Pros
This isn't really a pro sometimes the company runs 50% off for employees. But the reason they do is in hope it makes the companies sales projections for the end of the quarter/year. Just for wallstreet.
Cons
-payroll given is barely enough to open the doors, customers can count on: 1. Waiting forever checking out on the weekends. 2. Never receiving help on the sales floor 3. Walking into a store that is a disaster -Buyers have no clue what they are doing, they buy things they personally like and then buy 100x more then the stores can sell. -corporate is more worried about catching employees doing wrong than anything else. Cameras in places just to watch their employees, not actually to manage the real Loss prevention (external theft) -freight flow is so heavy that most stores backrooms have over 100-150 pallets and no payroll to work it. Can't even walk in most back room. Absolutely no replenishment on things you sell. -inventory is catered to upper middle class to wealthy but everything At Home sells may look pretty but is overpriced JUNK, literally complete JUNK. Items are either going to break before you get it home and if you get it home chances are it has mold. Countless corporate recalls because of mold and/or unsafe to handle. -At Home uses the lowest bidders (vendors) tons of recalls on endangered wood from rain forest.