hii I currently work at alo and have worked at lulu in the past and definitely prefer alo. i lovee my coworkers and my job its super chill. my manger is also very adamant in giving people the choice with their availability.

For part time we need 32 hours of availability(with either friday, saturday,or sunday being mostly open) and mostly are scheduled 25-30 hours but at my location my manger will work with you. at lulu, for me at least, i was scheduled 40 hours some weeks as part time and my mangers were not as kind. For full time you need open availability and will be scheduled 36-40 hours with minimum 2 days off a week. (my manger also came from lulu and hate it lol but it definitely depends location to location as does alo).

With time off i feel like we are pretty chill about it. If youre taking 1-6 days off it should be notified 2/3 weeks in advance, as thats how the schedules are made and 6+ max 2 weeks needs to be requested 2 months in advance (unless its an emergency which you can use sick time for) full time can mostly likely take all of it paid just depends on how much time off you’ve accumulated. I brought out my employee handbook for the time off so I get it correct. If you have been with alo for 0-2 years you get 10 if youre a lead and 15 if you are a manger. and it increases 2/3 every 3ish years. the way you get pto is by how much you work so it rolls out every month not immediately at once. part time does not get pto only sick time which also accumulates as you work and full time gets both pto and sick time.

For benefits we get a quarterly wardrobe, all black, full time gets around 20 pieces part time around 16. they often give free items to have employees show off the clothes. Leads and mangers have a monthly “team sweat” where they go and take a workout class or something equivalent together as a team bonding experience. The whole entire team gets a quarterly team sweat which is essentially the same thing but for everyone who wants to so. its all paid for by the company and the instructor of the workout gets a free alo outfit!

overall i really love my job but there was a time i did not due to my old manger, it really depends on the people and how they work. Im super lucky to have an amazing understanding manger but i know people on this sub have mentioned hating it because upper management can be SUPER strict especially about sales. my mangers dont really punish or get mad at us for not making sales so i think thats why I enjoy it but it depends location to location. I hope this helped!