Best of luck to anyone that believes they will retire. Not being sarcastic but realistic. My advice is have a plan B and money in the bank. Spend sensibly and live within your means. You do not know when your name is "selected". Regardless of your top performance reviews, long hours, working through weekends, holidays and late evenings you will one day be on the "out" list. The bottom line to any public corporation is the dollar. Everyone is expendable at any level. We move on and take our experience with us. Everyone I have ever know that left or was asked to leave is happier and in many instances making more money at their new jobs.
Take it from me. A senior manager of 31+ years who was always happy to go above and beyond. My best part of the day was when I helped a customer, CAM, store manager or my peers. I was happy when I fixed their problems.
By the way, I was less than two years from retirement when they gave me the news.
Take care former AAP / CQ teammates!
Not the original poster, this was taken from @NTPYDpZ-1qah. I thought more people should read this, as I found it to be the indisputable truth.