Fading Glory, Trader Joe's has become a large retailer and is NOT A SPECIAL PLACE TO WORK! Los Angeles area. - Crew Member Trader Joe's Employee Review

2.0
20 Jul 2014
Recommend
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Pros

A little less formal as far as retail, jeans, shorts... Small stores, less running around, compared to big box. For now, workers are still kind of happy, changing fast.

Cons

Now a Big Company and feeling more like it everyday. Managers are lazy, standing in groups, doing nothing. Company is forcing more short-shifts, 5 hours or less and cutting hours on every shift, forcing higher-paid, experienced workers out. If you dare to get a second job to help pay bills, they stop scheduling you but don't really fire you... "Merchants" no longer carry keys and are just the managers favorites who kiss ___ and get over paid to stock shelves, they don't help anyone (workers or customers). Managers give you an "area" to clean but there is no time given to "keep it clean".

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5.0
6 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Great benefits -Positive work culture

Cons

-Can be cliquey depending on location

4.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Great way to meet people, socialize, and learn customer service -Always tasked with different things every hour -Friendly crew who will always help you to learn and get better at your job -Get a slight pay raise every 6 months -No outside commitments and amazing benefits if you work full time (about 28 hours a week for every 6 months) -Will take time, but find your friend group, stay with them and have fun, you can't please everybody -Care for your body, do not overdo it with physical labor, its a retail job and you only have one fragile body for yourself, get help or insist about your pains

Cons

-Not many, unless you are stuck in a bad store with bad management -I had some good luck of working in 3 great stores, so YMMV -Sometimes can get cliquey like you are back in high school -Getting promoted up to store management may involve buttering up and being a "yes-person" -Care for your body, do not overdo it with physical labor, its a retail job and you only have one fragile body for yourself, get help or insist about your pains

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