Vantaggi
My manager was very flexible with my schedule. My supervisors and managers verbal appreciation for my hard work. You can learn many aspects of grocery/retail operations.
Svantaggi
Meijer pays you poverty wages. You then are forced(in Ohio you cannot legally opt out) to pay a bargaining union to negotiate those poverty wages. Part-timers have to wait 18 months before receiving all the paid holidays Meijer offers. They understaff the store. Well below the bare minimum of employees making the workload literally impossible. They also are understaffed on supervisors. They cut hours by hundreds of hours in all departments during holidays. They cannot keep employees there because they do not pay them their worth and give them impossible workloads to accomplish. And good workers leave and never return. All the managers say they're not allowed to give raises. I don't believe this. The pay scale is not part-time friendly. If you're part-time expect to make a $1.00 raise in about 2-4 YEARS. You'll make more from state/federal minimum wage increases than from the pay scale. Managers compliment your work, and express they want to pay you more but are not allowed. You get to realizing while Meijer is making billions of dollars, opening dozens of new stores with non borrowed money, and you're not able to pay your bills that something isn't right. The Union is only for workers who don't want to be disciplined. Part-timers are not eligible to include family members on insurance plans only their individual self.