Pros
You can choose your own work schedule, take any time off that you want, and can move up with the company fairly quick.
Cons
The pay is horrible for all of the duties they expect. You are alone in the store a lot of the time. If you aren’t buddies with the DM you won’t get higher positions. They allow managers to hire people in at higher pay than people that have worked there for years make. The yearly raises are a joke. As a Store Manager, you are required to work 6 days a week. Employees never get to enjoy their days off because they’re constantly getting called in to work. The company keeps adding more duties, while not increasing the hours allotted in your weekly schedule. Plus during the pandemic, while every essential employee company was paying their employees hazard pay or bonuses, Dollar General slapped their employees in the face with a joke of 1 bonus for about $200 the whole pandemic. ASM’s are required do the just as much work as the SM (if not more) but the SM is the only one who receives quarterly bonuses.