Pros
Good benefits/retirement plan. Decent place for a part time or second job.
Cons
Slave hours. Expect to work 75% of the weekend days. Expect your 2 days off to be split up throughout the week. If you are under 30 years old they will schedule you for most of the night shifts and say you can handle it because you're young. Pay is just enough to keep you from quitting. Very few new stores being built recently, which means less oppurtunity for advancement. Store Managers sit in the office and do paperwork all day, while Assistants and cashiers do all the actual work. District Managers come in the store once a month and give nothing but negative feedback and criticism. Corporate continues to cut budget hours in the store and expect fewer employees to handle the same workload. No raises since 2008, since you should be "lucky to have job". They unabashedly view store employess as interchangable parts. Employees are stretched too thin making it very difficult to consistently give good customer service which creates angry, belligerent customers and in turn disgruntled, hostile employees. Most co-workers are miserable to work with because they hate their jobs, workplace, and customers just as much as you do. But if you can put with all that for 40-50 years you can get a pretty nice retirement package.