Trader Joe's reviews

They cut your hours down to the bare minimum once you are on insurance and you'll be getting just under full time most weeks. Once you have a few raises under your belt, (they promise two a year with good performance,) or are on benefits you will see your hours fall while they are still hiring new people at the lower rate if pay. If confront management about it they will deny everything. They will say you need to open up your availability to more nights and weekends but it's all lip service. And really fir minimum wage you shouldn't have to be available 24/7 Youll start getting bad reviews and denied raises without warning. Everyone will act like you're doing great and then suddenly there are complaints on your formal review eggregious enough to warrant denial if raise with no warning. Bottom line:it's a terrible place to work and you'll barely be able to pay your bills. All of the old timers there will tell you it's lost its soul

As a TJ's "long-timer", I have watched this company grow from about 100 stores to over 400, and it is not immune to growing pains. With a small home office on both the East and the West coast, the demand for corporate assistance and intervention, in stores, is beyond what the company is capable of handling. Many cases of misconduct go unresolved. Pay raises are fewer, and the internal feedback is limited to those times. Continued education and training do not exist at my current store. The size of your region will severely limit your options for upward mobility unless you are willing to move. Training for supervisory positions, unless adamantly monitored by you WITH your captain's support, do not move along at the speed at which they were intended to, and you can fall behind in training for years. Trader Joe's has gotten stale, and is now subscribing to the same corporate rigmarole as much of the Western workforce has.