Petco reviews

3.0

36% would recommend to a friend

(6,865 total reviews)
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Joel D. Anderson

33% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Petco has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,865 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Petco 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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2.0
Aug 10, 2012

Total lack of business acumen

Recommend
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Pros

As a store manager, it is a very easy job compared to other retailers.

Cons

The company, at least in Indiana and Ky had zero focus on creating a customer base and driving sales and profit. There was no effort in trying to build up a strong team, the stores "just exist"

3.0
Aug 8, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

I had a few pretty decent store managers. Training was good, I learned quite a bit. If you like animals you do get to spend time caring for them and such.

Cons

I frequently had to do much more than my fair share of the work because many of the other employees were lazy, inept, or both.

3.0
Jul 29, 2012

Grooming assistant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-The Co workers are great and they know what they are talking about -Love pampering pooches

Cons

-We are in a NON investment store so we get looked over very frequently for better equipment for salon -Very little dogs plus very few people tip and those who do tip,people working ends up fighing over them -I was told I would be full time but magically I am cut down to maybe 36 hours. -Very little room to move to a groomer when you can't make the"NUMBERS" you will be stuck there forever it seems -You do feel like a number sadly. - I put so much hard work and effort into working, and lately it really makes me question why I push myself so hard because 7.25 doesnt cut it when you can not commission out like ever. I'm sure holidays you have a better chance of doing so but I can not wait twice a year to make money. - Store is understaffed so individuals have to help out on the floor "facing" products and when the truck comes and you have nothing to do we (grooming assistants) have to go out and stock shelves .That was not part of my job from what I was told when I was hired on. - Finally, prepair for the worse schedual ever for instance closing shift all the time since you are going to do the shift that no one want to, even though I requested not to be put on that shift when I went in for the interview, I magically ended up almost every night closing .

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