Bad Employer - Anonymous employee Meijer Employee Review

1.0
4 Dec 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Meijer is not a bad place to work as long as you work in their hometown of Grand Rapids Michigan where everything is closely monitored.

Cons

The company promises to treat all of its employees with dignity and respect and expects its employees to do the same, but this rule only seems to apply to employees and management can treat people however they like. The company has an honesty policy and they expect employees to be honest at all times but again management is not held to this policy. The company comes up with programs to reward hard working employees but unless you work in Grand Rapids these programs only last a short time and then are forgotten. Most supervisors only reward their favorite employees and not always the employees that have earned it. Promotions are mostly given to people from outside the company or relatives of management. Hard work is rarely recognized or rewarded. In the distribution centers most equipment is shabby and probably close to unsafe. The company does very little preventive maintenance on the buildings or equipment, only fixing things after they break. The Union takes money from every check you earn and gives nothing in return.

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5.0
26 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great company and benefits. The Meijer Credit Union is amazing and being able to work remote is a blessing.

Cons

Not much recognition for individual contribution. Recognition systems on the whole are great though especially for the company's size

2.0
20 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Direct coworkers were great to work with. I also enjoyed being left to do my work and not babysat by management.

Cons

Management doesn't know what they are doing. Resets and floor plans were regularly not done properly. The store I worked at has a skeleton crew so I never got help (but was expected to stop everything I'm going to go help other departments/areas). Also meaning good luck to any customers needing help, especially when I was the only person working my area of the store, so when I wasn't there, no one was. Management also regularly disappeared into the offices or were on vacation. Also was terminated for reasons outside my control even though I was told they look at the reasons for attendance incidents before termination. Never got to get the FMLA or accommodation to my doctors before being terminated two days after I requested them. Didn't bother asking for a raise either. I did multiple times and got nothing.

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