Great Clips SUCKS!

I am not talking about the service or the haircuts you get at Great Clips that suck. I am talking about their Corporate greed and lies when it comes to their employees and management personnel.

You may think that I'm just another disgruntled ex-employee but HA! I have never worked for Great Clips and I don't do hair. BUT, my ex-wife has worked for them for over 10 years. She has managed shops, opened shops and gone into shops to clean up and streamline the operation. And she gets treated like shit by Great Clips.

Their corporate website is so full of shit it is almost funny. It describes how all stylists will attend a special 3 day training session, presumably at their corporate offices in Minnesota. What a joke. Their is no training unless of course you would like to pay your way to Minnesota, get yourself a hotel, pay for your own meals and then get yourself back home. All at your own expense. So the offer of trailing is nothing but a lie.

A large portion on their website is dedicated to Franchising which is their bread and butter. Like I said previously, I have been through a lot of Great Clips franchises and have not seen any of those Great Clips stores stay open for more then a couple of years maximum. It's not that the Franchisees can't make money at the stores because I know they can, especially with a good manager, but then Corporate comes in and charges the poor Franchisee an arm and a leg for supplies (which you must purchase from them). I understand that the Corporation is in business to make money but if I can see that the Franchises are never successful long term, then why can't they? The answer to that is that they do see it, they just don't care. You see, they make their biggest chunk of money at the onset of the Franchise. It's like buying that new car and once the ink is dry on the contract, you are fucked. Just try to get them to pay attention to you now. They chewed you up and spit you out. Great Clips for Hair is the Used Car lot of the Hair Cutting Franchise world.