Let’s just say pushing their credit card is the first, second and third priority of an employee. Not talking customers into signing up for a CC leads to public criticism, ridicule, and sanctions. I could go on, but as part time job, there are much better places to work and probably with better pay.

Edited to add: if during the hiring process you were told their CC is your priority, that would be one thing but they don’t do that. In any event, treating your employees like dirt is unacceptable.

That's going to be true for just about any big corporate retail store. They make a big chunk of their profit off the fees and interest on their in-store credit cards (not to mention the likelihood of CC holders spending more in the store), so that's a major priority for their employees.


This was even true over 2 decades ago, back when I last worked retail at a mall clothing store in college. We were required to ask/push every customer to sign up, were penalized if we didn't, and there were rewards for the people who got the most applications each week/month. It was one of the main things that the secret shoppers would check for.

You’re just a number to a big employer. The last few years I was in motorcycle and car dealerships and the rise in corporate owned stores proved that beyond a doubt.

As a customer, I wish big corporate retailers realized that this crap is one of the primary reasons I do my best to avoid shopping in their stores. I don't blame the employees...I know they are forced to do it. But it's incredibly annoying when I get accosted three or four times per visit about signing up for a card that I have absolutely zero interest in when I'm just trying to pay for my stuff and get out.

I made the mistake of letting them talk me into signing up for one of those in-store drawings at Bass Pro one time. It took me over 2 years of having to be outright rude to people on the phone to finally get them to stop calling me. I didn't win anything either, lol.

True of J.C. Penneys in 1970&71, but I was only a summer term employee, told I wouldn't play that game.

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Fair points but abusing your employees because they aren’t meeting some quota management puts in place, is uncalled for. Sportsman’s Warehouse never asks me if I want their card and Scheels only asks while checking out and then they move on like they never even asked you. Cabelas probably would get more interest if they did a soft sell instead of the current live or die policy.

Look at Herters, long gone, then even K-Mart.

Just like the airlines, they make $$ with the peripheral charges & services.

I have nothing against Cabela’s, but they taint what they used to be. It may be 2 years since I’ve been in a store.

Hmm,

Most all of our customer facing employees are required to be pimpin' the app.

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
You’re just a number to a big employer.

Bingo!
You're doing something that your Big Employer doesn't like? Adios.
There's someone in line behind you that they will gladly hire.

Oh, you've been there for "X" number of years and are making $25 an hour?
The new hire is doing it for $18 at zero years. so Big Employer is making out.

If you were "special", you wouldn't be standing on the floor at a store. You'd be in a corporate office somewhere, and even then, subject to the chopping block.

Fleet Farm is the same way. its emphasized every day. And the credit card is downright predatory.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
Look at Herters, long gone, then even K-Mart.

Just like the airlines, they make $$ with the peripheral charges & services.

I have nothing against Cabela’s, but they taint what they used to be. It may be 2 years since I’ve been in a store.

Even the airlines have credit cards they pimp.

I miss the old Cabelas. We used to stop in Dundee on the way Up North every year. Now we stop at Jay's in Gaylord.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
You’re just a number to a big employer.

Bingo!
You're doing something that your Big Employer doesn't like? Adios.
There's someone in line behind you that they will gladly hire.

Oh, you've been there for "X" number of years and are making $25 an hour?
The new hire is doing it for $18 at zero years. so Big Employer is making out.

If you were "special", you wouldn't be standing on the floor at a store. You'd be in a corporate office somewhere, and even then, subject to the chopping block.

Exactly!

I applied for part time work both at a regional sporting goods store and a local single point gun shop. Both places offered me a job. LGS was less money, that’s where I chose to go.

Last two vehicle dealerships I worked at, one motorcycle and one automotive were both corporate owned. I had enough of the corporate b.s.

How many bosses ?
After 30 years in one aspect or another of retail,
I feel qualified to say.


The more bosses you have the worse you will be treated.

I worked for BPS/Cabela's for about four years, ending last February. I was a remote employee answering phones, taking orders fixing complaints. My experience was quite different. I felt the company really took care of its employees. One of the most generous employee discounts you will find. The owner sent a hand written note and gift to veterans on Veteran's Day, free tickets to concerts (I took members of my family to The Rolling Stones), free tickets to the NASCAR race at Bristol last year, bonuses for working extra shifts during Christmas rush. I've worked at many retail outlets during my 66 years, BPS/Cabela's is one of the only one I would go back to.

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Not talking customers into signing up for a CC leads to public criticism, ridicule, and sanctions.

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Fair points but abusing your employees because they aren’t meeting some quota management puts in place, is uncalled for.

I am, let's say, skeptical of this. Convince me otherwise with specifics.

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I could go on, but as part time job, there are much better places to work and probably with better pay.

If your job sucks, vote with your feet, I always say. I've done it (and they to me) lots of times.

I shop in the Bristol, TN BPS (they closed the Bristol, VA Cabela's) store fairly often. There is plenty of signage encouraging and incentivizing opening a BPS/Cabela's card, and I may have been asked a time or two at checkout if I wanted to open one. (I already have one, for over 20 years when the issuing bank was owned by Cabela's in fact, more on this later.) Not one time have I been pressured. They must be really failing at their job.

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posted by RogueJSK:
That's going to be true for just about any big corporate retail store. They make a big chunk of their profit off the fees and interest on their in-store credit cards ...

Maybe a distinction without a difference, but this is not an "in-store" card like those of, for example, department stores, large sporting goods retailers like Academy, etc. It is a Capital One Mastercard. (Prior to 2016 it was a Visa from World's Foremost Bank. The name should sound familiar.) It offers incentives like points to spend at Cabela's/BPS, lower interest on those purchases, and 12-month-no-interest-same-as-cash on purchases over $500. The additional sales, I'm sure, do account for the "big chunk".

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... not to mention the likelihood of CC holders spending more in the store ...)

No argument there. I was recently encouraged to make a large purchase that I'd been on the fence about by the aforementioned 12-month special financing, so I'm kind of living proof.

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Originally posted by egregore:

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Not talking customers into signing up for a CC leads to public criticism, ridicule, and sanctions.

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Fair points but abusing your employees because they aren’t meeting some quota management puts in place, is uncalled for.

I am, let's say, skeptical of this. Convince me otherwise with specifics.

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I could go on, but as part time job, there are much better places to work and probably with better pay.

If your job sucks, vote with your feet, I always say. I've done it (and they to me) lots of times.

I shop in the Bristol, TN BPS (they closed the Bristol, VA Cabela's) store fairly often. There is plenty of signage encouraging and incentivizing opening a BPS/Cabela's card, and I may have been asked a time or two at checkout if I wanted to open one. (I already have one, for over 20 years when the issuing bank was owned by Cabela's in fact, more on this later.) Not one time have I been pressured. They must be really failing at their job.

So you are calling me out for lying. What a piece of shiz you are. I'm guessing you work for Cabelas or some other box store in management or treat your employees like crap too. I'll simply say this, they list the employees who haven't brought in enough CC on a board for everyone to see. They personally call them out in front of everyone at store meetings. They get yelled out by the managers. Is that good enough for you??? Oh, and people are quitting right and left because of the work environment.

Sure seems like a risky place to be treating employees that badly.
Lots of guns and ammo just laying around...

First off, it isn't Cabela's anymore, it's now Bass Pro. As a result you cannot purchase primers in a 1000 count box, you have to pay for one 100 count tray at a time. They also make sure that if you are interested in purchasing a firearm it will take a minimum of 2 hours out of your day. Bottomline they are a Shithole and anti gun.

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You're 1000% correct about how long it takes to buy a firearm at Bass Pro. It's ridiculous.