Hard work and mentally depressing. - Prepared Foods Team Leader Giant Eagle Employee Review

1.0
Oct 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Pay and benefits are ok.

Cons

* Fresh Group leads are driving this company to the ground. Sitting in the cafe for a 2 hour lunch and walking around clueless. * Can't get promoted unless you know someone or related to someone. Pure talent and hard work gets you no where. * At the end of a 9 or 12hr day you still are made to feel like you didn't do enough. * Lowering prices is great for the company. But lowering and under staffing to make the bottom line is not fair to the ones who are in the stores. We need more workers not more management!

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Generally a good group of people. Work itself isn't terribly hard. Insurance is nice however, the pay is poverty wages,

Cons

Pay is called "competitive" It's competitive in the sense they pay dollars less than their competitors. You will be working solo mostly. There is zero payoff for doing a good job. Raises exist once a year set by union. These raises do not keep up with inflation. ALL PRODUCTS ARE 15-30% more expensive than other stores. Almost no one can afford to shop here that works here. If they do shop here they are paying between 50 cents to dollars more per item. The store is literally ripping off customers and workers. Work is do'able and can be completed if you bust your butt for a bit. The pay off? None. There's no raise, no bonus, they don't remember it for future raises. Working full time and getting between 370 and 500 a week is not livable. They talk about community helping which they do however its the cheapest way to pretend to care vs paying people who work there in the community more so there would be LESS people in need, No sense of purpose.

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