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Petes is a great place to work. The managers are very supportive and willing to work with your needs. Sometimes the workload can be very fast paced and stressful depending on your department, but it’s really not that bad as long as you apply yourself and push yourself to work hard when it gets overwhelming. You will gain the managers respect very quickly if you can do this consistently. They are very supportive and encouraging with me. Most of the staff are very friendly, funny, caring, and work as a team, even if they are from another department. Of course there are a few workers who are very negative; and particularly one manager is a very miserable and insecure human with insane OCD who likes to abuse their workers and make them feel stupid, weak, and beneath them. There is nothing you can do about the negative people there, all you can do is ignore them because they’re not the ones giving you your paycheck. Focus on all the positive things this place has to offer rather than the few nasty people who work here. It’s such a big place that you’ll barely see them anyways. Do not work in the front end!! I have never worked there, only food departments, but I have friends who work up there and it seems terrible. If you’re in a food department, you can listen to music, eat, use your phone (occasionally), use the bathroom whenever, take your break whenever, and depending on your shift, your immediate manager will only be with you for about 1-2 hours. The food and stocking departments are super chill and actually fun. The front end seems very stressful. You’re dealing with hundreds of customers your entire shift, scanning and bagging is very repetitive, you need to always have your hair up and presentable (food departments just wear hats), you are constantly surrounded by multiple managers, you need to ask to use the bathroom and have to take less than 5 minutes, you can’t eat or use your phone ever, you barely have time to drink water, and you can’t talk to your coworkers about anything fun. If your in a food department, you can laugh your a** off for 8 hours straight, talk about whatever you want, and have fun while still getting the job done. Overall a great place to work, plus, it is literally one block away from the ridgeland green line. I have had a very wonderful experience working here. 

The Good
- Flexible schedule which is very good for students. (Coming from a college student).
- Lost a lot of weight working here as well.
- Payed breaks
- Coworkers are great. The coworkers are nice and helpful and they turn into family basically. This does not include management.
- A lot of overtime
The Bad
- Laziest store management ever. However, there is only one good store manager in the entire store that actually works and helps us out while the other two boss us around and are on their phones the whole time. The main manager that basically runs the store just sits on his phone in the office all day without helping any department.
- They favor the Arabic employees, since this store has mostly Arabic customers, and treat other races and cultures like cattle. Very clear racism throughout the store and very prominent favoritism. Management definitely favor certain employees over others.
- Over worked everyday and none stop nagging and being told what to do every single second. Sometimes I have to do three things at once in less than 5 minutes.
- UNDERSTAFFED every single day.
- Not necessarily the company's fault but this store brings in the worst customers ever.
- No discounts on groceries only $1 off if you buy lunch at the hot food bar. WOW $1 OFF HOW AMAZING.
- MICROMANAGEMENT!!! Everything has to be perfect even if we're short staffed which yes, we're short staffed every day.
- They pay terribly even though this store is the busiest and makes the most money. We do not get any benefits for being overworked.
- They have a point system that keeps track of what you did wrong which is bogus because you will get points if you clock in or out even a second late.
- Was promised a evaluation and raise after 4 months, but that didn't happen until my one year mark and got a measly $0.50 raise. Currently making $10.50 which is not what I deserve.

My days working in Pete's Fresh Market would consist of remembering the codes of the product the store carried such as fruits, vegetables and cooked foods. I would work the register and bag groceries from time to time. During closing hour I would help my coworkers clean up and polish their stations, I would sweep and prepare mop water. I was moved to the liquor department, by working here I had learned use the scan gun to check sales and make orders for the product that was running low. I was taught how to properly face and stock up so that my area would look presentable to our guests. I'd also would do some cleaning up, too. I worked in the warehouse picking up shipment. My managers were a great set of people, they would be there when you need them. My coworkers were super friendly and knew how to work as a team, we'd help one another when we didn't know a price or code. It was great to know that I can count on them for anything. For me, the hardest part of my job was making orders. The process was confusing but within time I would have gotten better. The most enjoyable part of my job was when I had conversations with my guests, they would either be funny, or informal. No matter who they were I enjoyed talking to them. Also, when i would pick up the shipment from the warehouse and stock up.

Pete’s Fresh Market has a toxic work environment largely driven by front-end management. Front-end managers rely on micromanaging, favoritism, and intimidation rather than actual leadership. Employees are frequently spoken to in a condescending manner and blamed for issues caused by poor management decisions.
Managers rarely help on the floor. When the front end is busy or understaffed, they often stand around talking, laughing, or gossiping instead of assisting employees who are overwhelmed. This lack of involvement creates unnecessary stress and reflects poor professionalism.
Time-off requests are rarely, if ever, approved regardless of the situation. Employees are expected to prioritize the job over personal obligations, and working holidays is essentially mandatory with little flexibility or consideration.
There is little respect for employees’ time or effort. Schedules are changed without notice, concerns are ignored, and hard work is overlooked unless you are favored by management. High turnover on the front end speaks for itself.
I would not recommend working the front end at this company.


My job at Pete's consisted of the usual deli duties consisting of waiting on customers, restocking, sanitation, etc. In addition, I learned about Halal procedure, which is basically using different slicers for any pork products (which Halal forbids )  and separate slicers for cheese. Also, that it was normal to have Halal customers to request that I change my gloves.

We also had extensive Polish products, most of which I had never seen or heard of before working at Pete's.

The store itself carries 110,000 different brands of products, and new products almost every week.

I enjoyed learning new products, how cleanliness was paramount in every department, and the huge variety of cultural food.

The hardest part was trying to teach new hires (some of which just barely spoke English), the importance of putting products back in the same place, not cross contaminating, cleaning up your own mess, etc.

Pete’s is everything you don’t want in a grocery store as far as employees go. Management is required to work 6 9-10 hour days every week with one day off. Everyone is paid hourly so they will rope you in by saying they’re generous with the overtime, but the second you go to take a day off it hurts your wallet. You’ll get one week of vacation as a manager but it only pays 40 hours. It’s almost like they disuade you from taking time off that way. The upper management beyond store level is something else. There were a few nice people but most are family and friends of the owners with a very cutthroat attitude. Regular hourly employees get away with murder. Employees get away with stealing, harassment and constant call offs or even no call no shows. It takes a lot to get fired there. More often than not they will just transfer you to a different store and think that’s the solution to the problem. If you really need a job they’ll hire you but I do not recommend working there. 

A day working at Pete's Fresh will be spent working with others trying to reach the same goal. The goal is to beautify the store and make it a pleasant place to shop for our customers. Most of the employees work exceptionally hard each day. The management can be tough, but they just want you to put 100% of your effort into your work. Working at Pete's Fresh Market has taught me how to be more organized and has improved my problem solving skills and work ethic. For the most part the job is relatively easy. However, the job can get difficult when you are trying to make some of the fruit displays look as nice as possible. For example if you are trying to stack some honeydews, it can get difficult trying to stack them if they come in various sizes. The most enjoyable part of the job is conversing with the customers and helping them in their purchases.

A typical day at work involved all the obvious tasks of a stocker. I learned to properly stock items on shelves, rotate items, check dates, maintain items presentable, and to interact with customers in a respectful manner. The management was iffy. Too many employees that think they have the authority to act as if they were a manager. Also too many managers that slack off and dont get much done. The work place culture was fairly solid. Although managers had issues with one another, everybody got along for the most part. General manager is horrible at properly communicating with employees and that tends to go a long way in a negative sense. The job is pretty simple and tasks are easy. The most enjoyable part is interacting with customers and coworkers while working.

The hardest part of the job would actually be management. Managers are great because they are considered to be the higher ups who watch over the other workers under them but it's not so cut and dry as I've seen; managers are constantly bombarded with request and complaints from like minded individuals such as corporate or the General manger or even the simple customer that walks into the building for the very first time. I've never been a manager before but I feel bad for how much a manager has to go through every day while on the job. As far as I'm concerned I've always been blessed with having it easy by doing maintenance duties or even just greeting customers.

When I first started at Pete's Fresh Market I was optimistic about the potential for advancement in a growing company. As time has progressed, I've discovered that the culture is very toxic. Many of the members of management have a negative attitude about the day to day responsibilities which has worn off on the staff. 

The benefits are practically nonexistent with PTO being limited to one week that is not earned until 1 year after start date. The workload was stressful at the onset but, once you grasp an understanding of the tasks, the job is straightforward. The best part about the job is the management style. They use a hands off approach which really gives me freedom and empowerment as an employee.

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