Pros
Walgreens offers a great pay rate per hour. Depending on where you work in the store you can make up to $15/hr. before becoming a salaried manager. The company also guarantees a 2/1 match on 2% of your pretax income for a 401k program. Anyone can retire with a profit sharing program like Walgreens'. Also, Walgreens employees get a 15% discount on all Merchandise in the store and 20% off of all Walgreens brand products. There are many opportunities to move up within the store. A cashier who shoes ability and competence can easily move into photo or pharmacy which pays more. Once you attain those positions and show a desire to promote to management, being enrolled in a college business program will almost guarantee a management job if the need is there and the time is right.
Cons
Being a smaller store there are times when staffing issues can arise. There are times when, as a manager, you have to run photo by yourself and still get your own work done. Or pharmacy gets behind on their scripts and you have to spend half the evening helping them get caught up and still get your work done. There are times where the job can be very stressful, but it all correlates to the crew you have at a given time. Certain employees absolutely drain a manager's patience and make the job much harder than it should be, others make the job a breeze. Also, most of the time we run out of Ad items before the Ad is halfway over, thus there are many complaints and rude customers that wear a manager down very quickly.