Run for the hills - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Oct 22, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

money and a good chance of advancement as long as you give up your whole life and trust the powers that be to treat you fairly and with respect. The compensation for store managers was significant.

Cons

I worked for them for almost 20 years and watched a corp culture be slowly dismantled.When assistant managers were required to have a collage degree real work that was required was put on others. The atmosphere turned caustic. While upper management was trimming costs including benefits more was required for less. Older longer serving employees were "encouraged" to move on. It was too sad to watch.

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3.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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