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4.0
1 May 2010
Recommend
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Pros

My boss is very generous as to who he's willing to rehire back as he's rehired me for about the 4th time. It's a great place to work if you can pick up and know what you're doing right away. The employees are great and the management is alright. The hours I do not mind at all. My store along with other stores are 24 hours so you can work whatever shift you desire. Customers are usually great, but you will get some very annoying regulars who come to the store. After 9pm, around this area, it tends to get wild with random druggies and drunks come into the store. It's whatever. We have to satisfy all the customer's needs. I do enjoy the fact that some people return their gratitude for giving them good customer service. I just wish some people would just praise and comment me and whoever deserves the recognition to the higher management or district managers so I can get one of those little pins!. oh and Profit sharing. don't skip out on that.

Cons

Promotion from within the company is quite picky. If you are not a "people person", then you will have the hardest time trying to become an assistant manager if you do not have any sort of degree. This new kid just got hired a month ago and already has more potential than I do because of his people skills while I've worked at Walgreens for over 2 years. In my store, there isn't much work recognition from certain managers. The managers who 'care' for the employees will actually tell them if they've done a good job or not while the other assistant managers who are think they're higher up tend to ignore good employee's works. It's not as 'professional' as you may think.

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5.0
16 Jun 2026
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Pros

The management is accommodating and doesn't ask of to much.

Cons

At one point the heat was out during the winter, but i'll say that this was only for about a week.

2.0
19 Jun 2026
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Pros

Gave me decent pay. Bought us little gifts and food at holidays.

Cons

Gave away one of my paychecks to another employee and refused to reimburse me because of issues with "their bank." My RxM created a hostile work environment showing clear favoritism for employees. Eventually, HR got involved, and I was no longer scheduled with him. I did not ask for this change, and actively resented it, because now I had fewer hours, meaning less pay on top of the $500 corporate had already stolen from me. They had no interest in training me or anyone else to become certified as promised. Over and over again, they hired people, ran out the time on their licenses, and let techs choose between paying to get certified elsewhere, or losing their jobs. The only thing Walgreens was passionate about was convincing patients that they couldn't even provide their regular medications to get vaccines. Often unneeded. The "patient care" calls are blatant and illegal marketing for vaccines, since Walgreens makes it next to impossible for a patient to opt out of it. I would NEVER get my medications here after seeing how poorly everything is managed, how unethical company policies and patient health were regarded, and how mistreated the staff were.

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