Meijer reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(6,925 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 6,925 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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7K reviews
1.0
Oct 9, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule: Meijer work schedules are extremely flexible so much so one never knows what days and what hours from week to week you are working. Oh and if you like being scheduled for meetings on your day off you will love working at Meijer.

Cons

Management: totally lacking in leadership, people and management skills. An example, the meat dept.’s hot dog and lunch meat wall normally has one full time person working 8 hours a day 5 days a week to keep it stocked. The other day that person was off the first two day of the week, the store director personally came over and ordered two of us to have the wall completely stock in 15 minute (to stock it after a weekend usually takes a person two days). He had some big wig coming in and wanted to look good. One of our more benign store directors actually rolled up her sleeves and help stock. Now first off what he got out of this order was two upset employees and secondly our motivation to do a fast efficient job was definitely not there. So what he got were two employees who just crammed and jammed product anywhere and everywhere and who also went into “Slow Motion mode”. Apparently Meijer management has the mindset of the 1900’s when corporations believed that workers were “Disposable Tools”, well just because we work for minimum wage and are subject to the whims of management does not mean we are “Meijer slaves”! We have been told at our Meijer “Friendly Meeting” that if you don’t like working a Meijer there’s the door, we have plenty of people waiting to come in (real friendly). This may be a family owned and run corporation but it certainly is not family friendly.

1.0
Oct 8, 2013

Great place to work!, nah just kidding.

Recommend
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Pros

It's a job with pay. Hours are somewhat flexible, but can change with little notice.

Cons

Just above minimum wage pay. Little or no chance of advancement without a ton of sucking up to the right people. Part-time hours are just low enough to not qualify for unemployment should you lose your job. Company values are lies, you are NOT part of the Meijer family, you are an expendable asset at the mercy of the general public and whatever store leader/manager who happens to be in a bad mood. Working with the public; dealing with very self-entitled people who love to stretch the line of "The customer is always right." But that is not really the company's fault, just goes with the job.

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