r/petco

NOT interested in the typical Reddit responses of I’ll hate my job, petco sucks etc etc. I have a great store & a great team. I just am trying to see what most people in that position get paid before I ask for what I want. For reference I’m in NYC. Thank you!!

I just had a walk through with two corporate manager and I come to find out they searched everyone’s grooming drawers and even threw away my drink and took a spray out of my drawers that I bought at Petco. Has this happen to anyone else’s Petco? And if so are they allowed to look at your private belongings.

so me and my husband go into the petco near our house a few days ago and we were getting fish, you know whatever they swim in water, fish, we got what we wanted and then asked the employee for clownfish cause we couldn’t find any. The employee said “like saltwater? clownfish?” and I said “yea” and then they were like “oh they’re on this side” and showed us, but we couldn’t see any.. I cant tell if they were joking or what so I said “we don’t see any” and they asked “do u mean like clown loaches instead?” but that isn’t what we wanted we wanted clownfish and they asked “ur talking ab like CLOWNFISH right? yk like nemo?”
we both said “yea” and they said “yeah that’s what these are” pointing to a bunch of black fish with white stripes and orange fish, so I said “you said these were saltwater?” and they said “yes, u have a saltwater tank right?” and my husband says “where r the freshwater clownfish?” Cause yk that’s what they had in Nemo, and the employee really said “there’s no such thing” so I said “well we had one in our fish tank but it died after like two days.” The store sold us a bad fish. So I said “well we want another one” and the employee just kind of froze for a bit like they were thinking about something.

honestly interactions like this make me question humanity sometimes. any time we go to get clownfish people give us this same rigmarole. and 8/10 times they don’t even let us get the freshwater clownfish :(

Has anyone else recently had issues getting Petco/Vetco to send a prescription to a third-party pharmacy? I was told they will no longer send prescriptions electronically to outside pharmacies and that they also won’t send certain longer-term prescriptions. Supposedly this policy changed within the last month?
This seems absolutely ridiculous and unnecessarily makes it harder to shop around for affordable medication. Has anyone else dealt with this or found a workaround?
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fuck the fucking ugly new shirts and fuck whoever makes the fucking store playlist

My store is a B volume store. We have a GM, ASM, OLAC and 1 Keyholder. Im one of the managers

Said keyholder is "supposed" to be part time but is always scheduled at least 30hrs. they're exhausted. I asked to drop to 30hrs (bc ya know thats still full time for petco) and its impossible. Just wondering what it looks like for others bc we are told we cant have a 2nd keyholder...?

How are we feeling about the new shirts?

I’m honestly confused/a little hurt. I have a good standing with my current GM and store manager, even was encouraged to apply for the manager position. I updated my resume and talent card. Two weeks later, i checked my workday an hour ago and got a rejection notification. My application is still showing active, but probably hasn’t updated. :/ I just wanna know why. They didn’t say anything to me when I was at work yesterday. It felt like a normal day with them.

so this couple came in earlier and they were getting fish, FRESHWATER FISH. i bagged them all up and they were like “do u have any clownfish? we didn’t see any” and i was like “like saltwater? clownfish?” and they said yea and i was like “oh yea they’re on this side” and showed them. and they’re staring AT THE CLOWNFISH and go “we dont see any” and then i was like “wait, do u mean like clown loaches instead?” bc like yk, they were getting freshwater. and they said no. so then i was like “ur talking ab like CLOWNFISH right? yk like nemo?” and they said yea and i was like “uh yea that’s what these are” and the guy was like “u said these were saltwater?” and i said “yes, u have a saltwater tank right?” and he goes “where r the freshwater clownfish?” and i was like there’s no such thing. and the wife goes “well we had a clownfish in our tank but it died in like 2 days so we want another one” uhm like uh yea no dip it died bc u guys have a FRESHWATER tank and clownfish are SALTWATER

honestly interactions like this make me question humanity sometimes. any time anyone shows interest in any saltwater fish i always have to start with “u know these guys r saltwater right?” and 8/10 times they don’t even know even though we have a giant sign that says SALTWATER on our saltwater fish😂🤦‍♀️

My GM let me know that effective yesterday, we no longer need to bother customers at checkout with the autoship BS because corporate finally realized that it’s not actually a good deal for anyone, I guess too many people complained about the surcharge.

This cannot be normal and I'm being fr when i say this, a 16 year old came in with his mom and wanted to buy a bearded dragon. I asked them all the normal stuff like what they had prepared and stuff and evidently they had nothing ready. Which fine that's pretty normal so I was like 'hey you should get ur tank established before you buy any pet' and the mother was like 'okay well we know we want a 10 gallon tank we'll just buy everything rn'. I was appalled because bearded dragons get huge and when we house them they are usually babies not full grown adults. So I told her that I would only sell her a beardie if she got 120 gallon or over (I explained what they needed like their basking spot and their cool spot and how it wouldn't work in a 10 gallon) she said I was lying and told me to get someone else to talk to her, so I got my manager and expected them to say the same thing, but they didn't and sold this lady a bearded dragon and the 10 gallon tank they picked out originally. Not to mention they got a vcp so they preceded to call it out in the group chat.

It's pushed soooo hard to the point of being extremely shady. And I've been told part of it is supposed to go back to location shelters? What if your store doesn't have an adoption partner?

As If I Spoke The Nightmare Into Existence, I'm Hearing Cross-Training Was Brought Up On Last Monday's Call?

Can Anyone Confirm/Deny? Is This Why Positions Were Dissolved? Is This The Next Way Petco Abuses Their Employees?

Specifically SFS Stores Training PTers To Do It? Just Seems Like Pick Rates & Box Counts Gonna Get Ffffffffff'd Up

Tune In Next Week To Find Out!!?

Please take me through the work day