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      Meijer

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      Meijer reviews

      3.3

      51% would recommend to a friend

      (6,925 total reviews)
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      Richard Keyes

      60% approve of CEO

      50% positive business outlook

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      Meijer has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,925 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Meijer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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      7K reviews
      1.0
      Dec 4, 2011

      Bad Employer

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Meijer is not a bad place to work as long as you work in their hometown of Grand Rapids Michigan where everything is closely monitored.

      Cons

      The company promises to treat all of its employees with dignity and respect and expects its employees to do the same, but this rule only seems to apply to employees and management can treat people however they like. The company has an honesty policy and they expect employees to be honest at all times but again management is not held to this policy. The company comes up with programs to reward hard working employees but unless you work in Grand Rapids these programs only last a short time and then are forgotten. Most supervisors only reward their favorite employees and not always the employees that have earned it. Promotions are mostly given to people from outside the company or relatives of management. Hard work is rarely recognized or rewarded. In the distribution centers most equipment is shabby and probably close to unsafe. The company does very little preventive maintenance on the buildings or equipment, only fixing things after they break. The Union takes money from every check you earn and gives nothing in return.

      3.0
      Oct 27, 2011

      Be careful which Meijer you work for.

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Meijer starts hourly employees at a little bit over minimum wage, and now employees are offered health insurance right away. -Meijer isn't publicly traded, so instead of profit sharing or stocks you get a little extra money each quarter depending on how well the store did on sales, friendly scores, etc. There's a little more freedom there. -Meijer is usually pretty flexible with scheduling, if you have another job or go to school or have kids or something. -Meijer at least gives their employees shirts! I can't believe that Walmart and Target just let their employees wear whatever blue or red shirts they own! At least that's what it looks like to me. -There are some awesome team leaders at Meijer, the type you would probably follow to another department or store if you could.

      Cons

      The store I work at doesn't seem to have "employee morale" in their vocabulary. Meijer treats most, if not all, of their employees as expendable. This coming from a store that has a very hard time filling positions and keeping employees because of this exact attitude! Also, some stores not only have some horrible management, but horrible customers as well! We're understaffed and being yelled at and treated like idiots because our idiot customers feel the need to vandalize the store constantly. It's very demoralizing, and I'm sure it happens at plenty of other stores, but Meijer used to be able to handle these situations better. Like other stores, Meijer has slashed away at leadership and hourly workers and works the few they have left to death. When leadership leaves they're replaced with worse and worse candidates who treat their employees like garbage. Meijer says they have plenty of opportunities to advance, but it appears they're more likely to hire leadership from outside the store. There are some Meijers that are unionized, but they just seem to be a case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." They don't seem to be much better off than a non-union store.

      1.0
      Apr 7, 2012

      Retail is retail

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      Pros

      Its a job. With the economy as bad as its been atleast its a job. good place to work if you like working with the public.

      Cons

      No/Few Raises. Everyone Starts off at a couple cents above minimum wage and part time. Management does not have follow thru and easily get stressed over small stuff.

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