Dollar General in disguise - Store Team Leader (STL) pOpshelf Employee Review

3.0
14 Feb 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Store culture, benefits, clean remodeled stores

Cons

The pay is awful. When pOpshelf first opened its doors payroll was manageable and reasonable. Over a year when company started cutting payroll and adding more “tasks” and asks, it was hard to keep good employees due to hours being dramatically cut. Think 154 hours per week…many times employees were in the store for a few hours by themselves, or only two in the morning or evenings. I started to realize that they were easing into Dollar General ways and I was naive to believe they were going to run pOpshelf stores differently. Even with those few hours given, you were demanded to send help to other stores, sometimes in other states, for weeks at a time. There was no incentive for this and employees hated it. Even with the low pay I would have been willing to stay at pOpshelf had it been the company I started with.

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5.0
15 Jul 2025
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Pros

Creative Excellent leadership Growth potential Work life balance

Cons

None, leadership wants everyone to grow and succeed with them

2.0
31 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This job was a dream come true. I love the atmosphere, what the company strived for, the cute displays. I didn't even mind the fast paced work and constant overbearing work-load. I thought it was fun, a constant race against time against the new truck that would come and clog our backroom the next week. This place paid me very well but only because of the STL that hired me in believed in hiring for retainment and offered a great starting pay.

Cons

Confused Corporate. They would constantly send two or three different display sets and then decide all of them were supposed to go in the same place yet not allow mixing of sets. The culture is incredibly cliquey, if you're not in with upper management, you're out. You will get the cold shoulder, they will refuse to speak to you. If you perform poorly in their eyes you will hear about it but only because upper management thought it was appropriate to approach part-timers and associates instead of communicating directly. It's incredibly childish and high-school like.

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