Company expects to much with very little payroll - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

1.0
Sep 14, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Growing company, easy to run a store

Cons

Employee turnover, to many tasks to complete within required timeframe, not enough labor hours=employee turnover, Store Manager getting burned out, and poor employee morale. When you have shrink problems, their answer to everything is "your employees are stealing" yet there is no proof to back that theory. receiving procedures of truck deliveries need to change. There is no possible way to tell if you are getting shorted merchandise when deliveries come in under current recieving procedures. Company expects Store Manager to work 6 days per week, they say it is 5 and a half, If I am driving to the store 6 days a week, I am working 6 days a week, not 5.5. They like to sugarcoat everything to make it sound different and better that what it actually is.

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There will always be Dollar General stores

Cons

- Leadership is unclear, unfocused, unwilling to provide information, or support. It is all about their ego, being "right", and the good ole boys club. - Leadership is very performative and do not actually care for their employees wellbeing. They are looking for robots without lives. - Feedback is considered wrong and if you do not 100% agree with everything they say, you will be treated as though you committed a crime. They are interested in yes men only and will find a way to push employees out regardless of the validity. - Work life balance does not exist and org policies only apply to those that they like. They've chased all of their top talent away with terrible changes and framed it as a perk we asked for. - Every conversation, speech, memo, and email is fake and performative. They do not live what they say. - They copy every other retailer, are stuck in the past, and DEI was quietly eliminated to avoid the backlash like Target. - Facilities are outdated, broken, and cannot support the volume. If you like disgusting shared spaces, fake perks, and talentless leaders, this place is for you.

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