Kmart Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If the management can be more open, discussion with their staffs will be very helpful."

What do you like about working at Kmart?

"Working with customers, great atmosphere, great benefits, good salary, working in sales, merchandising and operations."

What do you like about working at Kmart?

"Challenging, never the same day twice - very knowledgeable and experienced store staffs. Friendly - great job."

What don't you like about working at Kmart?

"Uncertainty - at the time upper management was being filtered down - stores closing, etc. Excessive conference calls."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Work hard and you will get ahead, Kmart will recognize you, just give it time."

What don't you like about working at Kmart?

"My training was only a couple months and I wish it could of been longer."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If you worked for the company before and left in good standings, you should not have to go through a lot of paper work again."

"Kmart is the place holder job one takes *while* someone looks for a real job."

What do you like about working at Kmart?

"There's not much. The discounts would be nice, the pricing was more on par with other retail department stores. They also offer a part-time benefit package, but the pricing is so high compared to the 20-hour-a-week average, that unless you're working simply to have insurance, it's not worth taking."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you confirm the position you're applying for before wasting any time with an interview. Be hard-line on your availability before you say yes. Keep looking for a better job, retail's never been all that great, but Kmart is pushing the bottom of the retail barrel."

What don't you like about working at Kmart?

"The draconian rigidity in attendance policy (apparently your ability to perform is third to your ability to work while sick and to hard-sell perks), the push to hard-sell discount programs and Smart-Plans, the abhorrent practice of forcing workers to work on long-accepted family holidays. The inability to control/defuse us-n-them and not-my-job attitudes between departments. The bait-n-switch hiring practices. The bonus/raise system of no one gets a raise unless the store does x growth. The everyone part-time except supervisors and above policy. Moronic opening/closing times based on national trends, instead of regional and local. The general apathy (encouraged) by most of the issues above."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"If you want to be a family store, consider the family members you have working there first, instead of following the 80s retail cog ideal. Clean out old positions held by people simply there due to attrition. Give employees a reason to be part of Kmart. Push to make Kmart a leader in the industry, not simply a follower of every reprehensible retail trend currently being tested."