Pros
I personally loved my job, I love retail, and I loved my customers. I miss merchandising, I miss my customers. I'm probably the only person, that didn't gossip back and forth between stores about how much they hated their store or their job.
Cons
I always gave 150% and then some everyday, and it always went unnoticed. While the Store Manager did nothing but collect a paycheck, broke every rule, had customers and vendors disliking him, and cost the company significant amounts of money to have a Smart Team come to our store every few months to help us catch up (because he didn't believe he needed to work rolltainers during the morning shift everyday) at which time he was the only one on duty. His laziness also cost us significant amount of money in shrink, all things that never got him written up. This is a terrible company in general to work for as they do not take care of their genuine, caring, hard working, honest employees who really want to be there. They will make you open the store alone, and work 7 hours without relief. Customers would get upset, causing you to work faster to shrink your line, and having possible mishaps with your drawer being over. In which you would be written up. Yet, those amounts and an honest employee, didn't in any way add up to all the overages & shortages of the Mgr. and Associates drawers everyday, expired food and all the totes stacked up in the back room, from items that were never appropriately marked down. Yet, if you're making a high hourly rate of pay, and they need to hire, they'll fire you, in order to hire two people in your place at minimum wage. I was always written up months after the fact of a cash incident. I was told, "we pick and choose our battles" and that I wouldn't be written up. Well when the payroll budget was consistently low, because DG expects you to run a store on less then normal amount of hours needed, they'd pull out their"battles." I'm not the first person they did this too.