Pros
Good wages and benefits for managers. Good products with few customer complaints. Liberal return policy to help provide good customer service. Beautifully designed new stores with lots of inventory.
Cons
Corporate representative visits to the stores are a terror. All managers within each region communicate furiously trying to assist each other in preparing for each corporate visit. Corporate personnel have a degrading and demoralizing effect on you and your assistants. Corporate representatives often say "Treat it as if it were your own store", but of course you cannot implement any strategy of your own without facing extreme criticism. Corporate expectations regarding labor hours per task are completely without reason. There is no operations manual, and policies change constantly.