Pros
Good exercise. Great Product quality, you can take pride in what your store provides. Extremely friendly co-workers. Your customer service abilities will skyrocket.
Cons
I began working for Raley's in June of 2008, before the market crash. During that Summer my store in Grass Valley was considered to be one of the busiest stores in the entire chain and it showed. 2 full cart orders were the norm and you worked constantly. Then the market crashed and Raley's became a sad John Steinbeck novel. I worked for the company before the You Count Card, which was only suppose to be a holiday only thing, and when Corporate discovered employees could buy more, they implemented the card permanently. It does not matter how long you have worked for the company or what position you hold, if someone who is not apart of your family, even if they are a fellow employee,use the You Count Card, you are immediately fired. Corporate's stance on employee discount before YCC was this: "We pay you enough, you don't need a discount." You were literally told this in training. -My store was Non Union, you could be fired for anything. After the market crashed, many of our employees were let go for seemingly no reason. -Absolutely no advancement. I worked myself into the ground for 2 and a half years for a promotion that was 4 times the work load and $ .25 more an hour. I received very little if any training in my new department. -If you are a new hire, don't be surprised to find out that people who have worked at the company for decades is making much more than you doing the same job. Raley's used to be a place you could support yourself with. -The hours are nonsensical. There is no need for shifts to change every week. I could understand way back when you had a ton of staff, but now it just doesn't make any sense. -The environment became incredibly dog eat dog. -Depressing place to work once you know what things use to be like. -Woefully understaffed. How understaffed my store was should have been criminal. -Incredibly cliquey and drama that really doesn't matter. -Corporate made it very clear they did not care for their employees.
