Meijer reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(6,938 total reviews)
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Richard Keyes

60% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Meijer has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,938 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Meijer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Apr 26, 2015

Rules never enforced, managers don't listen

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Pros

It's almost impossible to get fired, at least from the store I worked at. Job security seems to be very good. The only times I saw someone fired, it was for things that were way over the top in the company's eyes - coming in very drunk and trying to drive the forklift, climbing into the trash compactor while it's on, repeated theft of valuable items, etc.

Cons

The base pay rate is lower than Wal-Mart. That's really low. Based on all the other cons, I would say if you're willing to put up with them, go apply at Wal-Mart and at least get a better wage. The wage is livable for me since I started six years ago and am capped out. The managers have a very bad habit of interrupting when you raise a question or concern, and with a single exception, every manager at my store has been nothing but dismissive of even serious concerns, all the way up to theft of personal property, continual harrassment (talking about another low-level employee shouting and making threats at me for two years), retaliation for reporting violation of policy... even theft of low-value company property has been overlooked, not even investigated. The Silent Whistle system is a joke, nothing ever gets dealt with. As a side effect of this, even poor work ethic is overlooked. I suppose it's nice in a way, since if you're done with all your work for the day, you can screw off for an hour until you get to go home and no one will care. That helps reduce the stress of having to work with a sociopath. Cross-training is also very poor; stability in a job is good, but it also helps when an employee knows how several positions related to their own work. I've worked almost every position in the store over the past six years, except Deli, Service (thank god), and Electronics. I've seen a lot of the typical handoff crap where one person doesn't know how doing his job sloppily will affect the next person in the food chain, and this would be solved if they just once in a while had someone from one department cover a related department during some downtime. The recall system is the worst offender, one of those things every manager just hands down to me, the guy who became an expert in doing recalls as a result of being handed them so many times.

4.0
Apr 25, 2015

Store Detective

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Pros

Fun position! great entry level job for loss prevention or law enforcement

Cons

Usually work alone and can be boring

1.0
Apr 24, 2015
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Pros

pay check every week is nice

Cons

Management doesnt care about team members, if you are in one department, don't be surprised it you are pulled to every other one each day. Systems gets pulled on register, pulled to push carts, pulled to service desk, has to do SC's lunch, and then gets in trouble becuase they didnt their job

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