Meijer reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(6,918 total reviews)
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Richard Keyes

61% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Meijer has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,918 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
May 29, 2011

More work and less help.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Meijer is a good place to work if you need a job.

Cons

Lack of promotion opportunities. Managers are hired off the street.

1.0
May 9, 2011
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Pros

flexible work hours, and if you needed hours, extra ones were usually available people were decent to work with for the most part, but many didnt pull their own weight

Cons

low pay, the store had fired all the cashiers that had been there a few years, and hired a bunch of new ones for minimum wage too many bosses, when i worked there, on an average day i had at least 4 different managers telling me what to do, and they never communicated with each other

3.0
Apr 30, 2011
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Pros

-Good co-workers -Open-door policy with management -Union job protection (provided you pay dues) -Somewhat flexible with times for breaks and lunches There are days where I enjoy it. It's not a terribly hard job, but you need a high stress tolerance, especially when it's busy. It's a high customer interaction job, and you need to know how to deal with people.

Cons

-Apathetic upper management (basing everything on a model, and not on how individual stores can work best. It's getting a little better, but still not great) -Crazy schedules (gets worse when departments are shorthanded [which is typical] and around the holidays) -Pay's not far off from minimum wage, and not based on performance, but seniority (one downside to the union) -Some poor workers not weeded out as quickly (another downside of the union) -Being held over past your scheduled time to leave (due to poor scheduling [it's not the managers that schedule, but the store directors, and they don't know what each department needs half the time! It's not completely their fault, but it is an issue]) -Not much opportunity to move up the ladder Overall, it can be really stressful, and can make you want to pull your hair out. It's an okay first-time job, but if you don't need it or can find something better, get out while you can.

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