base often consists of repeat guests who visit and view their Bealls location as a primary source to obtain the products they need. Also, given that Bealls is a Florida based retailer, visitors (tourists, vacationers, snowbirds) are a very big component of the consumer base as they often times find products only in Bealls that are not readily available in their home communities.

My biggest issue with Bealls Inc. is their reluctance to bring their operations up to speed and standard to 2018. The operations and policies are antiquated. From the communication systems to employee policies their are serious deficiencies that open the company up to inefficiencies in providing quality service to their consumers and also to their employees. 

My opinion, the company needs to enhance their ambition and operationally structure themselves in line with larger, national retailers. The current "mom and pop" approach, though romantic, is not efficient in today's ever changing and forward moving society.

You can be small and play BIG. Your customers and employees will appreciate the effort in making their shopping experience as seamless as possible and your employees jobs easier.

I would go set the ad ,stock merchandise, run register, solstice emails and credits, train new employees, put clothing back from fitting rooms, help customers on the floor, answer phone calls and floor calls to the registers for help, mark ups mark downs,and help anywhere else needed.
 I learned about products, how to get sales, how to use a pda, how to use a register, how to troubleshoot issues, how to use windows for ad signing, setting all types of ads,colorizing,creating displays,teamwork and effort.
 Management for the part was good scoring on reviews or ok but not alway right on. Some Management had unfair calling on things the company did an overhaul on the Management so in 2012 there was almost all new with no experience with the employees that worked there for some time and mostly who did not quit got fired wrote up for something or another,most of the former Managers either quit or got transferred , there are one or two Managers that that still do things fair that work there But in the first few years i worked there the Management was outstanding and I really enjoyed working with and for them and still would be cause there still are some managers that are fair and great team players.
  My co-workers were great I got along with all of them and we all worked as a team together where ever need to get thing done.
 Nothing I did was hard to me I really enjoy fast pace,multi task,team effort jobs, that take a lot to do them just maybe dealing with the management shifting in 2012 was hard to deal with.
 I enjoyed all the aspects of the work this job required

I worked for this company for a number of years in a District Manager position. When I first started it was great it was like a second family. I loved coming to work love the people and places I traveled to. After about 3 years things started to change and the company started going the corporate route and forgot about the employees and started opening stores trying to compete with Ross and TJX which this company will never be on that level. All of these new stores are failing sales are awful customers don't want the One Card that they pressure employees to push there spending more money then they make to keep these stores open. So with all of this happening of course they don't give out raises or bonuses. I've seen great managers and employees leave this company because of being unfairly pushed out or just being tired of all of the politics they have to put up with. Stores have very little to no budget and are expected to get their freight out, ring sales, recover the store, go to the bank, get payroll and schedules complete. Its all unrealistic and when the manager can't do  or explains it's only 2 people working in a store they get put on the chopping block. At one point I made this place my life I spent more time in the stores then I spent at home which didn't bother me because I loved my job, but now this place is like going to prison everyday. If you plan on taking a district level position beware it's all about kissing as much butt as you can to keep your job. If it's not broke don't fix it greed is going to be this company's down fall.

I’ve noticed that Bealls has shut down locations, cut employee positions, lower its employees starting pay rates, and are getting rid of holiday pay for part-time associates. The company culture is meant to revolve around honesty, integrity, community, and accountability, but the resolution of serious issues in the workplace often leave something to be desired. Store Managers are basically left to their own devices and allowed to run their stores however they like with little oversight. Training seems very low priority bordering on non-existent throughout the company. Full time positions with benefits are promoted as an incentive to join the team and work your way up in the company, but were only offered to one employee besides the Store Manager. Cashier positions are relatively straightforward. Working the truck has become a nightmare due to the unreliable nature of truck shipments, the restrictions set around staffing hours, and the unpredictability of shipment sizes. 

We’ve only been able to schedule employees for 7-10 hours a week and our management and supervisor team keeps being asked to put a positive spin on a deteriorating situation. The store seems to just get more cluttered and we get asked to cram more merchandise into a finite amount of space and do more work for less pay and less scheduled hours. 

You’ll meet some really wonderful people through this company and it’s not a bad first job for young people , but is a really hard place to stay and make a living wage with a reasonable work life balance.

In general, it's really not that bad of a place to work. It just depends on who the people are that work there. The current manager at my store is very uncomfortable to be around and is not the best person. Everyone else is okay to be around though... On a side note: We can have hair different colors of the rainbow, but aren't allowed to have a small, dainty nose piercing. That makes no sense at all and I feel like that is discrimination to a certain extent. We live in a world filled with fashion and should be able to express ourselves as long as it doesn't interfere with our job. They cut your hours back A LOT even if you have open availability, but continue to hire more people. Hardly give any raises & if they do, then the max amount is .20 cents. When it gets super busy and we get flooded with go-backs, there's not enough people to help put things away and recover the store, therefore the store is left looking a mess. They always push you to get the customers to apply for the Credit Cards & if you don't get enough, then it is badly reflected on you, which is stupid because you can't force someone to get something that they don't want to get & most people already have them including the C2C rewards. I could go on & on. The company just keeps getting worse and worse. I most definitely do not recommend working here.

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Assistant manager 4 salaries reported	$14.25 per hour
Merchandising assistant 3 salaries reported	$18.67 per hour
Buyer 4 salaries reported	$97,000 per year
Planner 5 salaries reported	$68,200 per year

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