good for students only - Beauty Advisor Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Sep 20, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Very reasonable about scheduling around your classes if you're in college. Managers give lots of feedback on your performance so you're never left wondering how you're doing.

Cons

No opportunity for career advancement. Some of my co-workers had been working there for over 5 years, knew the store in and out, and yet when an assistant manager left they brought in some one who had never worked at a Walgreens to replace him instead of promoting from within. In order to get full-time benefits you need to work an average of at least 32 hours. My store would purposefully schedule people for 30 hours so they could still be considered just a part-timer and avoid giving benefits. Walgreens is known for being open 24/7, 365 days a year. All employees were required to work two major holidays, without any extra pay. Come on Walgreens, even McDonald's has holiday pay!

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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.

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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