River Island Clothing Reviews

Pros

Uniform Allowance, Staff Discount, Decent Pay

Cons

Progression of unsuitable employees for higher level jobs

Pros

Free clothes discount good work collegues

Cons

old fashioned pay scheme always pay query’s

Pros

50% Staff Discount (Head Office only)

Cons

Junior levels are treated like dirt, there is 0 training provided, 0 career progression, 0 benefit (aside from staff discount) and 0 anything positive. Senior levels to blame and almost take joy in watching the junior levels be so unhappy. I ran out of fingers to be able to count the amount of times I'd see girls running off crying.... the pressure that's being put on people to deliver what isn't sometimes possible is ridiculous. A lot of the buyers act as if they have a sense of privilege, as if because they were that level once they can treat anyone how they want; instead of changing the narrative, being the buyer/merch they didn't have. Let's not forget we're only choosing clothes for others to buy...not saving the world. Training doesn't exist, let's start explaining the 'why' behind racks being pulled, the why behind colour splits or ratio sizing and not just saying 'take 5% cost price reduction' every time something goes a week late. Also, if salary is important to you, just remember the pay is awful and even at the very top you'll be lucky to make £100k a year.

Pros

Being Part Of A Great Team, Good Company Benefits, Good Salary, Supportive Leaders. Fab Area Manager, Since Being made redundant from RI the skills I learnt from the company supported me to be able to move on to my next job role.

Cons

Not Many Cons, Challenging To Recruit for late night trade and delivery’s. (Logistics of the store) Management need more support with training in dealing with retention & mental health, people.