sales associate

retail sales associate

Foot Locker

Started with Foot Locker as a store manager where after 8 years of service I was promoted to a district manager in Louisiville Ky. I was also offered the rewarding experience of only 3 District Managers in the US chain to visit several stores in Europe for a month to train the sales teams and help improve sales. I worked with Foot Locker from 1988 until 2004. Foot Locker also believed in recognition. Each year store managers, store manager trainers, district managers and regional vice presidents were awarded as the best in their position. Before I was recruited by Gamestop I was a Regional Vice President in training. Hind sight is 20/20 because several of my store mangers that worked for me and I trained for their promotion to District managers went onto become regional vice presidents with Foot Locker. The siging bonus and numurous other offers Gamestop offered me I decided to accept. At the time the company was growing so quickly I felt I would certainly become a regional director. I also enjoyed working with the store managers and their staffs as well as the customers. I managed 28 stores while I was a district manager for Foot Locker. I believe now that Foot Locker was more likely to promote from within where Gamestop often hired external candidates to fill positions that I felt many of the exsisiting district managers and / or store managers should have had a chance at.

i worked at footlocker for two years. 
i loved working with the staff there. we got on so well. if you have a chilled, laidback and friendly personality, you should be good. i honestly made some really good friends over there - even so, management was not great. this is not at every store, i just wasnt very lucky. i honestly ignored catty comments and favouritism and other stuff like that but sometimes it really annoyed me. i was friends with my coworkers anyway and it was good because the customers that come into FL can be so rude and entitled. there is something so demeaning about someone forcing you to put the shoe on her foot (thats not part of our job) but they can get very aggressive and treat you like a servant. especially the kids department - oh my stay away from there. (they normally stick new people or in my managers case people they dont like there). end of year work party is always nice and the staff discount is pretty cool. they are aggressive about KPI's which is why everytime you step into FL someone is jumping at you trying to make you buy something. its really bad because they name and shame every week. i hated that. i honestly didn't care about KPIs but i also tried to make money where i could. the actual job in itself i didn't like but what kept me there were my friends/coworkers. i eventually left onto something better for me. i wouldn't stay here as a forever job but you do meet some good people

I joined Foot Locker with motivation and strong management experience, hoping for a supportive and professional environment. Unfortunately, the reality was very different.

There is a clear lack of support from upper management, poor communication, and constant pressure without proper guidance. Responsibilities are pushed down without the authority or resources needed to do the job properly. When issues arise, accountability is avoided and projected onto store-level management.

The workload is heavy, expectations are high, but the pay and recognition do not match the effort required. Instead of developing people, the culture often creates stress, frustration, and burnout.

Overall, this experience was a major disappointment. I would not recommend Foot Locker to anyone looking for a healthy, supportive, and growth-oriented workplace.

Being employed as a manager for the Foot Locker, and my first job in Australia, was both exciting and daunting.
Typical day started with opening procedures, morning coaching with staff. Check staff roster, and store preparation. E mails from HO, orders in the system and to do new ones. Make contact with regional manager.
Everyday was a learning experience, not so much with customers, but the company, and company systems, and organisational promotions. It was vital that all company procedures and promotions were to the `T`. 
Management were supportive, and especially HR. Plus, there was great communication between store managers. The company offered in house training on all aspects of management and store functions.
Hardest part of the job...? Nothing really. As head coach, i delegated as much as possible, and i had a very good crew that i could depend on.
I liked the work. I was learning something new everyday, and i had a little scope to try different promotional stuff in store, which gave the staff more incentive, and enjoyment, plus out store turnover was the highest it had ever been in that particular store!

A typical day started with cleaning the store, making sure the floors and mirrors were cleaning, dusting all shelves wiping over all surfaces.
Followed by shipping out stock as required and recieving, marking off and putting away any stock that had been recieved that day. Serving customers as they entered the store, often the store was quite empty and uneventful.
the people you work with 9 out of 10, were great people, easy to get along with, making the job somewhat more enjoyable.
Hardest part of the job definitely being the times when there were no customers nor general things to be done around the store.
Most enjoyable part of the job was the feeling of success when finalising a sale and even more so beeing able to help people that were after specific items due to specific needs.

I have worked for Footlocker for almost 5 years in multiple locations and roles. I have never had such a consistently terrible experience with upper management as with this company. Clear favouritism and constant gossip and miscommunication issues on all levels. No help in regards to coaching and development unless you get in a higher-up's good graces. It has made a place I used to love working at a place dread going anywhere near.

Also consistently getting paid incorrectly despite being on a full-time contract with little to no assistance in fixing the situation. The only reason to stay is the discount and you can get better at other workplaces.

my time at Foot Locker was short and fun however the management was horrible. I loved the team and the connections I made but I lost them all within a couple of days due to a misunderstanding the store manager was not willing to fix. generally speaking could take them down for what they did to me but at this point I have been through enough trying to sort out this situation on my own without any support from this company. it was deeply disappointing to see such a popular well known company through their staff under the bus they way they did without any thought or hesitation. This company is great for those needing a job and wanting work now. personally I wouldn't recommend it as a career. 

Very amazing place to work but new manager ruined everything became to bossy and started to bully everyone and most people left, hired new people to get rid of the old workers who put their heart and soul into the store and no one got any appreciation. Job is very good for uni students or people still in school, pay is very good can support yourself on the pay, managers are a hit or miss I’ve had some of the most amazing mangers and one of the worst!

Footlocker is a very tiring and fast paced job that required for me a lot of on the ball thinking, the hardest part for me with this job was definitely finding things in the storage compactors out the back, most customers think that we go and find the certain shoe straight away but it is very tough, and even tougher when you're customer gets furious when you cant find what they are looking for quick enough. The most enjoyable part is that it is a very chilled working place to be a part of, although it is upto you to make sure that you are working how your manager wants you too

Responsible for managing the day to day operations of the store, while developing and keeping my team highly motivated. Achieving sales and customer satisfaction targets and by launching initiatives and monitoring the progress of my team.
Through my time at footlocker i have learned manage a team and relate to all different people.
The hardest part of my job is that i always have to be on top of sales budgets, but i love a challenge !
The best part of my job is i get to Meet new people everyday.

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