Meijer reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(6,918 total reviews)
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Richard Keyes

63% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Meijer has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,918 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
Jan 17, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The only reasons to work for Meijer is that it is a job and they provide healthcare benefits if you can manage to keep your job longer than 90 days.

Cons

There are so many downsides to working for Meijer that I don't even know where to begin. In order to keep your job past 90 days, you have to apply to the corporate office for FMLA leave in case of any absenses or tardies. (Yes, it's true, one minute late constitutes grounds for a write-up.) After that, you have to figure out which managers to become "buddies" with because that is how you are going to end up keeping you job long enough to earn benefits. As far as promotions or growth within the company, I've been there nearly 10 years and I still stock groceries. I have applied for numerous other positions and since beginning there, I have received a 4-year college degree related to business and I am still treated as if I am nothing more but a mushroom. My ideas are not taken any more seriously than anyone else that is not related to the Meijer family. Their family seems to be the only one that matters in it's "friendliness and familiness" core values!

1.0
Jan 2, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Its a job. In today's economy you need to take a job whenever you can get it to bring in income until you can move to a better job. One thing for sure you will have fellow coworkers who hate the job right along with you!

Cons

Their stupid write ups for every little doggone thing. And I mean everything. I had a lines manager tell me and this is the God's honest truth. "It doesn't matter if you have a doctor's excuse or in the hospital or what if you are schedule to be here you must be here!" We had a cashier who feel ill, rushed to the hospital, missed work and got wrote up for it! Another one got wrote up for missing work for a funeral! Would you get wrote up if you died on the job? Probably!

1.0
Dec 26, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good locations, nice big stores friendly workers

Cons

Careers here are a joke unless you know someone. Hard to communication when the managers are not around or too busy bossing. When Fred Meijer retired and handled the reins to his sons it was a terrible mistake for they are going to run his store his vision into the ground. Store meeting that were just a piece of paper that everybody signs, break rooms in the back of the store so your break was mostly over by the time you get there.

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