Walgreens Reviews

Pros

Decent pay compared to other Assistant Manager positions in other retail stores.

Cons

Not much. Growth to promotion is slim if you are not hard working.

Pros

-flexible shifts with ability to choose hours of work around during school semester. (depends on manager)
-friendly people, but varies from store to store.

Cons

-the job depends heavily on the managers, if you have good managers you might enjoy working, otherwise it will be frustrating.

Advice to Senior Management

- have growth opportunities for college student to join in full time position in management levels.
-have more opportunities in corporate positions for employees who are college graduates.

Pros

the people, benefits, and the employee discount

Cons

budget cuts are not fun right now

Advice to Senior Management

budget cuts :/

Pros

Good salary and benefit package.4

Cons

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

Pros

Anyone can work at Walgreens as a service clerk. The register (if you've never used one before) doesn't take long to master, and when your not ringing up customers, you just walk through the front isles straightening. for every 4 hours scheduled on a shift, you get a 15 minute break. (8 hours gives two breaks) and if the shift is over 6 hours, you get an unpaid 30 minute lunch.

Cons

The lack of things to do in Walgreens makes time go by slowly, the clock just doesn't seem to move. On the rare occasion that things need to be put up, this helps a little bit, but there isn't anything else to do.

Advice to Senior Management

Give Customers up front more to do.

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

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.