Could be great place to work - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Jan 8, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Very stable company, Good pay,good benefits and overall do your job and you are left alone. Depending on your boss, if you give 100% effort you will be taken care of. Of all my walgreen bosses I only had one who was truly clueless of what happened in the stores.

Cons

Company seems to be stumbling at the top. Once you work in the inner city they keep you there. You feel trapped. Not enough feedback from district manager. With the growth the last few years they have people in positions that have no business being there. That starts from the top all the way down to store managers. If you do not have a college degree you will be left behind. No matter how good you are at your job. They would rather have a mediocre college grad than a spectacular non college grad?????

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Cons

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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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