Curious but does Walmart, Zellers, Shoppers, LD, etc offer any discounts to employees?
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Curious but does Walmart, Zellers, Shoppers, LD, etc offer any discounts to employees?
From Googling around: Wal-Mart employees get a 10% discount, Zellers 15%, Shoppers 30% with conditions...
^ Zellers employees only get 10% unless you've been there for more than 15 years - then you get 15% and after 20 yrs you get 20% :)
I believe shoppers gets 30%, but they cant collect the points if they choose the discount. Its either one or the other, according to a friend that works there.
I use to work for walmart. Yes walmart employees get 10% discount. They are given a card with their name on it, and it has their employee information programmed into it. That card is allowed to be used at any walmart in North America.
I miss my discount :(
Rexal offers employees everything at cost plus 3%. Makeup is super cheap as there is a huge mark up. As well as rexal brand items.
Superstore employees get a card that gives them an extra 10% off!
Rare for grocery stores to offere discounts, they say their margins are thin!
I worked for the Bay over Christmas one year, we got a 10% discount there and Zellers (I don't think we had Home Outfitters here then).
Interesting to know.
Will these stores allow coupon use with the discount?
Zellers now u have to get a credit card to get the employee discount, so its not saving ya money with 13 % intrest on the card, my best friend worked there
I have heard LD is 30%, and costco does not have a discount but you can have a free membership.
Those are some pretty lame discounts, way to boost employee moral!
well sobeys employees get nothing at all!!! apparently there used to be a discount... but some bad apples spoiled it for everyone else.... but that was before I started working there.....
The interest rate matters not if you pay it off! :) The Visa I have right now is over 19%, but we've never paid a cent in interest but have gotten lots of benefits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamaelmo
Yeah, I see where you're coming from. But I see where they come from too. Grocery stores especially are pricing things VERY close to cost to remain competitive these days. It's always been the way it's been, grocery stores work close to cost. To give employee discounts now often means selling things below cost to staff. If the discount is good, they're losing money. This is especially true when people buy things for their friends and family, not just themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss_April
I'm not defending big business, I don't work for them. But I know the costs of things are going up, and grocery stores especially need to trim to make money. Employee discounts would be the first to be trimmed or gone altogether. I worked for grocery stores for some years in the past, never got a discount.
Zellers/The Bay/Home Outfitters is 10%, and it can't be combined with any other discount. Eg. Student discount card, customer appreciation etc. It also isn't off of everything, there were certain exclusions.
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hey it could be worse.. home depot.. no employee discount!
^ Ahaha, I was going to say... I had a friend who works there and he jokes with customers when they ask if they could apply an employee discount.
The mark up for fast food must be ridiculously high as the employee discount is pretty darn good. Free coffee and pop(MacDonalds) while on shift 1/2 price meals if not more depending upon what manager is on duty at the time.(Tim Hortons)has free coffee and donuts while on duty. Not sure what the other discount is but it's pretty good too.
It is, most fast food and chain restaurants make most of their money on selling pop and french fries.Quote:
Originally Posted by momof3heathens
They way I see it, the more one would normally spend at a store, the lower the discount. So Loblaws/RCSS has 10% off (with exceptions), but employees are more likely to spend there regardless.
Clothing stores need to offer some form of a good discount, since, well the employees are expected to buy the clothes, and wear them on shift.
I work at a pet store, we get 30% off the store's pet food brand, 20% off supplies and all other holistic pet foods, and no discount on the commercial brands.
Yeah, fast food is marked up pretty high.
DH works at McDonald's, free drinks the entire shift, and used to be as much 1/2 price food as you want during a shift, but this month his store has changed it to 1 1/2 price meal per shift.
But he also gets a 50% discount Platinum card that he can use at any McDonald's for 1 meal and 1 dessert. So that's what we have on Friday's after shopping, lol.
Free coffee and donuts at Tim's while on duty? But they fire you if you give a crying child a timbit?? :icon_scratch:Quote:
Originally Posted by momof3heathens
At Rexall you can! I use my sisters discount with coupons all the time. Plus during 50 airmile bonus events I can get the bonus airmiles. However, my price before coupons has to be after the discount. It's a pretty good discount compared to other places.
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Originally Posted by Midnightly
They get paid more though
13% interest? I WISH! I have an HBC credit card for my employee discount, and the interest rate is 29%!!!!:shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mamaelmo
I use it only to get my discount, and pay it off as soon as my purchase has been paid for so I don't accrue as much interest...
Loblaws employees get 10% off with the employee card. Milk and eggs are not discounted.
Students working at Loblaws, who go to university, have their employee cards frozen, until they return to work and work a set number of weeks. Then they are unfrozen.
Student employees can give their parents the 10% discount if they present their card at the time their parents are checking out.
Loblaws employees getting the discount at another store that is not their parent store, must show photo identification.
Coupons can be used in addition to the discounts.
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Aww - a pox on the bad apples!! >:-(
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Originally Posted by Zonny
Zonny which Visa do you have? I have the CIBC cashback, and there are not very many benefits other than no fee for the card. I want one in which the travel insurance etc would be covered, but those sort of things all have fees. I HATE paying credit card companies ANYTHING. Yes, and I do pay off my card on the due date so that I don't have to pay interest on it.....
You get 30% off and you can still collect points except for the 20x the points events.Quote:
Originally Posted by miztia
Tims doesn't give free coffee and donuts while on duty. They get a 10% discount on or off duty.Quote:
Originally Posted by momof3heathens
My friend works at home depot, has for 4 years and has only got the minimum raises. He barely makes more than min wage right now after 4 years of working there. His friends all make roughly the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by KK7
Actually, it can be combined with any discount you want (ie: 10% off coupons, friends and family, etc...) since the discount is taken off from your HBC credit card (which you must use in order to receive your employee discount). There are exclusions, but they are very minimal.Quote:
Originally Posted by matrix82
Tim's sells franchises so it depends on the owner. When I worked there in university a few years ago, we got free coffee/steeped tea, donuts, timbits, and our break was 1/2 price. I can't remember what discount we got when we weren't working (I usually didn't go) but I'm guessing it was 25% to 50%.Quote:
Originally Posted by papillon