Dollar General reviews

These negative reviews are true. I wanted to not believe them because i wanted to be a DM but the reality is that they are true and this company is horrible. Horrible health insurance premiums. Wish i knew about the cost before coming here. $80 a week. A WEEK!!! I wouldnt be surprised if DG pockets half of it. VERY LOW HOURS TO RUN A STORE. I got 140 hours a week and you must have 2 closers each day. So you are basically by yourself most of the morning. Don't believe what the DM says in the interview. Mine was mostly honest but didnt explain the crap show once you got in. Freight from years past in the backroom. TOYS GALORE on the skyshelfs and nothing you can do to get rid of them. They make you touch clearance 5 millions times and waste your time fiddling with it. Very low morale being a store manager. Wish i would've stayed at my previous job. Distribution center blows and sends you unnecessary freight and impacts your backroom/salesfloor. I dont honestly know how SM's survive in ghetto stores. I got one in a little town and it was still rough. Be expected to run the entire truck yourself and then when your done theres another! They only hire DM's outside the company because they dont want to replace SM's because turnover is so freaking high. They expect you to do truck/plan-o-grams/run cash register/new label changes/ check in vendors all by yourself. If you have a terrible crew then expect to be at the store everyday! (I had a terrible crew besides my ASM and one cashier) MANDATORY 6 day work week and 48 hours minimum across 6 days. Oh theres a call in? Guess your going in to cover and no day off. Oh another call in when you went in at 6am? Guess your working till close. 2 days you have to be at the store 2 hours before opening to do nones/tons or run truck. The company wastes so much time researching shrink on employee theft its ridiculous. Majority of theft is from the bottom feeder customer base. Oh boy if you are one hour over budget you get an ear full. Oh man that $7.25 is going to kill the company. They pay these poor cashiers minimum wage and brag about it and gives them 10 hours a week. Ridiculous.

Work-life balance is non-existent, company does not train it's store level teams for the job well, workload to staff ratio is unrealistic, low concern for staff and staff safety. Turnover is very high at all levels in the field.