Pros
Competitive pay and benefits compared with other retail jobs. Starting pay is $8.50, after half a year you get vacation time and after a year you get access to full insurance and dental. You also get sick days and personal days. It is generally a safe job with decent benefits if you are looking to work in retail. As long as you don't call out, steal, or drag your feet, you will get hours and in 5 years I saw no lay offs, even when the economy sunk.
Cons
You will never receive recognition for the work you. Unless you are close with upper management, you will never see promotions. Raises are given automatically so that is not an issue, but if you seek to move up to Shift Team Leader, Assistant Manager or Exec. Assistant Manager, it depends on who you know, not what you do. Walgreens is the type of company to lead employees on with the promise of promotion, only to find out later that your hard work and efforts to prove yourself have been in vain. More often than not, the promise of a future promotion is a tactic to pile more work on employees and work them harder and the promotion will never come. Also, Walgreens (especially the Staten Island district), is extremely sexist. Females will never get the recognition of male employees, or the same promotions because they are often looked as as "useless" in many regards because of the assumption that women will not be able to do the same tasks physically as men. Perhaps at some jobs, but there is no task at Walgreens that is so physically demanding that a woman would be unable to do it.