Great Place to start managment career - Retail Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

3.0
5 Mar 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to make a start in managment. Very good chance to move up if your willing to work. Overall great to start out but not a lifetime career choice.

Cons

No personal life. Once you are a store manager you are expected to treat your store like a baby and work all the time to maintain it.

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Pros

Provided with everything you need to succeed

Cons

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1.0
23 June 2026
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Pros

You have an opportunity to create good good relationships with your customers.

Cons

There is no work life balance. If you’re a store manager you’re expected to be there 24/7 if necessary. You’re also salary, so you’re paid for a flat 40 hours but required to schedule yourself for a minimum of 48 hours. No holiday pay, no overtime. You have access to two types of bonuses but they’re IF you qualify for them. You get little to no support from upper management and constantly told you’re not doing enough. They don’t care if you’re having staffing issues and still expect you to get the truck completely worked in 2 days and the store to be 100% recovered daily, even if you’re alone. Then they’ll either look for ways to write you up to terminate you or push you until you quit.

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