POWER leaves you POWERLESS to give good customer service - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Oct 28, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It is a paycheck you definitely earn with blood,sweat,and tears. If you have seniority or are in management --there is security,\.

Cons

No work/family life balance --all schedules stink. You pretty much have to work every other weekend, holidays, and through season without time off until you have A LOT of seniority.

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3.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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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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