Dollar General reviews

2.6

29% would recommend to a friend

(15,930 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 15,930 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Dollar General employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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16K reviews
2.0
Dec 18, 2025

Poor Work-life Balance

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Pros

Team was great, everyone was nice/helpful, leadership was supportive.

Cons

Expectations were unrealistic, difficult to set boundaries, amount of work for the amount of pay was not aligned. Each person gets assigned 3-4 regions, but reach region ranges drastically on how many stores they are over.

1.0
Dec 18, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Quarterly Sales Bonus, Annual Shrink Bonus, Annual Salary, company car and fuel provided, company phone, company laptop, printer, and tablet provided

Cons

Personal Safety, Employee Safety, inner city homeless trespassers, so many shoplifters, lmpd will only respond to emergencies, interface is useless, stores have 109-120 hours weekly on average, never enough hours for workload, rolltainers are dangerous, vendors are rude, little accountability in leadership, zero work/life balance

1.0
Dec 18, 2025

Never again

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Pros

Got experience multi-tasking and working in a fast-paced environment. Met a few members of the community.

Cons

The building was overloaded with freight, and I had a great team. It is impossible to keep up while maintaining the store's appearance and checking customers out. Meanwhile, in the summer it was 90 degrees in the building. An hour to put away milk, but there's no room in the back for it and no room in the front because the freezer was out. The smell of rotten milk is stuck in my nose.

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