Which Retail Chains Have The Best Employee Discount?
If you’re gonna hate your job, you’ve got to at least get something more than minimum wage out of it. For seasonal employment planning purposes, ranked from worst to best.
22. Home Depot
Employees receive no employee discount. :(
21. Walmart
Employees receive 10% off merchandise, excluding food, cigarettes, and sale items.
20. Trader Joe’s
10% off everything, plus free food at your shift on a semi-regular basis.
19. Lowe’s
Employees get 10% off Lowe’s merchandise. They can also participant in a discount program that offers a wide-range of discounts at other retail stores, restaurants, on flights and hotels, for cell phone plans, and more.
18. Target
10% off all merchandise. However, you can use a Target Visa card and if you accumulate enough points, they will send you a 10% discount card in the mail and you can stack the two discounts.
17. RadioShack
30% off all RadioShack branded products. 10% off everything else.
15. JCPenney
20% off most merchandise, 10% off small appliances and furniture. Plus they have special days where everything is 30% off!
14. Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s
20% off at both stores no matter which one you work for, plus certain bonus days where you can take an additional 20% off your 20% discount.
13. Sephora
20% off regular brand-name products, and 40% off Sephora brand products. Pictured above: the annual Sephora Employee Sample Sale.
12. Whole Foods
For everyone, 20% off of all purchases made at any Whole Foods Market location with a discount card you receive on day one. Spouses and “eligible domestic partners” may also receive the card. Whole Foods also offers a controversial optional program that can increase your employee discount up to 30% based on your BMI, blood pressure, cholesterol, and whether you smoke or not. Those showing “platinum” health will earn 30% discounts; “gold” gets 27% and silver 25%, while “bronze” wins 22% off.
10. Victoria’s Secret
20% off for your first two months, increased to 30% off thereafter.
9. Apple
On day one, employees are eligible for a 25% discount on the following products: iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. The same discount is also available on one each of the various iPod models, an iPad, Airport base station, Apple display, and a “reasonable quantify” of Apple accessories. There is a 50% discount on most Apple software and 10% on third-party accessories, both in “reasonable quantities.” Friends and family of an Apple employee are also eligible, limited to three products at a 15% discount. In addition to this discount, Apple employees are eligible for either $250 off the price of an iPad, or $500 off the price of any Mac model, usable once every three years.
7. Barnes & Noble
50% off of all cafe items, 30% off of bookfloor and miscellaneous merchandise, 20% off of anything within the music department. Does not apply to sale items.
6. Anthropologie
Every day: 40% on apparel, 25% on home, and no discount on sale items. Same discount at Urban Outfitters, Free People, and Terrain. They have special employee appreciation days where you and your immediate family and one other person (spouse, domestic partner, or bestie) can get 40% off anything and everything.
5. Abercrombie & Fitch
40% for full time, 30% for part time. Select outfits that they are trying to promote can sometimes be purchased for 50% off.
4. The Gap
Complicated discount system with discounts for Banana Republic and Old Navy as well, but the discount percentage varies from 30% - 50%, based on how much you’re buying and whether it’s at your home store. You get a discount card which includes discounts for spouses and domestic partners.
3. J. Crew
You can pick five full price items each month to get a 50% discount on. After that, full price merchandise is 30% off. Sale merchandise is 50% off. In addition to that, there is a list of slow selling / overstock items released each week that employees can get 60% off the retail price on.
2. Best Buy
After a three month probation period, employees can buy stuff at its wholesale cost + 10% markup, which often comes out to a deep discount, although starting last year the total discount was capped at 50% off.
1. American Apparel
50% off, across the board. Plus a $200 stipend to buy clothes with when you first start. However, it’s required that you dress in AA from head to toe every day.
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jamesc70 2 months agoAt Landry’s Inc., if you sign-up for the discount program, you get $4.50 (per paycheck) taken out of your paycheck. In exchange, you get 50% food and rides and 30% off retail. Personally, that’s the best discount I’ve had for any company. Go to Red Sushi or Saltgrass Steakhouse. Your bill is ~$175. Cut it to ~$87. But you have to tip from the original amount (~20%). In the end, you’re paying $122 w/ tip.
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aliciaw 6 months agoI’m an associate at Macy’s and our discount is 20% at Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s (and on average about 1 weekend a month we get an additional 10%) we also have what it called “Macy Money” it comes in denominations of $2, $3, $5, $25. Its exclusively for associates and is earned for opening store credit cards, signing cardholders up for program called Thanks For Sharing and just for good deeds, customer compliments or just asking for it. You can use it in conjunction with your employee discount AND coupons from the mail. I’ve gotten Calvin Klein and Coach bags that retail at $300-$400 for under $50. ALSO some brands within Macy’s have “specialist” positions in which you can receive bonuses and allowances from that specific brand. It’s pretty awesome, I’m seriously considering making Macy’s my career because I don’t want to lose all the amazing discounts.
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keith adkins 6 months agoYes at home depot we don’t get any discount in store, but we also have access to health benefits even as part time employees. We also have an employee only site that we can get discounts on tons of products. They also give us twice a year a bonus check and the amount is based on how well the store did with a minimum of a $50 check if your store gets 95% of sales plan. The last one the company sent out every store got money. So yes we don’t get a store discount, but they treat us well enough that we don’t hate the company.
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Rhodes Scholar 6 months ago
While the Best Buy discount may look good on paper, it really doesn’t translate all that well on “Big Ticket Items” like TVs, Computers and for sure, Apple products. (Where there isn’t any discount unless a new model is coming out.)
It IS fantastic on accessories and things like that.
Source: Ex BBY employee -
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jennm3 6 months agoI worked at JCPenney (in the salon) for a few months, including the holiday season. The 20% discount I had plus the awesome holiday markdowns meant I bought my family Christmas for cheap. I wish I had time to go work retail there during the holiday season because it’s a REALLY good company to work for.
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summerkindofgirl 6 months agoAmerican Eagle was great when new stock came in most of it was 50% off, unless it was marked on sale, or a BOGO thing. Extra 20% off of sale stuff. Best discount ever.
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intlwaters 6 months ago
At American Apparel you get two allowances a year beyond the initial allowance, one in spring, one in fall, based on your experience with the company, keyholder, cashier, manager, backstock, etc… along with the regular 50% discount on any item.
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Royalpeach 6 months agoThe Gap inc stuff is off. All gap employees get %50 off all full price items and %10 sale items at GAP and BR and %25 off full price and %10 off sale items at Old Navy
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