Dollar General reviews

2.6

29% would recommend to a friend

(15,910 total reviews)
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Todd Vasos

31% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Dollar General has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 15,910 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Dollar General employee rating is 26% below average for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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16K reviews
1.0
Oct 21, 2013

One big mistake, former Store Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can choose your own employees.

Cons

When the company is sending emails out to post good reviews on here, you know how horrible the company really is. Working for Dollar General is not worth it, they pay the lowest in the industry. The store Managers work 60-90 hours a week. Your starting pay is $30,000 more if you go into a higher volume store. Your health suffers, your family suffers, you have no life outside of work. You can never make plans, they never work out because you are on call, someone calls off, you are normally the one who works the shift. The expectations are way out of realistic goals. The turnover rate is so high, for management and associates. You cannot keep employees because the pay is so low and the work is too much for the employees. Corporate does not care if you are sick or are working a open to close back to back sometimes a 5 or 6 am to 10:30. If your assistant manager or lead quits or pull 3 or 4 open to closes a week. Now people are posting untrue posts on here that are all lies to get off the worst to work for list. Come on if it was a good company to work for, they would not be doing this. THIS NOT A GOOD COMPANY TO WORK FOR!! The work you to death, just look at the Store Manger when you walk into a store- they looked drained, stressed, like a truck just ran them over. Been there and would not wish it on my worst enemy! I am healthy again, I have a life again, I enjoy life and I am not angry anymore or stresses out.

5.0
Oct 11, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Room for career advancement. Pay is good. Company will promote you and train you if you show potential.

Cons

Give more training hours for managers and associates. Payroll could be better.

5.0
Oct 10, 2013

Love it

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Room for promotions, work with great people, and assisting customers with great service. I have seen the company grow over the years.

Cons

Work a lot of hours, not enough payroll to keep the store going to it's expectations as a manger. Also hard to maintain shrink which is very important to my whole team with hours dropping every week.

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