Setup for Failure - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
7 Jun 2025
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Pros

You get paid on time

Cons

Low staff levels No teams - staffing is so low you mostly work alone Safety - You work alone a lot, in high theft areas, with poor security. Money isn’t invested to keep things in working condition causing lots of safety hazards. Training is non-existent leading to safety issues. Lack of training - They’re staffed at such low levels there’s no one available to properly train anyone. Even pharmacists hired in are only slotted 100 hours or so to train. Patient safety definitely suffers because of lack of investment in training both in giving time to the employee to be trained and providing adequate people to do the training and invest the time. Awful Pay and inconsistent pay raise practices. Low accountability Poor work life balance Inadequate technology

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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.

3.0
25 Jun 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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