Pros
The company has training programs to help you develop into the next level. The company often promotes from within. Store leaders get to attend an annual party at home office. The company has fund raiser drives for children. With special needs. The discount is 30% off everything including clearance product. Dress code includes jeans, sneakers, and sweat pants/leggings.
Cons
District managers are promoted from within. Although they must prove themselves through a DMIT role they often are not fit to be multi unit managers. These rookie DMs are often unable to provide the necessary support to the store managers they over see. As a store manager you should except to get a new DM over year or so until the company starts sourcing or training better candidates. Very little pay roll for even high volume locations. Store managers must work well over min. 44 hours to accomplish the amount of operational work required. Often times payroll is so thin as a store manager you will be forced to also become the stock associate as well as you will not have the payroll to support the 10s-100s of cartons of shoes you will receive weekly. Additionally, assistant managers are paid hourly, they are not to go into over time, and are paid so poorly the are key holder quality at best. Further more, sales associates are now paid min wage with no option for commission. They could easily make the same amount of money or more folding tee shirts somewhere they have zero responsibility, rather than meet several different sales goals and climb ladders for you.