Pros
Great in store team building and mutual understanding of the challenges of upper management. In store employees were very supportive of management and went above and beyond to help with the enormous work load. Everybody worked so hard, but the feedback became very negative rather than postitive and in general the employees are tired and feel undervalued (and they are).
Cons
The in store culture has changed tremendously because everyone is physically tired and there is very little positive feedback anymore. People are simply used as bodies to get work done. Store managers do not have a voice in their own business. This company was very fortunate to have so many talented business people in their stores, but they have taken away the passion and intuitive side of managing and turned employees into robots. The people that could not abandon their internal passion and drive are the ones that have left, little by little the remaining staff is basically average, boring and incapable of bringing anything exemplary to the table. Very sad!!