Pros
Sporting merchandise can be enjoyable to work around, the discounts can be very decent on certain items, a lot of skills learned here are valuable for management and understanding business structure, and training seems to be pretty thorough.
Cons
Profits for the company are at a stand still at best, new stores opening don't necessarily create more company profits but just steal business from other big-5 stores which makes raises or any pay increases difficult to give to employees. the company has a high turnover rate because of the lack of solid pay increases also. Obviously, weekends and working all sorts of holidays is a con of retail as well. The lack of a decent internet lay out or any capabilities of ordering online severely hurts this business and at this point of time I would project a decline in revenues and overall company standing for the next 5-10 years. Should be a stable job and one that many could enjoy, but not really moving forward.