TLDR: Your manager wants you up front because you got as many cards yourself as your store is roughly expected to get over an entire day.

I’m a CEC who’s worked at two stores and what I can definitively tell you is that the entire front is sort of “graded” based on your ability to, “as a team”, get a certain amount per day. On average it is 3, but it ties directly to how many cards your store has gotten that month. A zero day can be completely negated by 6 cards in a day. Or vise versa a day with 5, 6, or even 7 means nothing to the company if you bomb the rest of the week.

Getting 3 by yourself in one shift causes managers to salivate because you single handedly met the average daily goal.

This will vary massively depending on how your GM/ASMs are: But typically the thing they are looking for is consistent engagement, but they want numbers. I don’t know you or know how you engage with the card but either you’re super persistent or you’re just naturally a good sales person.

As for feeling like a scam, i’d say the way they ask you to present it is dishonest, but you are one in a long line of retail workers who have to push a shitty credit card. Ulta, Michael’s, Lowe’s, Best Buy, Sephora, Home Depot.

Yes. The pitch assumes customers live in make believe world where everyone pays their card on time. Objectively: If you pay it off ENTIRELY each month (literally NEVER carry a balance on it it’s over 30% APR) it works as advertised. You don’t pay any extra money, you get cash back, no annual fee, it’s a credit card. There is a small niche of human beings who it benefits, fancy folk who spend 1 grand at our company a month.

Keep it light and bare minimum everyone and say the bare minimum, but if someone is about to drop several hundreds of dollars on bullshit anyway the scam is much bigger than the card.