Pros
I worked at a factory store in the outlets so it was a smaller scale retail experience. Because of this though, I feel like I got the oppertunity to work in all different parts of the establishment in a relatively short time. Dressing room, checkouts, returns, retagging, phone calls, changing manequins, working the floor, unboxing new product. I know that sounds mundauin, but I think having touched a bit of every aspect set me up to be really prepaired for other job (especially retail) in the future. I mention this as my main pro since I have friends who worked at places like tj maxx and dillards who mentioned that they really would only do dressing room or putting products back out on the floor which is great for ease of the labor, but I think I learned a lot more hard and soft skills working at ann taylor.
Cons
The numerous tasks and exposure to many different types was sometimes a physical and mental burden especially towards the end of my time there where staffing became an issue.