Target vs. Walmart -- Which One Is a Better Place to Work?

Honestly it all depends on the people where you work. I have worked for Walmart for over ten years and I love it. I live in a small country community and everyone knows each other and we all take pride in how our store does. We have a problem keeping store managers, since the community is small, its not a big sales store and so store manager pay isnt as high as in a big city. Our management team is very understanding if something happens, and is always willing to work around problems. I make a decent wage for my work. Our healthcare is good. I had surgery last year and it covered around 95% of the cost. Other than just a few minor disagreements here and there, I am happy with job. I enjoy working with the people there.

I worked at Target in the late 90's and it wasn't a bad place to work then. I had vacation pay, holiday pay, and great medical benefits. This was during the Clinton economic boom days, my first pay raise was better than any raise I'd gotten at my former retail job. By the time I left Target, three years after starting, I was making far above minimum wage. It was also a very team orientated atmosphere, when we had a great night in sales it would be announced over the income and we were thanked for our work and told to go pick up drinks and snacks on the house before we started our nightly zone. Our team leaders also never talked down to us. It was only my second job at the time right out of high school but I had a lot of pride in my department. I'm not saying things may not have changed since then but back in the late nineties it was a pretty good gig.

I'm gonna have to call BS on this. I've worked at wal-mart and half the cashiers that worked under me were former TARGET cashiers and they left because WAL-MART paid more. Wal-Mart started them at as much as 9.50 with experience or 9 without.

The people who were FIRED from wal-mart ended up going to target and trying to come back because "target doesn't pay enough"



Store managers make WAY MORE THAN what you posted - they have SIX FIGURE incomes! Assistant managers make 43k.



Also the door greeter position is a LIE - minimum wage is 7.25, no way they can make 6 and some change.

@ jesse

target tends to hire all at once. They have a 6 hour paid orientation for all the new workers.Honestly after your 2nd Interview you need to ask them what happens next or who you can speak too! if you don't you will be just added to the list of whoever they have to go through. target will interview Everyone who fills out or calls in.

The Target I worked at is Much better then walmart. Everyone is kind and polite to each other no matter what time it is. target puts helping others above making money or doing your job. I had no experience and they hired me ( im not a prettyboy ). Pay me 9+ and hour. much better pay and work then any of those fast food places and jobs i had over the years. Walmart to me is the fast food joint of super markets.

I tried Target many times in the past I also have experience and they never hire me. Target is not easy to get hired at they make you jump through so many hoops and interviews and even if you make it through two interviews you still get rejected later in the mail or email. Now I understand wanting the best employees you can get but considering the pay and type of job what's their problem? I honestly am starting to think target discriminates in some way. I see mostly pretty people working at target I don't see very many seniors or average people working at target very much.

Wal-mart on the other hand I got an interview tomorrow almost immediately after putting in an application! I doubt my interview process will be all that much of a chore ether.

have several friends who work at Walmart, and made several friends over many years at Walmart. None of them like working for Walmart. They say it is horrible, they aren't treated well. And ofcourse not paid well. The older workers get so tired standing, but not allowed to set even if customers aren't waiting for them. I have not heard one of my friends ever say they liked their job...

They're both terrible places to work.

Not sure where the data for this report is coming from but store managers for walmart depending on the size of the store are 80k -110k

I actually had two interviews on the same day for target and walmart when i was looking for a job. My first.interview was with walmart and it was during my interview that i decided not to take up their job offer. Throughout the interview the manager was very unproffesional because she was bad mouthing an employee who called out on their shift because of an emergency situation. Then she was very rude and would not give me the time of the day to explain why I couldn't work certain days. Well I did my target interview and let me tell you that there was nothing but proffesionalism and highly educated managers working there. They respected the fact that I had college classes on certain days and that I could only work a night shifts because I had to watch my daughter during the day. Once I started working there I was amazed at how everyone was a team player and friendly. The managers are very employee oriented driven and respected.the employees. Asking for time off didnt require much but a 2 weeks notice. Target is an amazing company to work for. Target cares about their employees 100%.

I worked for Krogers in Ohio for seven years, it was BAD (lack of employee appreciation among other things). Not to menton shifty behavior when dealing with employees. I was promised a transfer from my Ohio store to a store in Georgia. I get there with my husband (he had a transfer with his company & thank God his company was more honest) to find there was no transfer. I lost all my company time, my benifits, my pay rate. I had to be a re-hire. Then upon leaving the store in Georgia, the store had a gas leak. They made the employees work (breathing in the fumes). People were getting nauseated, disoriented. Needless to say, that was my last day with that company forever.