Growth is probably the biggest issue in the company. It is extremely hard to get promoted. If you do well at a lower level job, you are fit for that lower level job and don't deserve to be doing a higher level job. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted! The managers often don't know what they are doing, but they say that our retail experiences don't qualify us as managers.

When started in the sales side of the business, it's hard and sometimes discouraged to advance to the corporate level. There is a virtue " No advancement to corporate " policy; Advancement within retail is possible but hard to achieve. In the corporate level, advancement in the lower ranks comes rather quickly and easy. But there is a major blockade at the middle rank management.

A lot of the comments here on growth are related to the retails stores. In the corporate firm, they believe in hiring within, which makes growth opportunities quite good. This may be another reason why "outside" retail store members cannot be promoted into the corporate structure. Also, sometimes it would be harder because most people at the high level are very comfortable about where they are at.

If you work at a store and perform excellently, while knowing how to suck up, you can get promoted within the retail store. However, there's almost no chance to get into the corporate office through this medium.