Pros
The benefits are good for a similar size company (401k, 6% match, reasonable health ins. costs) Dealing with new situations daily (contracting jobs, supplying, logistics) As a manager, you run a store and its operations (Sales/HR/Logistics/Inventory/Operations). Great training and experiance for any of those fields.
Cons
-Hard Retail Hours (48 minumium - usually 55+) PT will call you for help during all hours off as you are the store manager/leader and SW only usually budgets a Manager, Asst Manager and 2 (20) hr week employees...equalling (3 FTE) total employees. -Time off is hard if you have a family for vacations because of low staffing levels - hard to take a week off -Staffing - Often times you will work the store alone and you will find yourself with multiple customers in the store...and you find yourself making the decision between wholesale customers and DIY. Wholesale wins everytime!!! -Sales focus is great...but managers have little time to perfect skills...due to no help in store. Figure out if you want your Store managers to Manage the store...or be sales Reps!!! There is no time to focus on both in a single week!!! -Inventory needs to be given a priority....you cannot tell a contractor you will not have a product b/c you are OUT and the next stock truck is a week away...Customer service should be doing everything possible to get stores merchandise to customers if they need it before STAR. Of course our customers will got to Lowe's or Menards....