cashier

kitchen team member

grocery associate

produce clerk

meat carver

Cardenas Markets LLC

Cardenas Markets is a Hispanic grocery store chain that is known for its fresh produce, diverse selection of products, and affordable prices. The company is committed to providing a positive shopping experience for its customers and promoting the well-being of the communities it serves.

As a cashier at Cardenas Markets, a typical day for me at work would involve greeting customers, scanning their items, processing payments, and providing excellent customer service. Cashiers are expected to be friendly, efficient, and knowledgeable about the products in the store. Whenever clients were not buying, then I would clean my area and after that I would clean isles of the store. 

Working at Cardenas Markets provides cashiers with an opportunity to learn about different cultures, as the store caters to a diverse customer base. The company also offers training and development programs to help employees advance in their careers.
Management at Cardenas Markets is said to be supportive and understanding, and the workplace culture is described as friendly and welcoming. However, like any job, there may be challenging moments, such as dealing with difficult customers or handling large crowds during peak hours, even though this last one proved to me that I am very good at working under pressure. 

Despite the challenges, the most enjoyable part of the job is said to be interacting with customers and making their shopping experience a positive one. Cashiers at Cardenas Markets have the opportunity to connect with people from all walks of life and make a positive impact on their day.


So I been working here for almost 5 years.  Management lacks basic functionality.  They don’t greet you, and 100% don’t care about you. The hardest part of working for this company is that it will stress you out so much. Maybe to the point where you get depressed and have thoughts on just dying. That’s the harsh reality of working here. I used to love my job, but they ask for so much and don’t even give you a livable wage. Getting a raise is a joke, good luck. And this company strives on exploitation. You’ll be forced to do other people’s jobs and not get paid for it. You’ll get treated worse than anything. I’m a bakery worker and the managers come in treating us like an immigrantion raid. Telling all of us to leave because we went over more of our “time” or hours. When reality they don’t let you even put in 40hrs, max hours would be 32-36 hrs.  Yet they cut your hours and given 6 hrs expect you to do a high task- multiple persons job, at such little given time. They rather have the entire store understaffed, allowing all there workers to be burned out. As i type this, im extremely burned out. It’s becoming a mental problem now. I openly spoke with management about my depression and how I felt. No one cared. So yea, I wouldn’t recommend anyone to work for a company who doesn’t treat you like a basic human being. To be completely honest they see you as a robot. 

Worst!!!! Job expierence ever. I truly was looking forward to a new job expierce, being that I've never worked in grocery store. I Was GREATLY disappointed. 
The work environment is an Overworked ,underpaid ,hostile one.
It's a survival of the fittes jungle. 
No TEAMWORK effort at .
They put you where your needed and figure it out yourself attitude.
My respects to the ones that have been there for yrs, sadly it's only because it's all they know . For whatever reason they are afraid to speak up ,for there deserved pay, many are professionals, skilled at there jobs and get paid less than minimum. 
Sad ,
And if you do they will push you to the point of quitting. Sadder.
I Haven't been to the Cardenas in Cathhedral City but many customers would rave of it, fulfilling there curiosity they'd stop by the Indio one and no comparison they'd say. The ONLY positive thing ever ,was the cleanliness, which I laugh cuz it's the most unhygienic place EVER!!!
I LEFT WITH SUCH A BILE TASTE IN MYOUTH OF THE OVERALL EXPIERCE .LITTERALLY BECAME ILL TO HAVE TO GO TO WORK. 
I DO hope it has gotten better since My parting , but It doesn't look it,from my recent visit as a customer.


A typical day at work would begin with grabbing your RF gun,pallet jack rider and entering the warehouse to begin full-filling the stores produce orders for the day. Throughout the day the system would crash and our scan guns would be useless. Management had no clue on how to fix the problem and would begin to become stressful for myself and as well as others. Working at Cardenas I learned about what it takes to run a super market warehouse,working at a fast pace while making little or no error.Understanding the quality of the produce and the proper way to ship it out. Management was the worst Ive ever experienced working all the years Ive worked. They tend to work against their employees rather than with. Always disregard any problem or issue an employee had,If an employee had an idea on how to make work more efficient and run smoother,it was disregarded. My co-workers were a great team to work with. We worked together,always helped one another to get the job done best ways possible.The hardest part of this job was management.The most enjoyable part was working with my team,understanding and learning more about how a super market works.

If you are looking to start your career, then this job is not for you. This job is meant for people who can communicate in Spanish even though they said its not required. If you don't understand Spanish your work life will be twice as hard for you, since it will be difficult for you to convey your solutions and people around you will be talking in Spanish and not English CONSISTENTLY. Be ready to listen 100%, while multi tasking and working other tasks, because if you don't, miscommunications and misunderstands will happen everyday. Workplace culture is not for the faint of heart, you are expected to know everything even if they tell you don't need to know everything. Be ready to work as a team even if the task provided to you is your sole responsibility and if you don't get it done, you will likely get fired for not getting it done. They will also expect you communicate first for any issues otherwise, but don't expect any help because you're the help. Be the HARDEST WORKER in the room if you want to survive here.

In my time working there as a grocery clerk I have learned much and made many good friends but I've also noticed that management and the corporation do not really care about it's employees. They ignore all our hard work and take credit for our success. We work hard and make the most money out of all other departments yet we have the worst hours in the store. As a "full-time" employee I was getting 5 hours and 30 minutes a day, three days a week. I was the lucky one as others in my department were getting less hours and days. Ironically one person in the department aside from the manager was getting 40 hours a week while everyone was getting less than 25. Not even the receiver would have the hours compared to that employee. I don't see how sitting on a black box and facing products is worth of 7-8 hours a day when working new loads, building displays, moving products, and maintaining a perimeter is expected in 5 hours and 30 minutes.

If you can speak English and Spanish, let this be your last option for a job. The company has been sold multiple times. But no one can get it to work or make profit. Leading to hours being cut and the best part it doesn't matter what location you work. The work environment is TOXIC, moving up is impossible because every one is family or best friends out side of work. And even if you have high qualifications for a position they will still put you to do carts. This is a warning not just a review like is said if you can speak English and Spanish and are around the ages of 16- 30 go some were else. Other companies with appropriate your qualifications and bilingual abilitie. I've never worked in more toxic environments in my life everyone who dropped out of high school decided to make this there new high-school drama over dumb thing you got it, rumors you got it them, reporting anything to management or HR us less. You can do better then this keep looking.

Lots of favoritism at the store i worked at. They want you always working yet when there’s no customer and you already cleaned your station they won’t give you something to do. Management tried to make me come into work when i was telling them i wasn’t feeling well (this was during the covid pandemic), boss told me to just take some medicine. They never work with your availability, at the time i had another job on top of this one plus was in school, they would schedule me days i said i couldn’t work and they would put the blame on me when i had told them from the beginning which days and times i can and can not work. As a cashier you have to learn produce codes, which some i didn’t know and when asking for help i get an eye roll. short counted breaks. Overall the job was pretty easy, management just made it miserable there. 

Cardenas isn’t too bad. At my store, they’re pretty laid back as far as dress code is concerned. And by that, I mean tattoos. I don’t like having only 30 minutes for a lunch and two 10 minute breaks though. Especially for a 7-8 hour shift. Also, we don’t have a break room, which really sucks. They have some tables and chairs in the back where we keep all of the backstock, but sometimes they’re all full and you’re forced to go to your car or elsewhere. Bathroom is always clean, but no mirror. Employees get a free lunch and drink from the kitchen. It’s easy to become full time (at least at my store). Management is very poor in my opinion. No one is appreciated. Also feels counterproductive when we have to leave the register to get medicine or alcohol for customers because we keep it locked up. 

First, the job is easy to do. However, managers find the way to make the job environment toxic and stressful. You are surround by unprofessional managers that gossip about there employees in group chats (I think this shows how unprofessional they are).  Supervisors and older coworkers  are rude with younger workers and play favorites. There is a lot of nepotism in the store, they give managment positions to family members instead of giving the opportunity to people who is capable of doing the  job. The only pros is that some coworkers are really friendly and great friends. You get pay weekly but trust me, with a high school diploma, you can do better in any other job. They pay you poorly, usually is between 16 and 17 dollars the hour, when in other places you get pay between 19 to 21 the hour.

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