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      Good luck moving up! - Sales Associate REI Employee Review

      3.0
      30 Dec 2008
      Sales associate
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Benefits for part time employees. Perfect job for students. It is an atmosphere that wants you to balance your outdoor passions with work.

      Cons

      it is very hard to move to full time. You almost have to kiss up to the managers. Everything is centered upon selling memberships. If you have a hard time selling memberships, you are worthless to them. They do not value employees that actually know what they are talking about, and have experience using the gear that they sell. As a sales assocaite your job is to sell memberships, then product. Your hours get docked as a punishment if you do not meet membership goals.

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      5.0
      21 Jun 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Business outlook

      Pros

      Open and nice to work for

      Cons

      Didn’t like that you won’t be able to take time off during sales and so people call out

      3.0
      20 Jun 2026
      Sales specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Excellent coworkers - REI does a great job of hiring enthusiastic and personable staff - Slightly better pay compared with other retail in the area - Prodeals and discounts - Flexible hours - Good (although rapidly diminishing) healthcare benefits

      Cons

      - Once a (better) company known for its investment in knowledgeable and friendly staff via extensive training and investment, the company has been slowly slashing away at most of what makes it special since the pandemic - Hours and benefits are worsening, proper employee training is becoming hard to come by - lots of mediocrity and sometimes questionable ethical calls made by management - Punitive disciplinary policies that seem to be designed to create higher turnover (advantageous to them given the gradual pay, benefit and policy changes)

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