Good people work for this company,...unfortunately there is too much pressure from higher up that put way too much emphasis on saving money instead of looking at what needs to be done and what would help in the long run.

Bad management

um shit place to work for really, they don't give a crap about you, they only care about maximizing profits

I love that window that pops up and says "no employer deserves all these 1 star ratings" what a laugh, you haven't worked for this company! I've worked for this company for 10 years. I am just returning to work after 2 1/2 months short term disability, under my doctors constant care. Guess what? Blue cross wont pay me. So after getting kicked out of my place (couldn't pay rent) ruining my...

Most messed up grocery store I have worked for! I work at deerfoot meadows, mostly everyone hates their job, including the supervisors, and you can tell!! The store is dirty, no one in my dept even shops at that store, it's not to shabby if your supervisor is slack and you only have min hours otherwise look for a job somewhere else.

I've worked over the past 3 years at the superstore as a cashier. Being one of the only male cashier at our store has some perks and benefits, but I also find customers are a lot more disrespectful towards myself because I am male. The space is crowded bewteen the lanes, and during busy periods we do not have enough staff to maintain happy customers, nor the space required to keep the lanes...

Poor organization and management of resources put the low-end employees under serious stress and fatigue.

I recently started at the store in Duncan, BC. My department manager and higher ups in the store have been really good and helpful. When I was hired, I was told to expect 15 hours per week. Excluding the first week, I've always had more than 25 hours. Last week I got close to 40 hours.

However they didn't really train me on some stuff and I had to learn myself or ask one of my fellow...

This is rated for the 1043 superstore in Oshawa. I should not even rate them . Management is a pure joke. They tell you want u want to here just to get the job done and have you off there backs. We have a lot of good employees, and poor managers. The union stewarts are a frigg n joke!!

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The Victoria BC Store is in trouble. They were going to have a visit from the executive from Loblaw. They were to tour the ALL the stores on the Island. They went to Campbell River, Nanaimo and Duncan... They did not come to Victoria, their reason was out of time had to catch a flight.

So we bring in extra staff to make the store look good and this happens again....

And of course if they...

I worked at a store in Edmonton, and hated it almost immediately. Our "safety training" involved watching a video and filling out a questionnaire, the answers to which were spoon-fed to us and I STILL had the people sitting to either side of me leaning over the copy my answers. During a tour of the back rooms, the training supervisor pointed out that someone left eggs on top of milk and that it...

Unprofessional,uneducated,unsafe,unappreciative,unaccepting,unbelievable,unrealistic,poorly maintained,disrespectful,ignorant,cheap,wasteful,overcrowded,and straight up dead end place to work.I could probly type a whole paragraph or more on each of these words explaining exactly how they apply to the superstore as a workplace....But I will save the time and effort because it will just go unread...

Bad management, and they do not respect you at all. If you respect your safety then don't work here. Looks like lots of people are posting the same thing, after working here thought I'd see if others were having the same problem. Not a surprise.

I Know how you feel, I was a price checker for about a year and let me tell you the job was brutal, at first the job was ok but my last few months was Hell. At times I felt like a slave and really felt like I wasn't appreciated. I do think this is one of the hardest jobs at superstore and almost everytime the front end managers would forget my break which is very frustrating. And the worst thing...

This company is a complete joke. The market shares for this company dropped 23% for the first quarter. (...). The atmosphere and work environment is extremely toxic and unprofessional. Employees are stressed out and hate there jobs. Most staff are high school students, and this being their first job, are easily manipulated by management. I must admit, I was truly embarrassed and humiliated for ...

A workplace is only as strong as the people who work there. I've worked at an RCSS for several years now and have found it a fantastic place to work. I have a management team that always takes a moment to say hello and see how you are. My direct managers for my department take an interest in my personal life and hobbies an have been unbelievably caring in hard times. The trick is to not attempt...

I believe that good comunications and sharing learning experments between employer and employees are a good work environment.I believe that good comunications skills for all policies in the rules are a good comunication skills between employer and employee would help have a more safe on open comunications between employers and employees would help prevent employer and employee abused privelegdes...

Abusive management, union representatives don't do their job, your completely expendable, health and safety doesn't exist they lie to inspector officials, they hire five extra people they don't need then fire them just for some easy fast manpower without having to give benefits.

I work at RCSS in Kamloops BC. I'm surprised with all of these reviews. I absolutely love my job we ALL get along great and communicate well. Managers respect all employees and provide feedback. RCSS respects that I have a life outside of work and gives me time off when I need it no questions asked. I love it.

Internal communication SUCKS.. im in first year business and have more knowledge on how a corporation runs then 99% of the managers they have running/representing the store.. loblaw really need to send managers to ACTUAL school so they can learn how to manage properly

Sad state of affairs at RCSS. Best to hire high school drop-outs at the wages they are paying. Also, management needs a good kick in the ass! They need to learn how to treat their employees with RESPECT, instead of abusing and harassing them! Man, what a mistake working here..... get out when you can!!

Management will go to any lengths to get you to quit. Screaming at employees in front of customers and other staff. Total disregard for breaks...often I would get passed over for my break because management needed theirs first...the benefits only cover employees and not their families. They make staff pay for their own christmas party if you want one. When you make a complaint to the union...

I worked at the Superstore in Coventry Hills for approx 1 year. The only good thing about the store were the employees. The management was useless, all they did was walk around playing on their phones and tell the employees what to do. There was no lead by example mentality. There was more emphasis on making sales than on employee satisfaction (if your employees are not happy you will not be...

I have worked at this company for a little over a year and I've 8 assistant store managers and 3 store managers. My department (grocery) has been seperated into 2 departments (grocery & dairy frozen) and most evenings they still expect me to work both. Out of everyone (5 people) in my new department I've been there the longest and I get the least amount of hours because I have the worst...

Poor company to work for

this company has gone to the jumps, I enjoyed it when I first started they say working in a smaller store is better they are so wrong, the stuff that goes on in my store if they only knew, dept managers who are retards and can't even do their jobs properly and our store management team is useless (...).

I've work for Loblaws in 2 different provinces, Ontario and B.C. In Ontario, I worked at a store with a training center for 6 yrs. In B.C. I am still working at RCSS and have been there for 7 yrs.

The differences between both stores are vast.

The one with the training center gives all the training you'll ever need whereas the B.C. store gives no training whatsoever. I have yet to receive any...

Not a pleasant place to work at.I don't Know of anyone who enjoys working here.Work isn't suppose to be fun a games but should at least be a place you don't mind being at

Not such a great place. Very low pay and a union that is more geared to protect the company's ass than it is to protect the employees. Some of the lower down managers are ok people, but they get shafted by the higher ups on a regular basis and I feel bad for them. Hours are all over the place and very unreliable. Expect you to work crazy shifts like 3am to 10am for minimum wage ! Total nonsense....

I worked for Superstore in BC for about half a year and I must say I also witnesses and experience the wrath of the managers. I felt WAY TOO good to work here considering Im a UBC student in Biochemistry. But i only did this to pay for my tuition fees. All the ppl i worked with (the non student ones) are either high school drop outs or just graduates of some crappy colleges who think they can...

NO Advancement what so ever, they wont let you grow within the company... the hours are MAX at 28 for full time and 15 for part time.. managers dont know where the company is headed, they just come and stock the shelf's order WAY more then needed and leave, they keep moving products around the store which really piss of customers and they dont tend to come back, the pricing system in the store...

I think that all Superstore employees need to spread the word about this website. Please give the web address to all of your fellow colleagues (current and former), and have them share their stories about the company and the workplace environment. The public needs to know the truth about how horribly employees are treated by Loblaw. If we all come together then maybe things will change. ...

Superstore does have some solid business plans but they change too often and have huge transition times that create a ineffective work place. Mane

I have worked for RCSS for 7 years on grocery night crew. I can say its definitely the worst and most stressful position in the store. Not only that's its extremely physically demanding. They put in place unreasonable and unachievable standards that no one can meet. The saddest part is that the place would be even worse if it was non union. The union is what has made that place tolerable and...

I have been with RCSS for 20 years, and the general atmosphere has declined greatly since the company's implementation of 'Labour Management' within the past year. The company has deeply cut the amount of hours that each department is allowed to schedule each week, which means that less people are expected to get the same amount of work done. The level of stress in my store is through the roof....

As a former manager of a Superstore in Edmonton, I can make the following observations:

Pros:

- Good business model

- Feedback is given and usually it's accurate

- Work is well within the abilities of most 8th graders

Cons:

- Management is pressured to be hostile to hourly colleagues

- Ideas for improvement are met with derision

- Company does not seek feedback from employees

-...

i have worked for this company for almost 20 years,every year it gets to be a worse place to work they give you less and less hours to do stuff and expect you to do more in that less time, only good thing bout working there is have lots of time to spend with family as you only work 5-10 hours a week

The Real Canadian Superstore 1566 located in Edmonton, Alberta is by far the worst employer I have ever had. Easily the worst location in the city; Store Manager is often absent, as well as department supervisor. ASM is under-qualified and often power trips. Absolutely atrocious, unless you want to keep phoning your union, avoid at all costs.

I have worked for RCSS in London, Ontario for half a year now and I have to say that I am surprised with comments being said. The people who work with me are all spectacular. The manager believes in first chances and you get lots of feedback from supervisors. Training is extremely thorough and all the employees are friends with each other. That being said, I work in the front end and have no idea...

i have worked for this company for 6 years. it is the worst run company i have ever had the misfortune to deal with. the store manager shoved an employee and was not disciplined. several managers have verbally abused staff members on a regular basis. they cut hours at the end of the year so that management can get their bonuses.the excuse given? the stores in another district haven't met their...

The hours they make you work when you are a part time employee are so random one day you work from 5:00-11:00pm then the next day they have you in at 8am working here is insane. I work as a price checker/ courtesy clerk. Stuff is always being moved around which confuses the F**k out of both me and the customer, and I get in trouble when I am unable to find it out of the other 10,000 things in...

Labour cuts, added workloads, no consideration for you on days off, expectations of taking on multiple roles at the same rate of pay, too many managers dictating different things-making you do the same job 5 times over.

Where to begin with this store...

I work in the bakery department of an Ottawa superstore. Let's just start off by saying that I in no way would ever recommend employment in this company to anyone, it's something you will regret for the entire length of your employment. from the top down the management is terrible. My manager, who by himself is a spectacular manager who is personally involved...

The supervisors are ruuuuuude and uneducated hicks. anyways,So today we were informed that they are no longer accepting RTO (request time offs) for the holiday season.. mind you that it is the middle of November and they arent accepting anything for dec. 24-jan 1.Understandable, since I assume a lot of people have been requesting time off for the holiday season..however, with getting three...

Loblaws which is the parent organization of The Real Canadian Superstore is an organization you should try to boycott. Not only are all of the store managers complete incompetent, uneducated fools, the supervisors are close runner ups to that position. When an employee is being harassed or is in danger Superstore does not take it seriously and believes it is out of their hands or does not fall...

I worked at 2 Superstores and an ExtraFoods in Saskatchewan, and I have to say this is one of worst run companies I have come across. Management treats you badly, you do not get paid enough for what you do, equipment is not maintained, safety is not enforced (a high up manager nearly killed me), food quality is nonexistent at 1 of the stores I worked (i have vomit inducing stories) and not much...

Loblaw Companies is a great company to work for. The Real Canadian Superstore is a flagship banner where colleagues are encouraged to balance life and work. Some benefits are available from the first day you work, other benefits are available after the terms of probation.

The Real Canadian Superstore offers a great work environment; it is very clean and safe. I highly recommend this employer for individuals seeking part-time work in a low level of stress environment. Employment at the Real Canadian Superstore is ideal for high school students. It is highly not recommended for anyone looking for full-time job which pays above minimum wage. As a cashier the work...

A supervisor that must earn 125k and is in charge of 7-8 stores sends emails so poorly written, we now have a binder in our store of our favorites. "lets remember to dot our eyes and cross our teeth" believe it or not is one example.

I was recently fired from the store because I had a second job that I never told them about. I had to go on personal leave to take care of a family member but I still needed money so I kept working at my second job. My second job ending up going under and when I went to return from my leave I was told to come in for a meeting to set me back up into the system.

When I went to this meeting I...

I Have worked for the real canadian superstore for a number of years now as a department manager. It seems that my direct superior expects me and only me to bust my hump while other members of the management "Team" get to chill out and take it easy for most of the shift. I'm just tired of getting taken advantage of as a hard worker. I give everything i have and it's never enough. It is...

Promised lots when hired 8 years ago as a cashier but now down to 20 hours a week. Promised more hours when deal of the week was introduced as would generate revenue didnt happen. In last 2 weeks 10 new cashiers hired at 20 hour weeks. This is not a place to be able to live a life above poverty. New attitude is NO HOURS NO EXTRAS meaning low ringtime and not asking customers to donate at tills....

It is unfortunate that I could not give it as low of a rating as it really deserves - ZERO!

AVOID THE REAL CANADIAN SUPERSTORE!

It is a company that operates by using threats, intimidation and fear tactics.

I have worked at this company for four years, and while I do enjoy most of my colleagues, the upper management team stinks. True hypocrites in every sense of the word. They would take...

In the store where I work the staff are so unhappy and nobody ever smiles, everybody is so stressed out. Hours have been cut from every department and we are all doing as much as we possibly can, but it's never enough. It doesn't matter how hard we work it is never appreciated, only expected. There's no point complaining about it becuase you'll just be told that you have a bad attitude. If the...

I WISH TO GOD THAT THE UNIONIZED COLLEAGUES HAD VOTED TO STRIKE!!!!

I understand that you all have families to feed, I get that. But how do you expect things to get any better without standing up for your beliefs?

I'm a salaried manager and I'm not delusional...I know that the unionized staff run the show and do the majority of the work...after all, they make up about 95% of the...

I am very upset I work in the pharmacy and changing your availability is horrible and questioned even when you have young children at home. The problems with other co-workers are horrible I feel like an unwanted part of the team constantly have them whispering about me and acting like they are better then myself. If you get sick at work where you are vomitting and such dont expect to go home...

I have worked here for a few years now and I can't wait to get out. It's hard to find employment, and I am stuck here until I find a new job. The managers are clueless and RUDE. Maybe 1 out of every 5 of them is actually kind. My hours got cut and I get about 15 hours less then I did before and the pay is awful. The pay varies by department and my department gets the lowest pay and maxes out at...

the poorest mother fuckers who should die of hunger, they pay poor, have NO education on managing or MBAS or anything even of a diploma level. they are cheap, its a freakin sweat shop, they loot people of their honour, respect, life, youth and mostly health

It's like working for nothing!! Management is poor!! Harrasment is constant!! horrible horrible place to work!! Worked there for three years and didn't make any much in pay!

I quit because it was a negative environment, my work was suffering.

A guy who came later, he was promoted before me. Not that I minded about that, but their behaviour was just so crappy. You can be a good leader without being a you know what about it.

I was given less duties, then more duties, then less, whatever. I started to shut off. I'm not listening to someone who can't respect...

I worked here for just over a year and the manager was an idiot, the assistant managers were great. Most supervisors were clueless especially mine. The starting pay is great for a high school student and increases in wage every 500 hours. I loved my job at first and then the supervisors starting showing their true selves and then i hated every moment i was at work. They expect so much in such...

this employer does not acknowledge hard workers, low pay, poor management, and very unprofessional in general.

Incredibily under scheduled and over worked for a student, trying to have a part time job. Working 25 hours a week is crazy for me. Also pushing carts in this weather is impossible and tedious, especially when your working alone!

I worked at the Innes Road location in Ottawa ON and it was pretty questionable at times. Most of the problems were related to head office in one way or another though. For example, to increase our items per minute for cashiers they had us ring ALL the cutomer's items thorugh and THEN bag them. This resulted in a lot more strain on my arms and hands because I didn't get to put the items down into...

I still get nightmares having worked there. I left that job to be a housekeeper, now i am much happier and healthier, with less work and stress, have more work hours and better pay. Both the employer and union sucks there!!

I tried to give this employer a one star rating...apparently no employer deserves a one star rating and it wouldn't let me. Well to "ratemyemployer"...Superstore does deserve that low of a rating. I have worked for this company for 10+ years. This company could care less about its employees, include senior employees, and does whatever it can to replace top wage staff with lower paid entry...

Well I gotta say this place is terrible. So many times i've thought to myself at night " how 4 months and I can't believe i'm still here =|. I work as a price checker. They always seem to move stuff around which confuses both me and all of the customers and I get the heat for it. For example a customer says " hey you used to keep chicken here. Why would you keep moving it? Why can't you leave...

the benfits maybe ok but you have to give them your last breath in life,don't ever get sick you won't be able to go home until you finish your shift you could be throwing up or have the other end running but you stay.

I fired this employer as my provider of work today. It was one of the most enjoyable and satisfying experiences of my working life. For those of you that remain, strike or quit. This is one of the worst employers that you will ever find.

I have worked for this company for 8 years, I keep telling myself that it has to get better, that it CANNOT possibly get any worse--then it does.Their newest trick...a few months ago a few of us received a second paystub, informing us that in paying us BACKPAY (that was owed),They had inadvertantly doubled it, So they would be taking off half on our next pay, (this AFTER charging us taxes AND...

I have travelled in the "Third World" and I have many friends from so-called developing countries. Let me say that working for Superstore is pretty much comparable to a third world working experience from what I have seen and been told by friends about working in such countries. The pay is terribly low especially for new workers. So low that you cannot possibly survive on the money. Hours are...

It's a shame. A company that was once great now loses it's lustre. The ship has become cold and work for it's crew is double what it used to be due to hourly cutbacks. Many of the crew and their supervisors are jumping overboard. The ship feels as if it is more concerned with following Wal-Mart's wake rather than making it's own waves as a unique chain of stores.

I work in a Northern Alberta store for many years and have always taken pride in my work. As a supervisor (re Department Manager) I can say that this is the hardest, most demanding job I've held. My work week is in excess of 60 hours/wk and my salary is slightly less than a full-timer maxed out at 37hrs/wk.

Many people complain about the management; but what they don't see is the pressure...

by far the worst company I have ever worked for brutal beyond belief. High stress, low pay, zero recognition, long hours, no one cares about you as a person.

Work you like a dog and then don't recognise anyone for effort ever.

Constant threats that you will be fired.

I could go on all day

I no longer work for RCSS. However, I worked for Loblaw comp. 10 years prior to switch over to Real Canadian Superstore. Our pay was lower, hours (part-time) were random and week to week you never could predict hours. Taking time off for family, wedding on a week-end etc. was like asking for a major favour. I hated being invited to a function because it meant I would have to explain my reason...

I would highly not recomend working for this company if you are looking for full time hours or any kind of advancement ever. Upper management for the most part are completely rude and talk down too the employees. I will say my department manager is great and my coworkers are wonderful. This is mostly for students or first time job rather than feed your wife and family kind of work. So keep that...

Real Canadian Superstore is a fairly good place to start working when you are entering the job force. Though the management in my section are currently fighting to get rid of someone making it a very stressful place to come and work. Before this it was a fairly good place to work, though there isn't much chance for advancement.

There are certain ones that I would rather leave blank indicating that it's an absolute "no star" indication.

I have worked for the company for over 7 years now. Never had a problem with them until recently. In the new year, my (as well as all other part timers working more than 28 hours/week) hours were cut from 37 to a maximum of 28 hours/week. Considering this is my only source of income, that's a pretty big blow. It is obvious that the reason they did this is to reduce the average wages paid to their...

I work in the pharmacy and I really like it. They have made a lot of changes lately and I hope they keep going. Things are getting better

Two years in the Superstore deli, nearly always doing the work of two people, and still getting reamed for not getting everything done satisfactorily. Supervisors and managers are more concerned with following the rules and pinching pennies than with customer service. I'm always bending the rules to help customers, and God have mercy on me if I'm ever found out. Needless to say, new ideas and...

I work at the deerfoot meadows location, managenent sucks, pay roll I wont even get started and the supervisors even hate thier jobs. The store is dirty and management could care less.

I will come right out and say it this is by far the worst company i have ever worked for i only still work there cuz nobody is hiring right now management they need to learn some people skills one day if they are not careful i will get them to go into a trailer lock it and put a damn bolt seal on it and send the driver back to the warehouse. Dont even get me started on the Freeport Warehouse they...

Been a Night Shift Grocery Clerk 2 years now, RCSS... Still holding on to the thoughts of Full time some day. ( Good Wage and Benefits for fulltime ) Have done some nasty jobs in my life, but this is by far the toughest job one could ever imagine on ones Body and Stress Level. Stocking shelves on a regular basis of 250 Boxes plus a night and then making it look like its full... Gratitude rarely...

this company has the worst managers, they should take a course in anger management!!!! before you have to work 10000 hours to get into the union you get treated badly, they promise hours then don't produce them.

This is by far the worst company I ever have or ever will work for. The management team is deceptive, cohesive and abusive. Additionally, the title of "assistant department manager" is in reality just a stockboy position. However with the title you are expected to supply the company with vast sums of labour that is unpaid. I highly suggest not applying at this company regardless of how...

this company does not care about their employees. Everyone in that company can be replaced and no one cares.

seriously not recomended

This employer only wants the money and they do not care who they step on to get that money. They do not repect the very people that earn them their income. It is time for tihis company to realize that the workers are the back bone of this company and with out the workers they have nothing.

Working in a Northern Alberta Store it is hard to find personal willing to work. It is the same for most employers. Many people want the same type of money they can get working in the lumber or oil and act like they are doing the employer a favor, by working in the store and not elsewhere.

We also have a lot of people using the store as a transition job, because of the boom effect; these...

If you want to get paid right and on time you might want to work somewhere else. If you are human and not a robot and can't do two peoples jobs in ones persons hours then be prepared to get comments that make you feel like you are a failure. The management needs to work on their people skills and have reasonable expectations of their employees as well as make sure they get to have bathroom...

I enjoy the atmosphere of superstore, however, I truly believe that management could be better in understanding that people have work to do in their own departments and cannot be moved around when they can barly finish their own tasks as is. If being moved to a different location in the store is something I need to do then I should be paid for the two, sometimes three, departments I am working in...

One good thing about Superstore is that for only working ten hours a week you get dental, perscription, eye wear coverage and a death benefit which you don't have to pay for. Thats all thanks to the Union that represents the workers. Other than that working for this employer is dismal. I would think the three year olds in China working in sweatshops get treated better than us. Supervisors and...

This employer only cares about there dollar. They show absolutely no appreciation for any staff member. You feel like your working in a third world country. Your health and safety with this co. is not important at all. You may even have to pee your pants while running your till. Not recommended at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!