Pros
Benefits are decent, the people you work with and develop are amazing. Good for entry level managers to get their feet wet with disappointment.
Cons
60+ hr work week, constant short staff and skewed labor budget. Bonus is possible (and decent) when taking over an under performing location but they change the goals when you start going against your own YOY numbers, making bonus virtually impossible. If you grow sales you win... Unless they make it impossible to do that. You will always be chasing your tail Upper management is very disorganized. You are expected to "run it as if it's your own" but are handcuffed every step of the way. If you are a talanted business manager with a high level of business acumen, this is not where you want to be. It's so easy to increase revenue, decrease costs, keep employees and build a top performing location but AAP gets in their own way as their worst enemy. Hard work and top level performance does not get you anywhere, you have to "play the game" to get ahead.
