TJs - Anonymous employee Trader Joe's Employee Review

5.0
12 Oct 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

great benefits including paid time off, pension plan, health, vision, dental, AND counseling if needed. We get an employee discount. Product samplings - this includes wine, beer, and food tastings. Great co-workers (usually). Schedule flexibility. And decent pay (for entry level position in retail industry)

Cons

very typical of the industry and needed, but they move full-time and management around a lot. You have a great manager, then all of the sudden you have a new manager who is the complete opposite and doesn't fit with the store "personality". Going from a manager who gives praise and compliments all around to a manager who micro-manages and doles out critiques for every little tried and tested method can be a bit bothersome.

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5.0
30 June 2026
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Pros

fun place to work part time

Cons

it can be very exhausting

4.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Great way to meet people, socialize, and learn customer service -Always tasked with different things every hour -Friendly crew who will always help you to learn and get better at your job -Get a slight pay raise every 6 months -No outside commitments and amazing benefits if you work full time (about 28 hours a week for every 6 months) -Will take time, but find your friend group, stay with them and have fun, you can't please everybody -Care for your body, do not overdo it with physical labor, its a retail job and you only have one fragile body for yourself, get help or insist about your pains

Cons

-Not many, unless you are stuck in a bad store with bad management -I had some good luck of working in 3 great stores, so YMMV -Sometimes can get cliquey like you are back in high school -Getting promoted up to store management may involve buttering up and being a "yes-person" -Care for your body, do not overdo it with physical labor, its a retail job and you only have one fragile body for yourself, get help or insist about your pains

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