Boscov’s Beaver Valley

I always find awesome sales here! It’s just your basic department store like penny’s or Macy’s but there’s always some sort of great deal that you can find. I love their juniors department and their handbag collection is awesome too. They also have an awesome candy counter upstairs with surprisingly delicious fudge and chocolates. This is always one of my stops when I end up at the beaver valley mall and honestly one of the only good stores left here.

Good store all around found what we needed but there was one worker he was rude to the other workers and he tried to scam my family his name we couldn’t find out but he was tall male scruf beard and short hair and real thin do get checked out by him

One word to describe this place: Messy.
This is not your typical department store, that is for sure. It is cramped. Hell that might even be an understatement. I came in here to browse and that was hard to do. The racks are so close together that it is almost impossible to look at and item, especially if there is someone else nearby. Not to say that they don’t have a lot of merchandise here, because they do. However, the way they have this set up is mind boggling.
The store has two entrances from the mall itself. One is the typical entrance by the perfume counter and the other is what I am guessing is their seasonal department. The odd thing about this is that the men’s department circles around the seasonal and if you want to keep going in the men’s department, you have to bypass grills and patio furniture to do so. I actually got frustrated and left.

LOVE BOSCOV its like an affordable MACYS they have cheap stuff mixed with more expensive clothes. HUGE SELECTION CURTAINS, bargain tables with sheets, table runners, placemats, napkins, rugs etc… HOLIDAY DECOR MARKED DOWN 80% after HALLOWEEN/​Thanksgiving/​XMAS/​EASTER/​4^th of JULY etc… cute stuff. The expensive items are major appliances, they charge for delivery and some womens clothes/​shoes are expensive. BUT THEY HAVE G8 SALES.

It’s crowded here kids. You have to suck it in to make it in between sales racks and sometimes it’s worth it and sometimes it isn’t.
Today it was worth it. I scored some nice fleece shirts for 5 dollars a piece. Softer than the stuff Columbia sells.
They have their own charge card here and the associates try to cram it down your throat every time you check out. You supposedly get a discount if you use it. They sell cosmetics here, mens, women’s, and children’s clothing.

We got up to that altar of sugary excess known as the Boscov’s Candy Counter this morning and were treated some of the most obscenely delish rocky road fudge in recorded history, all of it made in house. The rest of their candy is made by Asher’s (which I shall review) and Godiva among others (I think?).
I need to come back to watch them make it… at the candy counter if you can believe your eyes (the pot is on display). A garish exhibition it must be. Confectionery burlesque?
P. S. All of the people who work at this Boscov’s are very friendly and helpful. This is especially true with the fellow who sold us the candy. I’m rooting for Boscov’s to survive the retail wars.

Let me start off by telling you what this chain has that most other chains do not offer: a toy department, candy counter, LAYAWAY, and FREE GIFT WRAPPING service at the customer service desk. This store makes its own famous fudge right there at the candy counter.
This is one of the very few family owned private department store chains in the country and Mr. Boscov Sr even came out of retirement and invested HIS OWN PERSONAL MONEY into the company to save it when they declared bankruptcy a few ago. That is unheard of today. When they closed a hand full of stores, Mr. Boscov himself made a genuine teary statement to the employees and offered then positions in other stores that remained open. Thus the 5 starts I give it.
One thing that customers need to understand, employees are assigned to a department, they DO NOT generally float all over the store and learn each area (there are a few that do this, but not many). A register is located in each department and an employee puts out the stock for that department, straightens, and runs the register at the same time. They DO NOT stand behind the register all day; they even get reprimanded if they are seen standing behind the register if there are no customers to serve. This is how they are able to learn their product and better serve the customers. But that also means they may not know what brands a different department carries. So just walk over to the men’s department and look instead of giving the lingerie lady problems if she doesn’t know if there are Docker’s shorts in men’s or not.
I worked here for a total of 4 years and while the pay sucked, the company is actually great! I would go back to work for them in a heartbeat if I needed to.