Are You Kidding Me? - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

3.0
Apr 16, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Quick advancment, Benefits package, steady work, and leadership training

Cons

Managers are required to work over 50 hours a week 6 days a week (most of the time 60 to 70) no over time, holiday pay or sick days given. If your sick they don't care. Get to work! Not enough labor hours to complete task and keep up model store standards or in most cases get to model store standards. Managers spend more time working the store than they do managing the store, leading a team or customer service. Managers get leadership training but have no time to practice it or no team to apply it to. Time lines on pogs and seasonal sets, astablished by corp. level people, are unrealistic, unattainable and in some cases ridiculous. Corp. office does not take into consideration each individual stores current situations and circumstances when assigning deadlines on task. District Managers have to many stores in their district to be able to give quality leadership which means they are just as over worked as the store managers. Let me stress the most important thing here again "NOT ENOUGH LABOR HOURS FOR STORES TO RUN EFFECIENTLY"

Explore other reviews about Dollar General

5.0
May 6, 2026
Anonymous freelancer
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great place to work at

Cons

Management wasn’t good all the time

1.0
Jul 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The job itself is easy. The cash register, stocking (especially the totes and dry truck) and cleaning are so simple however there are certain things that make it difficult, although the work itself is not (under the right circumstances.)

Cons

They never have enough people on shift so it’s always difficult to get things done. It seems like all the managers I know from the store I worked at and the surrounding ones are all so deep into drama it made me wonder if I was back in high school. Dry truck always seems to bring far too much and the stores are so little that overstock is a huge issue here. The reason I ultimately left was due to severe mistreatment and some safety concerns I had regarding some past experiences. I am very glad I left and I would not ever go back.

See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All