Heavy Lifting Much of Day - Retail Merchandiser PL Marketing Employee Review

3.0
Sep 18, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

This job is good for introverts who like to be autonomous. I liked spending my day doing resets, "solving puzzles" with the groceries, with my head mostly hidden in the shelves. The district manager was great, and fair, but they still were under pressure to make me feel rushed. Later, my direct manager was also awesome, but my first one had not been. Don't do this if you cant handle the pressure of workload ALWAYS being more than you can actually accomplish.

Cons

I had to please store management, stay out of customers' way; keep my work area clean, which was a real challenge; and be friends with back door receivers so they would help me when I needed help locating product. But store managers like to use people and they tried to get me to do increasing amounts of tasks that were not my responsibility, such as pricing & organizing clearance items or new product that came in. Beware of being too good of a worker. The very worst thing for me, as a woman in my 40's, was injuring my hands, knees, and back from repetitive tasks, kneeling on hard floors to reach bottom shelves for hours, But worst of all: Lifting 50-75 lbs frequently, and you never know just how heavy the tote was going to be until you already tried to lift it.

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5.0
Jan 2, 2024
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Pros

Flexible, bonuses, incentives and mileage pay

Cons

Stand all day for 10 hours or more

3.0
Jan 25, 2024
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

You get to work the hours you want. Work is done at your pace. The Work can be done alone or with others. 2-week training at a minimum, but it can take longer depending on proficiency. Work is done through the use of Plan-O-Grams to make workflow easier to manage. You will typically only stock new items and products and it can be anywhere throughout your location from grocery, meat, electronics, haircare, and more. Assisting customers with their needs was heartwarming. When I started working there, I had a senior manager and coach who worked with me to assist me whenever I had questions in a friendly manner.

Cons

However, after about two months my senior manager was promoted and replaced by a new overbearing manager who would visit the storefront where I worked and criticize me for the lack of care in work done by other employees because I had taken it upon myself to act as 'team lead' at my location without any formal training. The Plan-O-Grams given throughout the year typically have several issues, ranging from: not being sized appropriately, being difficult to read and comprehend, not even pertaining to your location, being out of date entirely, and there could be missing or incorrect information. You might get pulled by your manager to work at smaller or larger storefronts with drives longer than an hour or two to assist. Your desired work location is never consistent if you want or need more hours. This is because the storefront you work at may not be given enough work to last for part-time or even full-time hours. If at all. The Roles of the Job are very broad for a reason.

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