Not the same company I started with 7 years ago. - Store Manager PetSmart Employee Review

1.0
Jun 16, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pet Friendly, dedicated employees who are passionate about the health and welfare of pets. Regular customers and seeing their pets in store.

Cons

The company takes advantage of this passion and offers little support to store management in order to do their job. The cuts prior to the sale made it impossible to staff and run the stores. This was a very top down approach to leadership and showed that senior leaders were completely out of touch with the store environment. Expect to work 6 days a week as a Store Manager and Operations Manager. Grooming needs a major overhaul beyond just SMS, there needs to be real leadership development for the Salon Manager. Most salons that I worked with generated more in revenue weekly than most PetsHotels, yet the PetsHotel has 1 salaried manager, 1 assistant, and 1-2 leads. Whereas the Salon Manager is left by themselves to lead their team. The only support they can hope to receive is from the Store or Operations Managers who are already overwhelmed with autocratic tasks.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
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Pros

The staff care a lot and try their hardest but it leads to burn out and being taken advantage of by a company the does not care about YOU.

Cons

Poor management. No work life balance. Bad scheduling. Bad pay. No communication. Leads expected to work more than 10 hours a day during high volume periods, Be responsible for too many things. You run around like a chicken with it's head chopped off the whole time you're at work. Staff are snippy, and rude. A few are okay. Company has you working bare bones, and does not care. Pet parent's are weird, and I don't think have realistic expectations that the boarding facility is more like dropping your dog off at a dog shelter for a week while you go on vacation than a "fun time" for your dog. Dogs get fed, watered, pottied. If that is all you care about, then use the PetHotel. If you want your dog to have fun, and be out of a stressful environment (few dogs do well with constant barking and noise all day, plus being stuck in a cement run, thrown in with a bunch of other dogs who have never been properly socialized) just do in home boarding. I would never board my dog at a place like this.

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