Pros
Walgreens is a good starting point for those people just wrapping up their first degree who need a stepping stone to greater oportunities. If you have a college degree in a business related field, you are pretty much given a free pass to an Assistant Manager position. The pay is a little above average from what other retailers offer to someone who is just starting out on a career path. There are many benefits offered that you can choose to participate in including: health insurance, drug discount plans, profit sharing, a discounted stock purchase program, and life insurance plans to name a few.
Cons
If you work for this company at the level of Assistant or above you will have no social life. If you are salary (Executive Assistant) you will pick up the slack from the shortfalls that mandated payroll budget cuts create. Your schedule will be extremely varied and may on many occasions lead to you closing up the store one night and having to open it up the next morning. Also, you as a store employee will be forced to work hard knowing that you will probably get little to no recognition for a job well done. Also, at the moment, there is much uncertainty. Walgreens has never technically laid anyone off, but now people's positions at the corporate level are being cut and they are being conveniently relocated to a lesser paying position or asked to retire early. This is only a start. It will not be long until these job reclassifications trickle down to the rest of us.