Good place to start, not to stay.
Pros
1. Good for climbing the ladder and exploring other branches. 2. Technician Trainees get paid training and resources for licensing. 3. Pay is usually better than competitors depending on location. 4. PTO is reasonably scheduled (i.e. not a lot of PTO overlap; compromises are also made especially during holidays). 5. My store in particular had somewhat adequate staffing compared to others as majority of us were in a seemingly "float pool" at some point.
Cons
1. Physical environment is usually a mess due to lack of time to properly clean and the drastic workload. 2. Incredibly stressful production workload. Typical retail pharmacy things like rude customers, back-and-forth with MDs/insurance, etc. 3. Line management is difficult to work with. 4. Constant equipment failure with fax, printers, phones, sometimes software would freeze and crash.
