NOT a good place to launch a career. - Pharmacy Technician Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Jul 6, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- Best pay for a retail position. - Best technology.

Cons

- Hours are constantly being cut while the CEO makes >$4 million. - Mangers never give thanks for going above and beyond and there's no benefit for doing so. - Hiring freezes at the store level and booklets being distributed about job positions being eliminated make every day feel like the last one. - The Four Way Test and Walgreen Creed are being phased out. - No room for promotion since company wide cuts are happening.

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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
Recommend
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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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