Dollar General reviews

2.6

29% would recommend to a friend

(15,911 total reviews)
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Todd Vasos

31% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Dollar General has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 15,911 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Dollar General employee rating is 26% below average for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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16K reviews
3.0
Mar 2, 2011

ok

Recommend
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Pros

Growth potential and recovery proof

Cons

No personal time, only one day off, and salary is not great when you balance the hours actually worked.

1.0
Feb 27, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Health insurance. Paid on time weekly.

Cons

Pay. Matrix/ manager scheduling makes for very unstable hours. Have been given just under 40 hours when I was hired to be part time. Am unable to have life outside of work. Was told I had to spend night in store to get backed up stock room emptied, or lose my job. I was there from 5:30 that evening till 4:00 am next morning. Stock room stilll a mess. One employee refused to come in and was not fired... but others were expected to come in. Its seems as though its run without any concern for anyones time. Not very rewarding when you work your butt off and are'nt given kudos but if you slip-up you can expect to be chewed out.. I pray not everyone has had same experience.

1.0
Feb 22, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

You get to meet really great people, via customers. You are never, ever left with nothing to do, especially if you are a cashier.

Cons

You rarely get a day off. They will make you work 6 days a week, but only bring you in for 4-6 hours at time, and make you take a lunch. There is no such thing as weekends off and requesting a day off is harder than parting the red sea. The pay is insulting and good luck getting appreciation for anything that you do. For everything you do right, you get a list of ten things that you didn't do. Cashiers have to run register, stock, clean, greet everyone that walks in the story, plus straighten shelves at the same time. Managers make 15 cents more than cashiers with 20 times the responsibilty. This company doesn't pay you for anything, I'm actually surprised that they don't charge you for being there. Instead of fixing stores, they let them fall apart and just build new ones five minutes down the road. Instead of promoting the people they already have, they hire new people off the streets for managment jobs so even if you get promoted, you have no store to belong to and you have to travel from store to store, depending on where you are needed that day. Cashiers are not allowed to count down their own drawers, so if you are short, you have no way of knowing if you were actually short of if the money was stolen. The rules are absolutly rediculous. They is no way to actually follow them and do your job. Cashiers can't go anywhere in the store where they can't see the front door, so going down any aisle is not allowed, but yet they expect you to stock and clean down every shelf. They use you until you get sick of it. The turn over rate is rediculously high. It's not worth it, at all. I think this company should be ashamed of how it treats their employees.

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