The Body Shop Employee Reviews about "great products"

Pros

Opportunity to travel, strong values, great products, good benefits

Cons

Location is the main one

Pros

Ethical company Great products Invest in training and development

Cons

Difficult to progress as store manager if in a store that's remote

Pros

Fun environment, great products, nice discount.

Cons

Strong smells, too demanding, managers are under too much pressure with numbers and ATV's, set ridiculous targets.

Advice to Management

Maybe try to make the environment less stressful.

Pros

Great values, celebrates entrepreneurial behaviors, open to feedback, great product, values team members, leverages partnership with L'Oreal to create more innovative products and training material while still maintaining core ethical standards that The Body Shop has always upheld.

Cons

I don't really have any cons, it was a great place to work.

Advice to Management

Keep stream lining its working.

Pros

Various freebies, including 5 pieces of make-up when you start Lovely people to work with, everyone is very friendly and bubbly Generally pleasant work environment Commendable official company ethos, with some great products

Cons

Minimum wage is fair enough for a retail store, but there should at least be an opportunity to make extra money as bonus etc. Beauty products are nice but there's only so many you can use and at this salary what you care about is the extra cash. There is no real incentive to do better. A lot more heavy lifting/moving stock about than you would expect in a beauty shop. Some of this could easily be avoided by not insisting...

Advice to Management

There should be some clear vision about what the stores should look like and this shouldn't change needlessly as this just creates extra unnecessary work for staff. The discount system should be a lot more consistent as often the staff (let alone the customers) are struggling to understand which offer goes with what and how to combine them. Make all products 30% cheaper and run an occasional promo/sale or at least...

Pros

Fabulous products, great people, nice working environment, excellent discount and freebies, good training programme for new starters, good career progression if you are prepared to work for it

Cons

Lots of lone working, unrealistic targets or targets that don't stack up in stores of similar turnovers, RMs that have favourites, big out of stocks on key lines, offer goal posts move a lot, issue with on line doing better deals

Advice to Management

Understand the challenges of the shop floor, support and encourage rather than beat with a big stick when things are tough, improve stock issues, allow stores to match on line deals or run the same ones.

Pros

-Good working environment, everyone treats everybody as a family. -Nice starting point for individuals who are starting to build their career in retail industry, there are a lot of rooms for improvement so you will learn eventually. -Great products and advocacy

Cons

Salary is not very competitive if you're going to assess your workload. Just the usual benefits of a company. With very few trainings, no training regarding your job, official deployment is training already. Not really appreciative to employee's efforts and achievements (depending on departments). Lacks opportunity for career growth. With no structured recruitment process.

Advice to Management

Give some focus to recruitment process about the need materials to gain more applicants. Value the employee's effort, loyalty and effectiveness. Give more feedback regarding performance. Have some activities/events to help boost employee's motivation.

Pros

- great products and ethics/values of company - free product at every launch - opportunity for sales goals

Cons

- no opportunity for growth