Walgreens Photo Review - Photo Specialist Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Oct 7, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

It's a great place to be promoted on the inside, if you stay long enough you will get great opportunities, and great benefits.

Cons

Loss Prevention is sneaky, and thinks irrationally. When they came to talk to me about some things they told me. "You know what you did wrong, if you tell me "I don't know" then your lying" My manager limited me to 1 class this semester, then fired me. So i was stuck with only one class. I feel like my manager looked for a reason to get rid of me. After I got fired, I found out that i was being underpayed compared to the others that started in my position. I was also promised numerous things when i was first hired, I put down pharmacy as my first choice and photo as my second. They didn't have a pharmacy position open so they put me in photo. Mr. Groene told me I would be the next to go to pharmacy when a position was open, when a position opened I wasn't even talked to. I was also promised that I would get the yearly review that decides whether or not you get a raise in august, since i would of been hired 2 months before the raise. I didn't even get the review.

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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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