Great place to work but many high and lows - Crew Member Trader Joe's Employee Review

5.0
Oct 2, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Variety of tasks throughout the day depending on your abilities and work ethic. -If your willing to relocate and have a captain that knows good leadership and hard work you can move up to management pretty easily. -Have always been very fair in my reviews. -If you have a clear head, stay out of the gossip and drama, have a good attitide, working here can be pretty good.

Cons

-Quality of management is very inconsistent. You may have an awesome captain and team of full-timers and then when they start transfering people you may get a not so great team of managers and you'll be sctratching your head on how these bozos even got hired let alone promoted -For some reason TJ's loves to open stores in areas where the greediest, cheapest, and rudest, customers reside so difficult customer expriences is fairly common but you do have good ones in the mix as well. -As I stated above what really makes or breaks your exprience working here is if you have decent and competant managers so while working in one store maybe great the one in the next town maybe totally chaotic if the lunies running the asylum.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
May 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Great way to meet people, socialize, and learn customer service -Always tasked with different things every hour -Friendly crew who will always help you to learn and get better at your job -Get a slight pay raise every 6 months -No outside commitments and amazing benefits if you work full time (about 28 hours a week for every 6 months) -Will take time, but find your friend group, stay with them and have fun, you can't please everybody -Care for your body, do not overdo it with physical labor, its a retail job and you only have one fragile body for yourself, get help or insist about your pains

Cons

-Not many, unless you are stuck in a bad store with bad management -I had some good luck of working in 3 great stores, so YMMV -Sometimes can get cliquey like you are back in high school -Getting promoted up to store management may involve buttering up and being a "yes-person" -Care for your body, do not overdo it with physical labor, its a retail job and you only have one fragile body for yourself, get help or insist about your pains

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