Great Company....A Little Stressful - Assistant Manager Future EXA Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Dec 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Walgreens is a great company. One of the few companies, that during these economic times has not laid off 1 person. The area where I work, everyone that works in the district office is very competent. Some things I wish would change, but I know in time it will. Walgreens stock are doing very well compared to other Drug Stores. At Walgreens you are offered a chance to enroll in Profit Sharing. I have enrolled and my first year I deposited about $1100 from my pay and give you from 2-3 times that amount, which makes my new balance at the beginning of the year about $3000. That is Great!!!

Cons

As a manager we have a lot of work on our shoulders, its almost impossible to get all of the work done within in the store with all of the refunds, exchanges helping out the Pharmacy when needed and keeping an eye out for thieves. I love working for the company.

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5.0
Feb 25, 2026
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Pros

Worked well with my school schedule Friendly coworkers Supportive in growth in other departments

Cons

I don’t have any cons, I enjoyed this job.

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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