Micromanagement is running wild at Walgreens - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
21 May 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits package, great computer system, pharmacist compensation is fair and based upon local market trends, store employees are very friendly and talented and make sure to take care of each other.

Cons

Upper management is extremely profit driven to the point of obsession. Micromanagement of the pharmacies and stores is epic and bothersome. Staff is treated more like numbers and dollar signs vs. living, breathing human beings with emotions.

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

Was always able to work with my on my schedule and was always a reliable workplace little surprises

Cons

My area had a lot of scary stuff happen and a lot of time I was at the front all alone just left me feeling unsafe at times as a teen.

3.0
25 Jun 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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