Savers/Value Village Employer Reviews

A non-profit organization that give support to some government association in Edmonton. I learned to work in a retail company and I enjoyed meeting different clients that shop in the store.

There are a lot of positive things about Savers, but it depends a lot of management. The management at my store didn't have things together the way the should have and that fostered a pretty negative environment.

My day started by unlocking the doors, turning alarms off, and doing walk thews to assure it was a safe environment, I would then unlock the doors for team members, and charities so they could start unloading product for the day. I gave team members there quotas and duties for the day. I would do computer, and paper work. I also did interviews, hired, – more...  and fired. (although I didn't like letting people go, it was part of my job title). I trained new employees, and covered areas when we had call ins or someone wasn't reaching quotas. there is a great deal to being a supervisor, I made mistakes, but would like to think I was a good leader, my team liked it when I was in charge because I was fun, and willing to jump in and assure the job was done rather than give negative feedback after they had failed to complete the job. I feel the hardest part of the job was being management, but at the same time I enjoyed the chance to experience it. I think what I enjoyed most about working @ Savers was communicating/interacting with my team I learned Spanish, they learned English. we were almost a family and it was nice to be part of the team – less

working on till
putting stock out and faceing up
helping customers
most enjoyable is when a customer thanks you when you have helped them
the hardest part is helping nasty customers who are rude
All customers must be helped and given smile even when you having a bad day

U name it FAB! From the schedules to the pay raises and great responsible management. Fantastic! Starting pay was great. Friendly atmosphere. Mature group of people as co workers and supervisors. Loved it!

Pricesmart Foods is a fun workplace and I learned to be patient with my co-employees. My most enjoyable part of the job is when I come in contact with customers asking them how's their day's going, helping them what they need.

Value Village : Management is not really that good for I've got lot of supervisors. Sometimes it would be confusing to whom – more...  will you follow but then at the end of the day I still got to do the job that was expected of me. The hardest part of the job is when you are to clean the washroom early in the morning. As to the most enjoyable part of my job is just like in Pricesmart when you will come to talk with the customers: helping them what they need. – less

A typical working day whilst I was at Savers would have been attending to the tills, helping customers, putting out stock and general tidying. The job was a very busy, fast paced and challenging environment and whilst their I learned a number of useful skills to be able to work within the retail industry successful. Some of these skills were: always – more...  behaving in a professional manner towards your clients and helping them to the best of your ability, working well with your team as well as individually, working to the best of your ability and being confident, friendly, punctual and organised. Everyone that worked for the company including my co-workers and managers were friendly, helpful, welcoming and always willing to help me if I needed it. There wasn't anything about my job that I found partially hard, however putting out a large amount of stock in a short amount of time sometimes proved to be difficult. The most enjoyable part of my job was the job itself, I enjoyed helping and communication with different people everyday, I liked the people I worked with as well as the jobs I completed everyday. – less

A typical day at work for Value Village would be a busy day. I've learned the essense of hard work and manual labor. Management at the time was very good. My co-workers were fun people to work with. When I worked for value village there was nothing hard about it, once you got the hang of things its like second nature. What I enjoyed the most about this – more...  job was the discounts. – less

I knew my job every work day what I supposed to do. Every time I learned something new, for example how to evaluate the price for the item and their quality. Management was very good in this company, they were professional and friendly with every worker, very polite and honest. Most my co-workers were positive, they were like my family members. For – more...  5 years of my experience in this company I was dedicated working at Value Village. The hardest part of the job was overtime when I stayed 2-3 hours after 8 hours of my job and sometimes I worked on Saturday or Sunday. The most enjoyable part of the job was to work on holidays when we had a party and when we completed our job 1 hour earlier that usually. For last hour of our work our team usually cleaned the productive area and break room. I still miss my co-workers and supervisor. – less

When I worked at Savers, the store was still in the beginning phase therefore the management was still getting use to day-to-day responsibilities.

The team member are nice to work with even the supervisor are nice to every team
member.

I was primary cashier for 1 year and advanced to production hanger for the following 2 years. I enjoyed co workers and management. The least desirable part of job was not having quality clothing or lack of team work. I enjoyed seeing donations. I learned to be more physically and mentally challenged. Enjoyed 50% off emoployee benefits.
I did not enjoy – more...  knowing no employee package and benefits such as health and dental insurance. No pay advancement unless minimum wage increase. – less

Employees were great. Management was great. They work great with family and good scheduling to meet our family needs. The hardest day is sales day but, it was just as fun. I learned that a job can be fun and hard working at the same time. I enjoyed the customer service aspect of this job.

being a part of a large team and having the responsibliy of the admissions cash flow was an amazing experience, I learned a lot

only job I could find at the time, not good pay or stability needed to look elsewhere.

Most enjoyable part of the job was discovering all the items coming in from donations. The hardest part was trying to determine the price.

Regular reviews and pay increases
Team focused
Bonus and Benefits programs
Room for advance
Incentive Programs

Days were always busy but fun, I learned a lot in customer service, how to deal with customer from different culture, I had to learned Spanish to communicate better with the employee and most customers( the majority were Spanish), learn how to do daily inventory. the most enjoyable part of the job was lunch time with my co-workers we were like a family.

Typical day at work is arrive at 7am and not leave til 5pm. In between it is dealing with constant price checks in the production room , coaching team members and management. Dealing with customers on the sales floor. The hardest part is trying to find time to sit and read reports while eating lunch. Ther most enjoyablepart is the co workers. They are – more...  great, all of them. – less

its a good place to work. the management is reallynot that great though