Pros
Health Insurance. Higher pay if you have tenure. Guaranteed hours. Paid holidays. Paid vacation. 401k.
Cons
If you are a hard worker, management will take advantage of you big time, and so will your co-workers. Co-workers will do less knowing you will pick up the slack. Management expects you to get twice as much work in half the time. When you are ready to leave after your scheduled time, your boss will tack on last minute tasks for you to get done before you leave. Then, management wonders why you are working more than your scheduled hours. Expect to work every holiday and weekend. The more tasks you know how to do that no one else knows how to do, the more is expected from you. You will then have to rearrange your family and social life to fit around the needs of the department you work. If no one else can be scheduled to do the tasks you know how to do, you have to work those hours. It doesn't matter what is going on in your life. If you are full-time, your life belongs to Jewel-Osco.