Pros
Starting pay with no experience is good. (Grocery pays the best) Good Benefits (Discounts, 401K, med, dental, optical, etc) Friends I work with. I've worked all of the major box stores as an LP person and Freds by far is the best of them all but is starting to fail!)
Cons
Management staff will walk past an issue and then call their associates to handle it. It's pretty much an us and them mentality. If you work in Grocery it is union and your pay will be decent. Other areas of The store aren't matched up. Starting pay is good but you will never see a raise no matter how hard you work or how loyal and dependable you are. New hires will make more than you despite your length of service. NEVER take a PIC position as you will handle everything for the same pay your staff gets and will have no say in correcting issues or associate problems. Moral is at an all time low with long term associates. They see new hires make more money with no time in or experience. No one follows policy anymore, managers ignore issues and don't support the staff and correct the ones needing it. Unless you go into a managers position, don't take the advancement. BUT, the job will be miserable because you won't have staff and Corporate will ride you all the time.