Great Pay lots of stress - Assistant Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
May 4, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Top reasons to work at Walgreens are Pay, Benifits and Advancement. If you put in the hours, perform the tasking, get others to work together you will definately advance in the company. If you have no desire to advance and want to stay in a non-management position your pay will not be great but the benifits are still awsome.

Cons

The down side of Walgreens is working crazy hours -days, nights, weekends and holidays. Working under staffed. Always having to do extra work when company "big wigs" are in town (which is often) because of fear of loosing your job. You have to play the game. When VP's visit the stores they say they want to see how the stores operate on a normal day to day basis. But, what they actualy see is the "visitor" presentation of the store. Everyone knows this but you have to play the game. I guess it works in a way because those managers that can't get the "visitor" presentation pulled together don't last with the company.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Work with your schedule if you are in school.

Cons

Low pay. I need to be able to multitask, run the cash register, and operate the Photo Booth lab at a fast pace.

2.0
May 31, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

pay was decent I guess

Cons

no promotions, no good management, a lot of people in positions that do absolutely nothing, very cliquey, constant checking in 1:1's, no growth in your career, favoritism, toxic environment.

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