Pros
•Not required to have a cosmetic license to recommend skin care and makeup. •Clerks are not really pressured for sales goals because, most of the time, managers and assistant managers are NOT around unless you call them through the intercom. •Benefits ONLY apply to full-time employees which are: store managers and assistant managers. Sorry! Every other employee is part-time! •Employee Discount is only about 30% on CVS brands... it doesn’t work on much. •They might work with your school schedule if you have time in the company. •Minimum wage is $11
Cons
•Only part-time hours for non-management staff (I can only speak for non-pharmacy associates). •You work ALONE in the front of the store because management is usually in the stockroom or running a round the store and putting products away. •The work is tiring because you cannot have any other human interaction besides customers and on top of taking care of them (which is draining for only ONE cashier every 5-6 hours), you must keep front of store pristine AND stock merchandise AND answer phone AND work in the photo lab, in other words, expectations are ABSURD. •If you mess up one week, they cut your hours to a bare minimum... forcing you to find another job which is what I am doing now. •The makeup department is a mess and customers easily steal stuff from there because it’s far away from the register and as cashiers we are not supposed to be too far away From the front. •CVS DOES NOT have a care for their makeup department because they are more of a pharmacy. It sucks that as clerks we help customers the bare minimum with this because we are stuck at the register and it’s always only ONE associate on the floor every shift so we cannot spend much time talking and suggesting items to them. •STOP cutting employee hours and put more than one other associate every shift because we need the support on the floor and YOU need to make store goals. Think about this CVS, if you have more employees on the floor helping customers then you would be able to meet your sales goals every day. We DONT meet them because we barely have employees in the store!!! Get real!! •My store has a mice problems and some customers started noticing them more where candies are under the register. Disgusting and unsanitary!! I hope they close that store down.