store manager

retail assistant manager

produce manager

assistant store manager

stocking associate

United Grocery Outlet

I worked for this company for two years. They never gave me a raise when it was due, the managers were rude and nosey when I requested days off, and they expect way too much out of you. I was getting paid the bare minimum and struggled to even buy food and pay bills. Not to mention that I worked full time the whole two years and never got offered any of the full time benefits. And when I asked I was told, “You don’t need those. They’re nothing special”. I got brushed off by the managers all the time when asking about my schedule or asking about my yearly evaluation. Customers were rude and managers expected you to run the register all alone. You don’t get any breaks between lunches so you’re expected to constantly work. You’re not guaranteed the days you ask off for if the manager doesn’t see it important enough. Schedule never set, so you never know when you’re gonna have to work. This made it difficult to plan things for my social life outside of work. It will run you down and you’ll be miserable, and when you try to leave they will guilt trip you to stay because they’re extremely short staffed. Oh, and the drama with the high school kids will make you go insane…. Good luck if you ever work here because you’ll be treated worse than factory workers.

Grocery outlet is what I would call a starting job. There is absolutely no room for growth and the pay is below average. You will work a full shift and get all of your work done and think, " I finally did it" only to be thrown to another task. I have worked in every department in my store and I'm familiar with all aspects. I only make a small amount more than the new hire cashiers. There is no employee appreciation to speak of whatsoever and it's taxing. I've worked at the Johnson city location for over a year and three months, I got a .35c raise for sticking around through all of the short staffing, company changes and threats. If you need a Job to get back on your feet then this place is great, but you need to jump to something better as soon as your heel touches the ground. The only silver lining to my work place is my assistant store manager and key holders are very nice and considerate when situations arise. But this is only at my store from what I've seen. 

So much drama. The training is nonexistent and pathetic. The managers are childish. They will verbally refuse to train and will harass you and complain when you go to HR. The manager doesn’t care about anything but his bonus and will try to convince other higher members of management that there’s never any harassment going on. You will work full time hours and still be considered a part time employee. Your schedule can be randomly changed with no notice even on your day off. They have no issue destroying important paperwork/documents just to be able to say the the person they don’t like never did them. It’s a dysfunctional place to work in. The management team(and I mean front of the store managers Not back of the store) need to be cleared out before the store becomes more toxic than it already is. Never have I worked in a place that gets off on being toxic. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing was that good to be honest. They are pretty scammy. When they learned how to get the prices low they did that down their entire chain. Everything is under maintained, understaffed, under managed.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They dont have set times to get out of work. You leave once all the trucks are loaded or unloaded depending on your position.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment: Extremely selfish and toxic. Fake.

Culture: Toxic, lots of people on drugs, lots of underqualified managers trying to fake it til they make it while never quite actually making it. Constantly faking.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Come in anxious about how long you're going to be stuck in there.
Listening to other people upset about the work environment complain about x,y,z

A typical day at the Greeneville, TN store is stressful. Pay is bi-weekly. No pay raises until you have been there a year or more. Customers are generally angry because there are never enough cashiers. The manager plays favorites so depending on that is whether or not you get a pay raise. The DM lets the manager do whatever she wants with the store. He is barely there so he has no idea what is going on there. There are no dress codes. You have some cashiers that will wear an apron and others that refuse to wear an apron which leads to customers being confused as to who the managers are. The workplace culture there is very gossipy. There are no benefits offered to employees and no chance of upward advancement.  If you get hired there for example as a cashier you never get the chance to change to say stocking. You are stuck in the position you were hired for.

A typical day at work at UGO was very fun for me. I was mostly a cashier and i loved every second of it. I loved running a register, I loved counting money, I loved making customers happy with my speed that I checked them out. I learned how to count money faster, I also learned speed of getting customers out fast so they wouldn't have to wait in line. The management was very understanding with my family issues I had while I was employed there. My co-workers were fun to work with, and I liked getting to know them. I also knew when to be professional. The hardest part of the job was managing my time wisely to make sure every customer was happy when they left my lane. The most enjoyable part of my job was getting to know my regular customers that came to shop everyday. I actually enjoyed getting to know about their lives,

If I were to be honest, one of the hardest parts of this job would have to be the customers. Though that can be said for most jobs with customers. Other than that though, it was a very enjoyable and down to earth place. Thanks to this job, I was able to obtain more experience than just being a simple cashier as my title entailed. I also stocked, assisted in using pallet jacks to carry heavier loads that no one else could get, and assisting the managers whenever they needed some help. I met some people here that honestly I am so glad I met. They have become true life long friends and truly care about me and the other people there. The staff is one of the main reasons it was so hard to quit and move on. There will truly be no one else like them.

I closed every night I worked and had to run a whole store with just one employee at times. I worked every holiday. I really thought they believed and cared for me but that was not the case at all. The store manager was not the best at communicating or training. I believed it was a company I could grow with ended up I never even got a 90 day or 6 month review. I was never paid for mileage due to store management. So needless to say I found another job as quickly as I could. I had no balance of home and work life. I had no life besides working for UGO. Employment turnover was very substantial with over 25 employees in less than one year. Really disappointed that it didn’t work out. 

Not a lot to say about it really,it's a paycheck but other than that not great at all.No communication really from anywhere,you kinda have to figure out everything on your own, management doesn't even really know a lot and you have to keep on them if you have a question and theirs no real training in whole, everyone usually just says they don't know if you have a question.The PTO system is confusing and management never has really explained to me how it works because they were never even shown.Insurance they offer is horrible and pay is not competitive to today's standards.

No structure or organization at all. Low pay. Typical day was very chaotic as we quickly became understaffed when almost all our cashiers quit. Manager wouldn't hire any new people, and I was lucky to get more than 5 hours a week despite not having enough cashiers. The worst part is that I had been there since before the store opened, while the newer people would still get 20-30 hours a week. Got along really well with everyone except the main manager, who would often act like I didn't even exist. On the bright side, you get an hour for lunch and everyone else besides the manager was really nice. I also learned a lot about stocking and running a register as it was my first job.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Store manager 7 salaries reported	$53,571 per year
Retail assistant manager 23 salaries reported	$14.30 per hour
Produce manager 16 salaries reported	$15.06 per hour
Assistant store manager 11 salaries reported	$17.23 per hour
Stocking associate 9 salaries reported	$15.50 per hour

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