Grainger reviews

In order for a promotion you must know the "right people". They will hire managers who only do as they are told. Basically puppets to upper management. These managers don't push back to to stand up for their employees. Ultimately, the employees looses all respect. Reason being they don't have a clue how to effectively manage and motivate employees.

The Grainger way is the Grainger way. Self awareness is improving at the leadership level, but they can be slow to change, and heavy handed when they do change. Company is HQ in the Midwest, so values can be out of sync with the coasts. Lack of geographic compensation differential is an example. Increasing price transparency via on line vendors is forcing pressure on Grainger's tiffany price model.