While an employee of Aaron's Sales and Leasing, I experienced some bad ordeals. I am African American. I was the best performer in the region. I met my numbers and goals at the end of the week or by the end of Saturday.
In the beginning, everything went smoothly, and it was fun to work there. Several months went by, same old same. The company was opening a new store and no blacks were considered. Instead they hired a fry cook from a restaurant who had no experience in sales or collections. The issue came up again and the same incident happened: they promoted a sales manager who had been with the company for just 4 months. No matter what, no blacks could get promoted to GM. This is an ongoing situation at Aaron's. This company does not hire black sales managers or blacks in their collections departments. If any of the stores employ blacks, none will advance to general manager. There are racists in the company. I have been told, even by regionals at the time, that black applicants' applications are shredded or thrown away. The North Charleston store is all white except for the product techs.
If blacks cannot advance, then why should black consumers shop at Aaron's Sales and Leasing? There are many racist incidents at Aaron's concerning blacks in South Carolina. Aaron's should pull out.
Summerville store, West Ashley also.
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