Pros
If you plan to make it a career, they will consider this. there is some extra money in bonuses and stock after a year of employment. You meet some amazing people of all walks of life. Student to senior, and everything in between. Most job in publix are not too hard. College reimbursement if related to a career in publix. If you are lucky enough to get into the pharmacy, great hours and holidays off. For the rest of the store, you are not getting Easter, thanksgiving or Christmas off working for any other grocery store. Also, Christmas bonus for full timers rock (40 hours of pay). Us part timers got 8 hours pay Christmas bonus.
Cons
With all of these benefits, will you believe working for publix is hell on earth? No set schedule. Especially part timers. Sometimes you work till 1130, then open at 6am next day. I found requesting time off resulted in "punishment" of less hours and closing every night. I know some people are very happy, but the remainder are really not. There is no in between really. If you are a favorite, you can no call/no show countless times, be excessively late or sick, even get complaint after complaint with no major consequences. Unfortunately, the rest of us work really hard for little or no recognition. Our schedules are changed last min, and when this happened to me, I had plans, I was told "Well your plans are gonna change, arent they?". They never miss a chance to call you in, even on a class day, and if you tell them no, they put a guilt trip on you. Yet the people calling out sick never hear a word about "not being a team player" or "now we're screwed" If you are a student, limit yourself to one class or your hours will be severely cut. I understand availability, but class one night a week should not result in half hours of before you went back. And if you want to transfer, good luck. I had been trying to transfer for 2 years before I quit. They obviously kept hiring people. The one time they offered me something else, I would have had to quit school and it would be an additional job class, not a transfer. Yet they brought more and more people in. The kicker was a new front end employee was transferred to the bakery. I had wonderful attendance, willing to work if I possibly could, great customer service, stellar reviews, yet I was stuck breaking my back frying chicken- the hardest most dangerous job in publix! I quit to go to school full time! I dont want to risk ever having to go back there!