Management Denying Job Opportunities

Anyone else work in a store that management will tell you that you can't apply for a new position in the store or that if you do you will be denied because you are too good on the sales floor? If you're a high performing sales person and want to move to the warehouse or Geek Squad they will basically stop any opportunity you have so they don't lose a good sales person. I find that to be the opposite of what a good manager would do. A good manager would encourage any job growth or any want to do something different in the company. Our management is just such a joke.