It's a great foot in the door - Assistant Manager (MGT) Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Sep 9, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Walgreens provides the basics of retail in a reasonable package. You learn how to bust out some freight, merchandise, deal with customers, and handle some cash. Depending on your store manager you will learn more or less. I happen to have worked for some very talented people and so I have learned far more than others in my position. If you take on additional tasks and keep your head down, you will be rewarded. T

Cons

The challenges with WAG are that you often times spend most of your day dealing with freight. I feel as though all WAG stores have an inventory problem and it is difficult to merchandise such a diverse array of goods in small spaces. WAG has made strides to reduce product selection and increase shelf capacity but it is still a far cry from workable. Additionally, we carry crap. Customers buy crap and then return it because it breaks- this drives me nuts. It is a waste of time for all involved, let's charge a little more for a decent product.

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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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