Don't apply to Walgreens Pharmacy. - Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Jun 30, 2008
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Pros

I've only worked in the pharmacy for 6 months, however I have been with Walgreen for 2 years so far. But one of the good things are flexible hours. It's a clean job, ok pay for a college job. Nothing more. It also depends who you work with. The pharmacists usually tend to be pretty decent people. But sometimes if you get stuck with an @55hole you just want to shoot him/her and then yourself. Walgreens offers a discount to its employees. This discount isn't that great, because you can go out to Walmart, Target...anywhere and still pay less without the discount.

Cons

Working at Walgreen has been a good experience, however it has it's downsides to it. You will have to deal with unsatisfied people 24/7. A never ending line of people in drive through with insurance problems and such. This job makes you hate people that come into Walgreen period. Technicians work through so many problems with a million people daily and our pay isn't satisfactory. There is a lady that is a senior tech, and she's been there for about 15 years and after a while, you do not get any more raises even though inflation occurs and prices are going up. I think you can get paid up to $16/hr. Working here is like a sweatshop.

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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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