Hardest you’ll ever work for the lowest you’ll ever be paid - ASM- Assistant Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
Dec 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fantastic job security because no one wants to work here, for many, many very good reasons.

Cons

Almost everything else. The company has zero consistency, and does not appear to be serious about improving anything at all. At this point it’s more of a ponzi scheme. Their same-store year-over-year growth is around 1%, because when you only build in small towns that do not grow in population, your stores’ customer base never increases, but to attract investment you must show growth. This is why they keep building new stores. So they need the investment to build stores, but they need to build stores to show growth to attract investment. All this means is this company is a “growth” company and not a “retail” company, meaning they do not care about their stores at all beyond the first year, which means they do not care about their employees’ wellbeing at all, so much so that they treat employees as an expense they’d rather not have.

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5.0
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Pros

Benefits, Team setting, pay, improve

Cons

hours, long shifts, hard work

1.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There will always be Dollar General stores

Cons

- Leadership is unclear, unfocused, unwilling to provide information, or support. It is all about their ego, being "right", and the good ole boys club. - Leadership is very performative and do not actually care for their employees wellbeing. They are looking for robots without lives. - Feedback is considered wrong and if you do not 100% agree with everything they say, you will be treated as though you committed a crime. They are interested in yes men only and will find a way to push employees out regardless of the validity. - Work life balance does not exist and org policies only apply to those that they like. They've chased all of their top talent away with terrible changes and framed it as a perk we asked for. - Every conversation, speech, memo, and email is fake and performative. They do not live what they say. - They copy every other retailer, are stuck in the past, and DEI was quietly eliminated to avoid the backlash like Target. - Facilities are outdated, broken, and cannot support the volume. If you like disgusting shared spaces, fake perks, and talentless leaders, this place is for you.

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