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Binnys Beverage Depot

Coworkers are fantastic. Management at the store level are on your side and want to see you succeed. 

It's retail. Full time has no control over their hours. If you want to work full time and go to school it will need to be online. Will work 6-7 days in a row if the schedule writer deems it necessary. No extra compensation in those cases. 

Will need to lift heavy objects often. Need to be able to be on your feet 8 hours a day constantly lifting 20-160 pounds (beer kegs need to be lifted). 

Customer service focused. You will be interrupted often while on your feet and lifting heavy objects. Rude or awful customers can easily be handed off to management, thankfully. Management will have your back as long as you have maintained civility. 

Benefits aren't bad at all. They pay your Healthcare, but it doesn't include vision. Dental has a high co-pay. 401k matching is nice. 15 dollar minimum wage. 

It's alright, but hard on the body and mind with just enough money to survive if you live on your own. Years wear you down quickly if you are as active as they want you to be. 

For career growth you need to be in wine department or get into management. Beer and liquor don't get their own titles. They don't get extra pay. They are paid as much as cashiers. Wine department gets classes and their own manager. Other departments get shafted.

Binny's does not in any way value their employees, nor do they recognize their contributions, and instead treats every Store Associate as a replaceable, unskilled laborer that requires managerial babysitting.  Likewise, Binny's requires all full-time employees to have "open availability", which means that your schedule changes week-to-week, and that you cannot request a consistent schedule with consistent days off, regardless of need or hardship. Binny's also makes it extremely difficult to requestion time off, and has blackout dates every month of the year, all of which is lorded over every employee by the manager(s) responsible for scheduling, creating an egregious double standard through a culture of hierarchical preferential treatment. Binny's has all of the downsides of working for a major corporation with none of the upside; it is a terrible place to work if you are not a manager, but I would recommend it highly to anyone with a desire for a managerial role wherein you can enforce arbitrary, punitive rules on your subordinates.  

The company takes a sleazy industry like alcohol & tobacco, and tries to refine it. They dont sell cigarettes, they dont sell lotto, which omits a nice chunk of bums you dont want in your store anyway. Their mission, though is simple, and is the same as any other liquor store, is push booze, make profit, no matter the lives you destroy doing so. 

I dont know about other stores, but the baby fresh managers at my location enjoyed strictly enforcing normally mundane company policies, like they were North Korean government, probably in a bid to secure their own positions. They document.. everything. It's the sort of place where you would come in with your shoe untied, and they'd site it as tripping hazard, and a company liability, worthy of a write up & stern talking to. These write ups will begin as early as the first week, where as most companies would take into consideration the fact you are new, and could simply require further training to be successful at the job. Some might say management will use the rules & policies to harass. If you're human, and make mistakes, I would not recommend this place, since I have found the company culture to be rather unforgiving & cold.

Typical retail hours. Good product training. Bad culture. Most employees feel used and burned out.
Store employees are fun to work with and most of the store level managers are fine. Some better than others. But upper management and corporate staff is very dysfunctional. You get contradicting messages and instructions every day. Random corporate visitors just show up and disract people and make things more confusing. A few years ago it was more fun and less every day hassle. Seems like it's growing too fast and still trying to be run like a small company but nobody knows what someone else is doing or saying. The pay scale is only based on seniority, raises are rare (once a year you get 50 cents) and there are no promotions out of the stores unless you know the owner or someone else higher up. They also give out promotions without posting them, it's a lot of favoritism and almost always white men. Very biased and unfair HR practices. Fine for a cashier or stock job (be prepared to work hard all day) but don't expect a career or high pay unless you stay for 20 years.

It's retail so what do you expect.

This is a great job to hold while you're pursuing your university degree or higher. You can't beat being honored what hours you would like to work. The only thing they really ask is that you are able to contribute back towards peak days/hours meaning either: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays.

Compensation is so so, I say that because there are other competing retail shoppes that will pay you just as well but you'll end up doing less. What's less work for you dollar earned, stocking 20-25 lb liquor cases all shift long, or 8-12 lb cases of product, part of your shift. It may be an incentive to work elsewhere on this point.

Management is so so, I've had the chance to work with several managers and it honestly feels as if they have forgotten what it feels like to roll up their sleeves and get to work. The store is not equivocally a hedge fund, often times they make it seem as if it were.

I don't like the job culture, often times by looking at what people are purchasing, I feel as if I'm selling product to be abused and feel somewhat guilty as a result

The Binny's in Springfield usually has a slower-paced work environment, and the work atmosphere is not stressful. A typical workday will include cashiering and maybe completing a task assigned by a manager. Tasks involve stocking, price auditing, cleaning, or random assignments. The customers are usually appreciative and are not as snobby as some grocery or chain store customers are. The workplace culture can be partially toxic among employees, as past incidents have involved associates quitting because of other associates. However, a circumstance like this is rare. The management team is a mixed bag. A few managers will look after and support the associates, yet the general manager tends to micromanage. He has even humiliated employees in front of customers before. If a sales associate does choose to work full-time, he/she could be promoted into the wine, spirits, or beer department if they accomplish outstanding work as a sales associate. Scheduling continuously varies, and you must request a day off 21 days in advance. 

I love Binny's and everyone that worked there. 

The best part about this job is the environment is great. Everyone gets along with everyone and talking to other coworkers came really easily. I promise you would fit in here no matter what, everyone is friendly and welcoming. You'll even get invited to go out with everyone often!

The hardest part about the job is the customers. Some people are just really rude and unfriendly, but that is customers everywhere.  Some people just do not want to be talked to at all. Also, when you're working the register some people come up with multiple carts full of wine and they expect you to box everything up quickly or get annoyed. But with wine, you usually have to type in a vintage number to where you have to search the bottle for it. 

If I could work there for the rest of my life, simply for the happiness of being there, I would. But it is not realistic considering I am going to college for something completely unrelated. I would definitely recommend this job to anyone.

This company is great to work for, especially if you want to learn more about wine and spirits. They help you learn by sending you to classes, reps for the products come in and educate you, and most of the customers are friendly and knowledgeable as well. The most enjoyable part of the job for me was seeing how much I've learned in such a short amount of time, and my customers praising me for the info I share with them. Scheduling is a pain though, as it is retail and most of the time for full time retail staff, management wont sit down and talk to everyone to work out specific days off. It comes with the territory I suppose. Also the healthcare they offer is great, and they don't charge you for it which is pretty awesome. Starting pay for all associates is $15 an hour too. Overall, I think this is a good place to work but if you're not a fan of retail work then I wouldn't recommend it. 

I worked here for 6 years. It's a typical retail job where you have to deal with rude or difficult people. The pay is okay and you get yearly raises, but unless you're a manager you don't make much. After 6 years I was only making $14.60/hr. When the minimum wage increased you would get bumped to whatever it was. It was nice but also frustrating because new people would be making the same amount as an associate working there for years. It was a very physically demanding job especially during the holiday season. You dont necessarily need to know much about alcohol to work here, I had very little knowledge when I first started. The company is pretty good about training. At my store our managers were pretty knowledgeable about their departments and were willing to teach people about them if they had questions.

In my over 30 years of retail I have never seen a company behave in the way they do.  Binny’s as a company judges your personality rather than your work ethic. Stay far, far away from this company the environment is extremely toxic. The benefits are good but pay is low for the job duties. There is minimal communication between management and employees. Management plays favorites like a fraternity or sorority club. I also encountered lack of concern for one’s well being and safety during the pandemic more greed than concern for employees. Also using computer software from the early 1990’s did not help business transactions go smoothly.  Do not apply Run, seek elsewhere.

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