Pros
Give the opportunity to advance without any real qualifications. In the right store, you may flourish, but that assignment may change Turnover is terrible. That should tell them something. You get discount hats.
Cons
"It's retail" is no excuse. Store management is a tool for them to use and discard. Will transfer you anywhere, regardless of your ability to travel there. Mangers, assistants are constantly in the crosshairs, hourlies are safer but may find themselves managers by vacuum in a very short time. You may work excessive hours due to manloading. 70+ hours a week is not unheard of for a store manager, because the manager must cover hours that are provided by the budget. Every manager's experience is different, be careful where you go, you can go from a healthy environment with good store security to a total wasteland in one transfer, then it's your fault when things go awry. Many stores have no security system for product retention and store management is fired after 2 bad audits. You are often in positions where you must run embroidery, watch the door, and do Point of Purchase in parallel. Corporate sales support is incompetant, and unresponsive to the people in the channel. Corporate would rather sell 3 dollar embroidery on a 20 dollar embroidery than a 36 dollar hat without it.