Any thoughts on Baker & Taylor?

Baker & Taylor are hiring a part-time merchandiser in a store I frequent quite a bit. I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with them? Low Pay? Insane demands? Great people? Pleasure to work for?
It is for a craft store taking care of the books and DVD's.

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I've been working for them since December and I love it. Pay is about middle-ish amount but I got started higher because I had what my DM considered lots of experience. I think the regular starting pay is around 9.50/hr and then you do get raises periodically I was told but don't quote me on that starting pay, it's been a while and I don't know that I remember exactly what she said it was. Work is EASY just putting out books every week (twice a week during Q4) or twice if you have a high volume store. It rarely takes me the full visit time anymore though I was told to put in the whole time (I have 2 hours per store) even if it doesn't take that long because sometimes it will. There are seasonal resets of a kids/teens book cube that takes less than an hour and you once in a while will get a section to reset (kids, mainline, art etc) and you do get adequate time to complete those. There are other little small projects some of which are included in your weekly visit time and others are add ons but you get the adequate time to complete those as well. . My DM is a peach and I love her. She's responsive and full of energy. Honestly she's old enough to be my mother and can work circles around me. I don't do DVD's, that's usually TNG if it's the same craft store I do. You report via Natural Insight. They do pay mileage between stores and you get some amount of extra admin time at the end of the week that you enter via that Natural Insight page.
Thank you so much for the info. I will have to ponder on this one. This is a solo store, so I don't know if it would be worthwhile. If it was for 2 or 3 stores I would probably jump, even though that starting pay is way lower than average for this area. I usually can negotiate up on that anyway. I am very familiar with Natural Insight, I use it for one of the boutique card companies. Usually love it, except when it times me out when placing a large order.
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