Pros
- You'll get paid at slightly above minimum wage - Very flexible with hours - Employees are nice - Stock vests if you stay for 3+ years - Good benefits for retail - Tuition reimbursement
Cons
- Inconsistent scheduling - Rigid pay structure - Hard to move up without friends in management - "Dead-end" retail job work - Pay raises are every year, usually doesn't cover cost of inflation - Publix does not like paying OT Publix was a very mixed bag for me. The employees obviously feel like they need the "Customer Service attitude" when on the floor but seem like genuinely good people when they can take the mask off. The customers could be really hit or miss since the culture Publix cultivates usually results in those who feel very entitled. I joined as COVID was about 6 months in, and at the time we had raises that would happen biannually. This got changed to annual raises which still didn't cover the cost of living. I was consistently getting my pay "bumped" by 25-50 cents with the minimum floor getting raised 3 months later. Scheduling for hours usually made it so you wouldn't be consistently hitting 40 hour weeks. Time off would cause your hours to get slashed to 20 or less for the following weeks. As Publix always has people calling out from the department, you often get called in if you are part-time, and they know that you will say yes most of the time. This leads to an abusive cycle where you could end up working 9+ days in a row covering other shifts.