Only care about shareholders and stock price, all at the expense of the happiness of their store level employees. - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Nov 3, 2018
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Pros

Good coworkers. A strong push on development of employees (albeit with no payroll to do so combined with poor training resources).

Cons

Upper management (anyone above DM) only cares about looking good and trying to get promoted, and as a result have completely unrealistic expectations of the DMs and store level positions given the resources we have. Constantly cutting payroll and still asking of the same expectations. They want their cashiers (!) knowing about and talking to customers about things like: Medicare D, Flu Shots, and any other company initiative that comes down. Store Mangers are held accountable if any of the ridiculous amounts of things we are expected to make the cashiers/technicians do are not done - i.e., sell flu shots, talk to seniors about Med D, ask every patient to sign up for digital services, etc.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

Was always able to work with my on my schedule and was always a reliable workplace little surprises

Cons

My area had a lot of scary stuff happen and a lot of time I was at the front all alone just left me feeling unsafe at times as a teen.

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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