category manager

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store manager

surveillant de magasin de détail

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Kardish Health Food Centre

The opportunity to learn about vitamins and supplements is a great advantage to working at Kardish, but that's really where the advantages end. You work on commission essentially tricking people into thinking that you are some kind of health-naturopathic professional when in reality you are just trying to find the best way to sell them something from their Kardish brand (that truly is awful in comparison to the great brands they used to sell) and sign them up for their points system, and of course if you have morals and choose to truly help a customer you will pay for it through you "commission" or bonus, that they can take away as they please and attempt a cutthroat competition amongst your coworkers.

And that's besides the poor revolving door they call management, one comes in, terrorizes employees, leaves, rinse and repeat. Managers are offered a significant bonus if they are able to make their cost-per-day as low as possible, therefore incentivizing management to make employee's days as miserable as possible to maintain their low budget and pay out their managers. There is absolutely no respect for employees, keeping their best performing employees below minimum wage and will bend over backwards to make sure that they don't have to pay you an extra dime, even making you clock out before completing all closing procedures. This was truly the worst work experience of my life.

Some of the friendliest people I have ever met worked at Kardish, but they all agreed that the company could use many improvements. Recently, they have introduced a sales leaderboard - although that can work in some retails settings, some of the locations are extremely slow. You are shamed for working at a slow location that can be difficult to make sales at. You are pressured to sell products that will make the company more money, even if another product would work better for the customer. 

Pay was not equal, senior employees made less than new ones. Commission was taken away and employees at busier locations made more. Considering the amount of knowledge you must have to be a Wellness Advisor, and the amount of tasks you have to complete in a shift, employees should be making more than minimum wage. You get the same wage as a cashier at a grocery store. 

The CEO used the company Facebook page to share a petition he had made to kick homeless people out of his local hockey arena, during the height of the covid pandemic, so that his children could play hockey. 

When I started at Kardish I was happy with the hours of work and free education about supplements. 
I was there for 2.5 yrs and had 5 managers. The best manager we had was exploited and treated like the dirt on the bottom of our CEOs shoe. That manager that was there when I left was probably  the worst manager I ever had in my working career.
 The gossip that would come from head office about the employees was disgraceful and when the owners did come by they would take stock from the shelves to bring home with them. They would often come in and leave through the back door so to not have to interact  with the customers.
We were over worked and it still wasn't enough. They hired friends on at a higher pay grade than the people already working to do the exact same job.
The experience  is memorable to say the least. I would not recommend working there.

One of the worst jobs I have worked for. The expectations from management staff are very high. They expect you to work long hours, work alone with no help and in return they give you no holidays, the pay is horrible, not even enough to get by, and no appreciation and thank you and definitely no support from the owners. They only cared about buying a new home when we were all struggling. Every person I worked with that worked there in the past or present has nothing good to say about them. They make their products and some of them have false information on them and they wouldn't even reveal to us where they were getting it manufactured in the name of "business secrets". They fire people whenever they see fit and they fire people a lot. Save yourself and stay away from this company

Mandatory every 3 week training's. Can't even book holidays during that week. Long boring days that are very repetitive. 

Great customers and staff most of the time. 

Fun atmosphere most of the time. 

Lots of free products at training's. 

Keep in mind this is a growing business. They just opened their 9th store in Ottawa. They also won the best Ottawa business award and the employee choice award. 

However, since all of these awards and rapid growth, there has been a lot of change and expectations. You are expected a lot of compared to any other minimum wage job.

The owners only care about making money, they tell their employees to PUSH kardish products. Horrible management, long hours working alone in the store with no gratitude for the work you’re doing. Each time there’s a sale they up the prices to make it seem like you’re saving when most of the time you aren’t. Also when working there, I had covid and was told to keep working because they don’t believe in it. 
I would never recommend working here, the owners are horrible to deal with. 

Overall I enjoyed my time working here. I left because I didn’t agree with the values of the management. Very competitive workplace where employees are ranked based on how much they can sell and the values of the company are based on profit from selling their own brand over the others rather than the wellness of their costumers. Some employees were mistreated due to their gender and/or race. 

Very unorganized workplace, untrained and uninformed management. Too many tasks and not enough hours in the day. High expectations without much training, you are left to figure things out and when you take initiative you get in trouble. Employees are not at all empowered, you are micro managed. Only a half hour for lunch is allowed and breaks are almost impossible to take. Too much pressure to sell.

This was the worst job that I have ever had. First off, everything you say to customers is completely scripted. I would get in trouble by my manager for not saying the proper lines. Very fake and I was miserable. My manager was also horrible and very passive aggressive. I did not feel comfortable approaching her about any issue because I was afraid she was going to freak out. Also very very boring

I really appreciated a retail position in which I felt I could learn something new everyday. It was great to work with a nutritionist and learn things from her about different health products. I believe there were opportunities to advance but I felt that there was an overall bias/ "compliment the right person thing"  that I didn't feel was a good job culture for advancement.

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Category manager 1 salary reported	$62,500 per year
Retail store manager 2 salaries reported	$48,500 per year
Store manager 4 salaries reported	$48,250 per year
Surveillant de magasin de détail 2 salaries reported	$47,000 per year
Delivery driver 2 salaries reported	$200 per day

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