Retail Jobs in Maine with F-1 CPT Sponsorship
Retail F-1 CPT sponsorship jobs in Maine are available across the state's major shopping centers, outdoor and recreational retail brands, and regional grocery chains. Employers in Portland, Bangor, and Augusta have historically hired international students for roles in merchandising, buying, and retail operations. Maine's tourism-driven retail sector creates seasonal and year-round CPT opportunities worth exploring.
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- Opens and closes the store in the absence of store management, including all required systems start-ups, required cash handling, and ensuring the floor and stock room are ready for the business day. Responsible for opening back door of store for deliveries.
- Completes product returns, order voids, customer refunds, cash drops to the safe, and provides change as requested to cash registers.
- Models and delivers a distinctive and delightful customer experience.
Customer Experience
- Engages customers and patients by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services. Resolves customer issues and answers questions to ensure a positive customer experience.
- Models and shares customer service best practices with all team members to deliver a distinctive and delightful customer experience, including interpersonal habits (e.g., greeting, eye contact, courtesy, etc.) and Walgreens service traits (e.g., offering help proactively, identifying needs, servicing until satisfied, etc.).
Operations
- Responsible for holding store keys to open and close without management as necessary.
- Assists with and coaches other team members to work with warehouse and vendor ordering process as the orders are created, reviewed, and received, including opening the backdoor for vendor deliveries.
- Responsible and accountable for registering all related sales on assigned cash register, including records of scanning errors, price verifications, items not on file, price modifications, and voids.
- Assists manager or assistant store manager in reviewing order exceptions on order release day and assists in reverse logistics (e.g., 1506, returns, empty package).
- Assists manager or assistant store manager in evaluating and developing displays, including promotional, seasonal, super structures, and sale merchandise. Completes resets and revisions.
- Maintains accurate inventory counts; maintains the accuracy of on-hand quantities including, but not limited to, basic departments, stockroom, and overstock locations.
- Assist with ensuring the Outdate program is followed with team members.
- Responsible for basic department pricing and making daily price changes; ensures proper signage is displayed at the store to support accurate pricing of products. Ensures any additional pricing tasks related to local regulations and/or regulatory compliance programs are completed accurately and within the required time frame.
- Assist with bookkeeping activities, including cash report, cash counts, ledgers, and bill payment as necessary or as requested.
- Assists with exterior and interior maintenance by ensuring clean, neat, orderly store condition and appearance, including requesting store or system repairs as required in manager absence, or as requested by manager.
- Assists with separation of food items (e.g., raw foods from pre-cooked) and product placement as specified by policies/procedures (e.g., raw and frozen meats on bottom shelves). For consumable items, assists in stock rotation, using the first in, first out method and restock outs.
- Has working knowledge of store systems and store equipment.
- Assist at Pharmacy out window as requested.
- Ensures compliance with state and local laws regarding regulated products (e.g., alcoholic beverages and tobacco products).
- Responsible for bag checks of team members before leaving the store.
- Complies with all company policies and procedures; maintains respectful relationships with coworkers.
- Completes special assignments and other tasks as assigned.
Training & Personal Development
- Attends training and completes PPLs requested by Manager.
Communications
- Serves as a liaison between management and non-management team members by communicating assigned tasks to team members when store management is not present.
- Reports disciplinary issues and customer complaints to management.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- One year of prior leadership, supervisory, or retail key holder work experience.
- Must be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English. (Except in Puerto Rico)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Prefer the knowledge of store inventory control.
- We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Obtains and maintains valid PTCB certification or pharmacy license as required by state.
An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.
The actual compensation that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits
Salary Range: $17 - $20 / Hourly
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision*
- Paid time off benefits
- Employee discount
- Retirement Savings Plan (401(k))
- Flexible hours
- Training programs
- with a 30-hour work week
INTRODUCTION
- Opens and closes the store in the absence of store management, including all required systems start-ups, required cash handling, and ensuring the floor and stock room are ready for the business day. Responsible for opening back door of store for deliveries.
- Completes product returns, order voids, customer refunds, cash drops to the safe, and provides change as requested to cash registers.
- Models and delivers a distinctive and delightful customer experience.
Customer Experience
- Engages customers and patients by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services. Resolves customer issues and answers questions to ensure a positive customer experience.
- Models and shares customer service best practices with all team members to deliver a distinctive and delightful customer experience, including interpersonal habits (e.g., greeting, eye contact, courtesy, etc.) and Walgreens service traits (e.g., offering help proactively, identifying needs, servicing until satisfied, etc.).
Operations
- Responsible for holding store keys to open and close without management as necessary.
- Assists with and coaches other team members to work with warehouse and vendor ordering process as the orders are created, reviewed, and received, including opening the backdoor for vendor deliveries.
- Responsible and accountable for registering all related sales on assigned cash register, including records of scanning errors, price verifications, items not on file, price modifications, and voids.
- Assists manager or assistant store manager in reviewing order exceptions on order release day and assists in reverse logistics (e.g., 1506, returns, empty package).
- Assists manager or assistant store manager in evaluating and developing displays, including promotional, seasonal, super structures, and sale merchandise. Completes resets and revisions.
- Maintains accurate inventory counts; maintains the accuracy of on-hand quantities including, but not limited to, basic departments, stockroom, and overstock locations.
- Assist with ensuring the Outdate program is followed with team members.
- Responsible for basic department pricing and making daily price changes; ensures proper signage is displayed at the store to support accurate pricing of products. Ensures any additional pricing tasks related to local regulations and/or regulatory compliance programs are completed accurately and within the required time frame.
- Assist with bookkeeping activities, including cash report, cash counts, ledgers, and bill payment as necessary or as requested.
- Assists with exterior and interior maintenance by ensuring clean, neat, orderly store condition and appearance, including requesting store or system repairs as required in manager absence, or as requested by manager.
- Assists with separation of food items (e.g., raw foods from pre-cooked) and product placement as specified by policies/procedures (e.g., raw and frozen meats on bottom shelves). For consumable items, assists in stock rotation, using the first in, first out method and restock outs.
- Has working knowledge of store systems and store equipment.
- Assist at Pharmacy out window as requested.
- Ensures compliance with state and local laws regarding regulated products (e.g., alcoholic beverages and tobacco products).
- Responsible for bag checks of team members before leaving the store.
- Complies with all company policies and procedures; maintains respectful relationships with coworkers.
- Completes special assignments and other tasks as assigned.
Training & Personal Development
- Attends training and completes PPLs requested by Manager.
Communications
- Serves as a liaison between management and non-management team members by communicating assigned tasks to team members when store management is not present.
- Reports disciplinary issues and customer complaints to management.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- One year of prior leadership, supervisory, or retail key holder work experience.
- Must be fluent in reading, writing, and speaking English. (Except in Puerto Rico)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Prefer the knowledge of store inventory control.
- We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Obtains and maintains valid PTCB certification or pharmacy license as required by state.
An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans.
The actual compensation that you will be offered will depend on a variety of factors including geography, skills and abilities, education, experience and other relevant factors. This role will remain open until filled. To review benefits, please click here jobs.walgreens.com/benefits. If you are applying on a job board or unable to click on the link, please copy and paste this URL into your browser jobs.walgreens.com/benefits
Salary Range: $17 - $20 / Hourly
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision*
- Paid time off benefits
- Employee discount
- Retirement Savings Plan (401(k))
- Flexible hours
- Training programs
- with a 30-hour work week
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Which retail companies sponsor F-1 CPT visas in Maine?
Maine's retail employers open to F-1 CPT students tend to be larger regional and national chains with structured internship programs, including outdoor and lifestyle retailers, grocery chains like Hannaford, and department stores in Portland-area shopping centers. Smaller independent retailers in Maine's tourism hubs occasionally offer CPT-eligible roles as well, though structured international student programs are more common at larger operations.
Which cities in Maine have the most retail F-1 CPT sponsorship jobs?
Portland is Maine's primary retail employment hub, home to the Maine Mall and a growing urban retail scene with the highest concentration of CPT-eligible opportunities. Bangor follows, anchored by the Bangor Mall and surrounding retail corridors. Augusta and Lewiston also have retail hiring activity. Coastal resort towns like Bar Harbor and Kennebunkport offer seasonal retail roles that may align with summer CPT authorization periods.
What types of retail roles typically qualify for F-1 CPT sponsorship in Maine?
CPT eligibility depends on the role being directly tied to your field of study, so business, marketing, supply chain, and management students are most commonly matched with qualifying retail positions. Roles in merchandise planning, retail buying, visual merchandising, e-commerce operations, and store management training are the strongest fits. Pure sales floor positions typically do not meet the CPT curricular relevance requirement unless tied to a formal academic program.
How do I find retail F-1 CPT sponsorship jobs in Maine?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for international students seeking CPT-eligible positions and filters job listings by visa type, state, and industry. Searching the retail category on Migrate Mate filtered to Maine surfaces employers actively open to F-1 CPT candidates, saving you the time of applying to roles that won't support your visa. Your university's DSO office and career center can also confirm which Maine employers have successfully supported CPT students previously.
Are there any Maine-specific considerations for F-1 CPT retail sponsorship?
Maine's retail market is heavily seasonal, with tourism peaks from June through September driving significant hiring in coastal and resort areas. This aligns well with summer CPT authorization windows for students on the academic calendar. Maine has a smaller international student population compared to states like Massachusetts or New York, so local employers may be less familiar with CPT paperwork. Proactively sharing your DSO authorization documentation and a brief CPT explainer with potential employers can help move the process forward.
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