If you have no where else to go Dollar General is the place for you. - Anonymous employee Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
Feb 22, 2011
Anonymous employee
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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Reasonable Pay Safe Clean Great opportunities

Cons

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2.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Pros

- The people I work with are amazing (not every DG is like that... in fact, few are.) - We are proud of our DG and we all work hard as a team to make sure our customers are happy and smiling. - I take pride in my customer service skills. I have people drive past 2-3 DGs just to come to mine, because they know my team and I will take care of them. - We have developed great relationships with the customers. I have even made some great friends. - You are never bored. There is always something to do. - The 401k has a decent match rate.

Cons

- There are not enough hours to get done with what DG Cooperate requires. - We work fast and hard, and we still cannot get done what they require - we just aren't allowed enough people and hours. - We all have great work ethic. We work very hard. We still cannot get it all done. We ask for more hours. We are usually denied. - Pay isn't good. It just isn't. - They say people are their priority, but they work their employees to the bone, and don't let them have help. - My boss probably evens out to making like $2/hour. Shes salary. She cares about her store. DG abuses the salary. What they ask her to do, she cannot physically get done, even if she divided herself into 3 people. I'd NEVER accept salary at DG. Never. - It is not a lazy problem or a scheduling problem. None of us are lazy. We are very hard workers. We push truck fast, keep customers happy. We were voted best store West of the Mississippi (we're in Oklahoma). We tell cooperate the negatives and what needs to change. They don't care and nothing ever changes.

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