The good outweighs the bad - Store Manager Dollar General Employee Review

4.0
1 May 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay/benefits, internal promotes are possible for everyone, donations to local food pantries, tuition asst and grants avail, other perks/discounts, asst for staff in need of various types of assistance.

Cons

The DC's are consistently disorganized,varifying you work daily w/pics from your own phone, if you don't have the right team and those members doing the right jobs that fit the needs of the buisness it makes it hard and you've gotta be there a lot more, can be more than the required 48 hrs a wk, a lot is expected from store managers(team members too, but especially the SM) and the workload is atrocious at times, the benefits are expensive, finding a work-life balance is incredibly difficult, if you are not driven to succeed and don't want to work more than 48 hours a week this is not the job for you.

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5.0
6 May 2026
Anonymous freelancer
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work at

Cons

Management wasn’t good all the time

1.0
23 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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