Pros

Staff great! Having the support you need...very well prepared.Fun & Busy atmosphere loved the customer loyalty. Can learn alot about retail within a small setting.

Cons

Lack of growth, Favortisim, Over worked EXA's due to salaried position. MGT's are paid more than you and you are there BOSS!!! The small bonus you recieve annually doesn't equate to the time you put in. Doesn't compensate you at all.

Advice to Senior Management

Leave the Politics to the Government. Recognize the leaders within your store and commend them on lending support to see to it that they pursue their goals. Upper Level Management get more involved as to how your region promotes. Be aware of the favortism that is shown.

Pros

It is a strong position to launch one's professional career. It builds many of the basics necessary to suceed in the business world.

Cons

The job is very borin and there is a huge turnover rate. The managment does not seem happy to be there. Customers can be difficult to deal with.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat lower level employees better. A happier workforce will lead to a better overall walgreen's experience for customers and employees.

Pros

There are flexible schedules. Compensation seems comparable. As long as you have the right store manager, the job can be fun and rewarding.

Cons

You have to be willing to swing shifts including midnights. There are far fewer advancement opportunities now that the company's strategy is switiching to from expansion to cost control. If you have the wrong store manager, then in can be an intolerable situation. Some managers do not seem to understand there are only so many ways to build a toilet paper floor stack.

Advice to Senior Management

I think the company is moving in the right direction.

Pros

Good benifits. Good co workers. Good pay. Good hours. Everything good. Also it looks hood on your resume. Good luck

Cons

At sometimes it get vert boring. Some customers are not nice. The managers shows favortism to other workers. More good than bad.

Advice to Senior Management

Just make minor adjusts to management and respect workers and employees to keep up with competition. But overall very good

Pros

Good benefits, pay is market value for someone with an associates degree.

Cons

Depends on your manager. For the most part the cons are what you make them.

Advice to Senior Management

Some politics are involved to move to management level. Get to know the right people and network. Don't kiss butt, and you'll be okay.

Pros

Good benefits, good flexible scheduling, bound to find people you'll enjoy working with, excellent place to learn good customer service

Cons

Poor communication between managers ensures headaches with learning what to do on a day to day basis
Weak starting pay, as well as non-existent (or minimal) bonuses and raises

Advice to Senior Management

Work on communicating for effectively what exactly needs to be prioritized any day of the week. More feedback on what is working well and what isn't, and reward systems for people that go beyond the bare minimum

Pros

Decent pay, good benefits and room to move up if you can take the long hours and some bad store locations.

Cons

Long hours, not enough hours between shifts, alot of manual labor, unloading trucks, stocking shelves while dealing with angry customers.

Advice to Senior Management

Management puts unreasonable expectations on your shift. You could have a list of things to do 20 items long that have to be complete but your running around doing refunds and customer service half the day.

Pros

pay is pretty good, sometimes you get a good store manager

Cons

nothing is guaranteed, no job security, hours are anytime they feel like, no life for most employees,
the changes to SIMC duties don't even pass the Walgreens own 4-way test. .

Advice to Senior Management

Why do we have District trainers who have never done our job?? It is frustrating to us as we try to work. They keep coming up with "GREAT IDEAS" that a person who does the job can tell won't even work and we are too busy to mess around.

Pros

The pay. While still in college, I was able to do a summer internship as a retail management store intern. I was making 14/hour, which is pretty good. I definitely had to do a lot of work, hard work, but the pay made it bearable.
Also, the experience. Very few places are willing to give you a CHANCE at working at a manager position, with no experience. Walgreens did that and I appreciate it.

Cons

The biggest downside was the level of work. I was worked so hard and there is really no way to finish all the work given in a 40 hour work week. Thus working overtime. BUT, the company is so anti-overtime, I actually had to work a lot of "off the clock hours." I'm a hard worker, but it really wore me out.
Also, as for the general health of the company, I don't think, compared to CVS, it is a very healthy company. But they seem to take care of their people better than CVS. Only time will tell if they survive the level of competition.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more open to allowing employees overtime, or be willing to hire more. It's a very tricky balance between your cost and revenue, but being overworked is never a good thing. I was basically an assistant manager for my internship, and as an assistant, I believe they should be on a salary basis, or we should have a little more leniency in allowing us to work overtime.

Pros

Up until recently, there haven't been any clear Job Descriptions or Roles and Responsibilities. This really gave people with initiative an opportunity to create the career/job they wanted. As long as you act like you know what you're doing, most people won't know the difference and leave you alone. As long as it appears you are contributing to the bottom-line somehow, you could make a whole career of this.

Cons

Senior managers are all over-worked. They have too many responsibilities and they become roadblocks for a significant amount of work at lower levels. Every manager is only concerned with "managing up" and employees are left to fend for themselves (this can be a pro if you're a individual with tons of initiative and a little bit of arrogance). Many managers got promoted because they were "next in line" or they were the "favorite". Most have no idea how to manage people and are only concerned with what their boss thinks is important.

Advice to Senior Management

Deligate!!! Be more concerned with what's going on with your people rather than your manager. MANAGE your people - don't manage your boss. Don't be a roadblock. Ensure your people are working on the right tasks - don't assume. Make the work count.