Great Stepping stone to something bigger - Store Manager Dollar Tree Employee Review

4.0
Mar 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

It's a great way to learn valuable management skills. An ever growing company, with pretty stable future. Opportunity for growth for the most part. If you have a strong assistant manager, relatively easy job at times. The pay is okay, but for the amount of work required, could be better. Enormous opportunity to be creative in merchandising. Dollar Tree does not use planograms for the most part. No need to price items, everything is $1 or less. Always two people in building, versus Dollar General allowing managers to be alone.

Cons

No ability to terminate associates outside of having District Manager / HR approval. This means your assistant managers can walk over you because they have no fear. It's a decent amount of physically demanding work if you are in a lower volume store. Store manager does most of the stocking. Very high turnover in hourly associates, because of very low pay and no full time positions outside management.

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Cons

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Pros

My coworkers are kind and honest. The work is fun when it can be and some of the customers have a good spirit. When it comes to your break, you can at least afford your snacks/meals cause they're cheap. I find it fun to look into what my customers are buying. Managers are great and modest about their greatness. Would recommend to a friend because there are worser places to work at.

Cons

Some people have been consistently calling out in my area and I am burnt out from people who don't show up when they're scheduled to. If you're a cashier, you only get a ten minute break and it's not enough time for ramen. You'll feel lucky when you get 30 minutes for covering someone else's shift. Corporate is dramatic with some of their rules, like it's considered theft if you don't pay for your food, but you require a manager to be present in order to pay for it, and managers can be busy at times. Some customers can be quite impatient whilst making the line longer with demands, especially if they don't calculate their finances whilst shopping. Some of the technology is old and when it's broken down, I am told that I am not allowed to put "out of order" signs up. Some customers don't understand that they should never pay with a $100 bill early in the morning at any store. If you want to volunteer and do extra work without a payroll, you will be told that you can get written up for it because they have to pay you. The trainings on workday are obvious that they're old by many years and have not been updated to match new policies.

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