Company Profile

Company overview

Website

Rays

Industry

Specialty Retail

Primary location

751 Gympie Road, Lawton, QLD, Australia

As Australia's largest outdoor entertainment and camping leisure retailer, Rays offers families everything they need to enjoy the outdoors from the backyard to the bush. Through its network of more than 50 stores across Australia, Rays has a loyal customer base who enjoy the brand’s vast range of camping gear, tents, outdoor furniture, BBQs, kayaks and apparel. In 50 years, Rays has grown from a small family run disposal store in Geelong, Victoria to a presence across five Australian states with plans to continue this national development in the future, across Australia and New Zealand. Rays is part of publicly-listed Super Retail Group, one of Australasia’s largest and most successful retailers, with more than 640 stores and annualised turnover in excess of $2 billion.

Reviews overview

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What’s it like working at Rays?

AI summary of recent reviews

Rays offers a positive workplace environment characterised by supportive team culture and friendly colleagues. The company provides excellent training opportunities and attractive staff benefits, including generous product discounts and recognition programmes. Employees particularly enjoy working with the diverse range of outdoor and camping products, creating an engaging retail environment.

However, there are some aspects that can be challenging for staff. These include the learning curve associated with the extensive product knowledge required, concerns about upper management decisions, and the nature of casual employment with variable working hours. Some employees also note that maintaining work-life balance can be difficult due to scheduling expectations and availability requirements.

Recent reviews

5.0

Sales Assistant

Nov 2019

1 to 2 years in the role, current employee

My time at Rays was one to remember. It has easily been my favourite job where I have made friends and always had plenty of shifts.

The good thingsGreat people to work with and an overall fun job.

The challengesLearning more and more about all the different products that they have to offer which is fun but challenging at the same time.

2.0

Shift Supervisor

Nov 2019

3 to 4 years in the role, former employee

Poor working environment

The good thingsThe people of worked with

The challengesThe poor upper management, based on seniority not skill many managers promoted based on time within the comoany.

4.0

Sales Associate

Jul 2019

Fantastic business to work for, loved the products & despite the many changes in 13.5 years while working for the company i always enjoyed the people and culture

The good thingsRegular staff training Location close to home Staff incentives when purchasing the products The people

The challengesHead office opportunities were based in QLD Casual work was scarce during off seasonal periods

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