Pros
7-Eleven's initial commitment to veteran's through their veteran recruitment program is an awesome program. Their training under this program prepared me in initially as I transitioned as a store manager. Starting as a store manager with no retail experience is a great way to prepare me for the field, giving me credibility as a Field Consultant. As a store manager you feel the full effect of retail from the start giving enabling you to have a sense of what store managers and franchisees go through daily.
Cons
&-Eleven is a franchise based corporation. As a store manager I felt that corporate store managers took a very far backseat to franchisees. Store manager receive little to no support in their daily store operations, often have to beg barter and steal for staff support on a regular basis due to high turnover, staff callouts, etc. Stores can go months with only one manager running operations with little reliance on staff to complete management tasks and are forced to complete a myriad of these tasks with little to no empathy from upper management with regards to how short staffed most corporate stores have. When I asked one Market Manager for a status on possibly getting an assistant manager, the reply was "you will get an assistant manager when your store makes $3000 or more in sales per day." This in my opinion is not the right answer, as daily store operations are constant whether the store makes $3000 per day or $200 per day in sales. I felt as do many other corporate store managers that the bottom line was more important than those working for the company.