Dollar General reviews

The pay is abysmal (at my location you get paid $10.50 /hr as a sales associate, which isn't great, but other locations have it WAY worse.) You will be with 1 other person (provided you're a sales associate) aka the keyholder. If you are a keyholder you will be alone if nobody can come in and help, and the hours are insane. I've not even worked for 3 months yet and I've seen 4 people get hired and quit. Our current staff is at ~5 workers including the Store Manager. You WILL get burnt out, especially if you're working 30-40 hours a week like I was. I've seen about half of my coworkers cry because of stress. When Fresh Truck gets here, it's like hell hath been unleashed onto our store for 3 hours as we try to man the front and get the perishables in. The machines like to go offline quite often and will need to be reset at LEAST 1x a week.

The pay is horrible for all of the duties they expect. You are alone in the store a lot of the time. If you aren’t buddies with the DM you won’t get higher positions. They allow managers to hire people in at higher pay than people that have worked there for years make. The yearly raises are a joke. As a Store Manager, you are required to work 6 days a week. Employees never get to enjoy their days off because they’re constantly getting called in to work. The company keeps adding more duties, while not increasing the hours allotted in your weekly schedule. Plus during the pandemic, while every essential employee company was paying their employees hazard pay or bonuses, Dollar General slapped their employees in the face with a joke of 1 bonus for about $200 the whole pandemic. ASM’s are required do the just as much work as the SM (if not more) but the SM is the only one who receives quarterly bonuses.