Grocery Outlet reviews

Extremely uncompetitive pay and benefits. Owners rely on secrecy so others won’t speak up about unfair pay or lack of bonuses. For example, owners have repeatedly asked to not share personal compensation with other employees in one-on-one conversations. Starting pay is minimum wage. Department lead starts (seemingly) at $18.50/hr. Store manager makes approx. $22.00/hour (this is the highest position). Owners will progressively try to stack more work or responsibility on employees without wage increases. Apparent lack of communication with co-owners (married couple) that creates tension and unnecessary difficulty for employees. Biggest obstacle to doing any task at this job tends to be one of the owners. Department leads have a weekly check-in on their department’s performance. This isn’t a con by itself, but it was discovered through fact-checking that the owners either lie or consistently misinterpret data for their assessment of certain departments. This causes frustration and undue need for improvements in areas that are actually meeting or exceeding standards. This may even “justify” their lack of raises (but there is no direct evidence of that). One owner is very ‘by the book’ and the other owner is not. This goes hand in hand with the previously mentioned lack of communication between them. One can easily find themself in a position where completing a task by one owner’s standards lands you in hot-water with the other owner.

Not enough room for growth