Kwik Trip Reviews

Pros

not a bad place to work for, love the compoany and people we work as a great team

Cons

its retail work 24/7 365

Advice to Senior Management

get it together

Pros

Bonus check at the end of the year and the package associated with that is one of the best I have ever had.
Co-Workers are nice for the most part.
People interaction (if you are a people person)
CEO and highest management is stellar.

Cons

Bosses have the potential to take job too seriously.
Management may say one thing and do another. i.e. letting you believe there are opportunities when they have no intention of allowing advancement.
Middle management needs work and acts as an exclusive club. Not inviting to co-workers.

Advice to Senior Management

No advice needed for Zone Leaders and up.
District leaders and store leaders need to be more considerate of the co-workers. Not a blanket statement, but there are a few who could use some help not being intentionally disrespectful to co-workers.

Pros

good benefits, good place to work for old people, flexible schedule, good management, good training, it is better than seating at home and collecting gov. benefits

Cons

job is in jeneral not motivating, robot tasks, do every day same things like factory job but at factory you get payd dubled the kwik trip salary.

Advice to Senior Management

keep up good work on benefits and profit sharing, company in jeneral going in the right direction, you have a lot of very smart future leaders working in the stores - set up development program for those people.

Pros

For a retail job, pay is fairly high.
Raises are nothing to shout about but you do get a bonus check at the end of the year that is appreciated, especially since you get it around the holidays and need a little extra spending money.
You work with a decent amount of employees, so if you are sick, finding a replacement isn't quite as hectic.
The employees are fun to be around and make work less miserable.

Cons

Constantly cleaning up after people, be it customers or employees. It's part of the job but it's still fairly annoying.
The occasional customer, who is always "right", feels that it's "right" to yell at you about something that is completely out of your control.

Advice to Senior Management

Avoid long conversations in the back office. They may be relative to the company but do not sustain priority over other functions that need attention.

Pros

flexible schedules, and cross training

Cons

no degree unqualified store leaders. Square peg in a round hole.

Advice to Senior Management

store leaders should have bachelors degrees and DL's should have higher level degrees. Watch university students that are expressing a desire to continue a career with your team and nurture them and listen to them. Work to promote them. They are your future more the food.

Pros

Pay, benefits, hours, opportunities, and co-workers

Cons

Sometime decisions come down that do not seem practical or in line with other goals.

Pros

benfits,hourly pay was 8.50 back in 2003 for all new hirerees

Cons

too much drama between co-workers ,store leaders showed alot of favortism.

Advice to Senior Management

Help more instead of talking on phone gossiping smoking and whatever they do in there little cubbyhole offices.

Pros

People are nice and job security is good since the company is still making money. But that is about all I can say that is good.

Cons

Worked at corporate for 4 years and 1 year at retail. Departments do not work well together, no communication. Salaried employees are expected to work 50+ hours even though they are salaried at 40-45 hours. The benefits are not good, everyone says the 40% profit sharing is so good, the bonus checks don't amount to a substantial amount of money. I would rather get paid more during the year and forget about the bonus. The amount of vacation you get is really low.

Advice to Senior Management

Realize not all people are married to there job and don't want to work 24/7. Update the benefits package and give people some vacation instead of making them work a year to get 5 days of vacation.

Pros

Great way to get management skills while still attending College.

Cons

Not much advancement for college graduates.

Pros

A clean environment with clear goals and objectives.

Cons

Shift work (any time, anywhere), low pay (decent among competitors but not enough to maintain a living as a part-time co-worker), no/low benefits. I've been with the company for two years now and am still waiting to be "full-time" in order to receive benefits, decent hours. Only after a promotion that my Store Leader was reluctant to hire me to, am I now able to work a semi-regular work schedule.

Advice to Senior Management

Turn-over is high, benefits and pay are low. Which comes first?