Pros
In this position, Jewel does have an excellent training program. You get an overall view of how a grocery store truly functions with all of its smaller departments contributing to the whole. The health benefits are fairly standard.
Cons
Jewel cares only about the bottom line: profit. Once you become a manager, you must withdraw from the Union and are therefore at the mercy of the corporation's constant demands. At that point, they expect you to work ridiculously long hours with little to know help and expect perfection. Highly unrealistic expectations/sales goals are continually thrust upon you. Overall morale of the average store and its workers are dismal to say the least. Vacations are of course allotted, but just try to actually take one. Many managers are called in on their days off with little to no regard to their personal lives. Very little flexibility. They also transfer their staff constantly. Four stores in one year is just too much. One needs time to learn their customers so that they can be more effective in how they sell to each individualized consumer. Constant change at that pace is simply disruptive and not conducive to building a strong team within any department. The whole point of a Store Management Trainee is to groom these people to someday become Store Directors. However, these individuals are seeing how negative all facets of this company and position can be. They are driving this human capital away instead of drawing them in.
