You will never advance in the company, EVER, many people at my store have been there for well over a decade and are still part-time, and will always be. These people are good employee's, they understand their job, and are loyal, yet their years of service are completely ignored. All service department supervisors at my store are part time, you cannot make a career out of working at Meijer. There is no motivation to do any more than the bare minimum, you will never get promoted, never get full time, never get any sort of recognition for going above and beyond. My advice for those who work there would by to look at it as a temporary job after highschool and before graduating from college, and to not put any real effort into your work, because as stated before it won't make a difference.
Management always stresses the importance of customer service, yet never provides the means for employees to provide it, i.e. adaquate staff. We are constantly short staffed and this has been a reoccuring theme in my 10+ years there. Store management is only allowed a certain amount of hours for labor per corporate, which is rarely adaquate for the buisness we generate. More often than not you will see team members from various other departments (whom are already short staffed) filling in for the critically short staffed cashier area. As a result customers can not find assistance in any departments, then have to wait in long lines at the check out lanes, are provided with less than ideal service by someone from another department running the check out lane, and god forbid there is a price discrepancy they have to wait even longer in line at the service desk because 90% of the time one or more of the service desk clerks are running a check out lane.
They are also in the beggining stages of eliminating any benefits for part timers. When any employee averages over 24 hours a week they are offered health care and vacation/personal days. Due to the affordable health care law which mandates all employees getting atleast 30 hrs per week receive benefeits, Meijer is capping part timers to 24 hrs or below so they can stop offering those benefits to most employee's. Of course when one considers the fact that in the past they have always offered those same benefits to workers receiving less then the 30 hrs the law mandates it becomes apparent this is another way they are screwing over their employees to save a buck. It would be easy to understand wanting to save a buck if times were tough, yet Meijer inc. has been gloating about their near record profits for the past 3 or 4 years.
