Walgreens Reviews

Pros

Benefits package for full-time employees (30 hours or more averaged of 12 weeks), Dental provided in package, Retirement and investment opportunities provided to employees, Provides health insurance to domestic partners as well. When the company is not in a hiring freeze, it is fairly easy to transfer from one store to another or from district to district.

Cons

They are trying to save money by cutting employee hours and not filling some positions once they become vacant so they can move other employees around to plug the gaps. They are trying to do more and more with less and less.

Advice to Senior Management

We really need you to be more employee centric again. As a retail facility it all comes down to customer service and experience. One way to ensure both is to have the right people and make them happy. Over time the good employees may leave and if they don't leave their level of job satisfaction will drop. Nothing will ruin a customer service experience more than an employee who doesn't see it as anything more than a job.

Pros

Good salary and benefit package.4

Cons

Not as much time off for family and personal time with no overtime pay.

Pros

Great training for management, good compensation and benefits, 100 year old company.

Cons

Uncertain of new direction, hiring and promotion slow down

Advice to Senior Management

"More from the core" isn't working.

Pros

The store became a sort of family, and even after I left I still enjoyed visiting and catching up with my former colleagues.

Cons

Some corporate failings in regards to managers, who were often mistreated by their superiors and occasionally passed this maltreatment on to select employees. Store managers receive the short end of the straw, at least from my point of view (below manager).

Advice to Senior Management

Please ensure that your district managers are looking out for the best interests of assistant and store managers, not just the store owners.

Pros

good benefits, discount is nice

Cons

unreasonable tasks, terrible policies that allow for customer abuse, terrible scheduling on holidays and slow days

Advice to Senior Management

they wont take anyones advice they just want their money

Pros

It has good benefits for its employees

Cons

Working with the public is not always the best...Plus they are changing the management structure and I am not for it.

Pros

Company is changing direction...looking to change the management structure...

Cons

Looking to have people do the same job for less money...see store team lead

Advice to Senior Management

Keep customer satisfaction as priority...then the money will follow

Pros

Great compensation and benefits package. Very clean facility, room for advancement.

Cons

It can be difficult to advance and there are limits on how far you can go.

Pros

Flexible with a school schedule, easy, repetitive work, offered raises after being with the company for a certain amount of time.

Cons

Some customers were rude, sometimes stuck doing more than your job for the day, doing shelf resets was really unpleasant.

Advice to Senior Management

While I was employed by the company, I felt like the leadership was perfectly competent. I really enjoyed working with my managers.

Pros

As a pharmacist, I have certain freedom to do my job

Cons

Too many pettiness from middle management where it create a hinder to my job sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

Less politics in the work place