Going downhill fast - Crew Member Trader Joe's Employee Review

3.0
11 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A technically flexible schedule (unless it's hours you WANT to work and they will ask you WHY you can only work within your availability if you change it). The people you work with are usually pretty great and that's honestly the best part. The benefits are decent but continue to get slowly worse and worse. You do get a biannual raise, but it started off as a dollar and has gone down to .75 cents, who knows what's next? The discount is honestly excellent, as well as the bonus you get each year that you can send to your retirement instead. And the health benefits are some of the best truly, but once again do keep going up.

Cons

They're one of many companies trying to abolish the labor rights act. The "perks" you do have keep getting worse little by little each year. The customers vary HEAVILY based on what location you're in, that's just retail. If you're not a multimillion dollar store you will be understaffed and hours will get cut. If you can't work a flexible schedule that could be all over the place, your hours will get cut. PTO & Sick leave are pumped into one sum of hours that you have to work in order to accrue. Benefits are slowly getting more expensive. Your experience will also be heavily based on your management for better or worse. There tends to be a lot of favoritism and I've seen this at multiple locations. Harassment does not typically get taken very seriously unless it's basically an arrestible offense. They keep expanding rapidly and claim to be an inverted triangle company where the crew comes before the management and corporate, but this expansion makes it clear that's not the case. I could go on, but I think you get the gist.

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Pros

Fun place and good people!

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Flexible schedule is the best part of the job. A lot depends on your captain but it can be a good gig at the right store. Employee discount is 20% and there is usually food in the break room.

Cons

Most employees don't have any kind of education past high school. Can be very frustrating in that aspect. Will consistently get hours but your schedule can wildly change week to week. Expectations are often unclear and lost in gray areas. Customer experiences are much more negative than positive once you become a mate. Never really have any down time or room to breathe. If you think you are a people person, make sure you really are or else you will dislike the job. Takes over a decade at least to be promoted to Captain, if you get lucky.

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