Great for first time retail experience, not for long term career.
Pros
- Decent health benefits. - 30% off CVS brands and 20% off everything else (excludes prescriptions, gift cards, etc.) - Vacations are given as long as you request +2 weeks before. - Learn general basics of retail. - Overtime is rarely given unless you are worth the pay/work to help out another store.
Cons
If you're looking for growth within a company, this is not for you. - Tasking wise, the titles that go from cashier, photo tech, head cashier, to shift supervisor are all basically the same. Only difference is you'll either have to do photo and/or be the key holding ALONG with doing all the tasks everyone else has to do. (Tip: Don't offer to do truck or photo unless you enjoy it or else you'll be stuck in those positions forever. You won't get brownie points for sucking up, you'll just be making yourself miserable.) - Photo and beauty departments are falling apart. Both departments in every store have no direct report above them since they were all let go nationwide in the past couple of years. Therefore their direct report are the assistant/store manager and district manager, except the district managers are usually too "busy" in their corporate office having absolutely NO perception of time for the tasks given. Basically just like every other corporation, there's always that one person above you who has no idea what they're talking about because they've never done it themselves to know what it is that you do. - Pay is awful. Cashiers get paid from a range of $7.50-10 (no different from any retail company). However, Photo and Shift supervisors get paid from a range of $9-13? A little ridiculous when shift supervisors will get paid only a few dollars more to do push, cycle counts, pull truck, ring, customer service, photo, AND open/close the store as manager on duty while your assistant manager may do the same along with damage/product withdrawals and payroll except they get paid 2 or 3 times amount. Especially now that assistant manager are no longer salary (changed to hourly due to a lawsuit), and they are just bringing home the bacon working 45 hours per week and getting that extra +5 hr overtime plus extra if they decide to stay later the last day. Problem is CVS would rather rotate incompetent employees for $8.00 every once in a while instead of paying a competent worker that would stay much longer and do a lot more work. I understand it's all about profit, sales, and customer service...but good luck being successful in all three categories when you have unqualified workers while getting rid of the good ones.
