Shoppers Drug Mart Reviews in Edmonton, AB Area

Pros

great pay and benefits if your full time
support from managment of course depends on your particular store and how its run, you can't rate shoppers as a chain based on one store

Cons

timekeeping system is to finiky and tends to lead to an hour or two loss on paychecks
the pos system is ancient
major cuts and job losses right now due to recession and generic drug issue
pay for cashiers to low

Advice to Senior Management

every managment team is different depending what store you are at.
Managment has to follow corporate rules, some staff do not like the changes but its out of the store's hands.

Pros

- I always had lots of customer interaction
-I was always busy during every shift: lots of things to get finished

Cons

-Imbalanced workload.
-Very low amounts of promotions for "younger" people. (This could have been just my location)
-Commission earned was NEVER broken down and shown to me: I think that our boss had a way to get us ripped off. One month I only made $20 comission, on quite high sales.

Advice to Senior Management

-Never underestimate a young, pretty face.
-Have a better communication strategy with your cosmetics department about the Cosmetics Managers hired. I was very unhappy with most hired: I wound up training them! And they were the ones making the big bucks.