Typical Retail environment - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
17 Nov 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

At first pay was great I was getting raises about every 9-12 weeks, then it went to once a year

Cons

If you aren't a "favorite" employee life can be rough. Even if you go above and beyond what your job description is it usually meant little to management. There wasn't a team mentality it was more like every man for himself and to be a successful business there has to be a sense of team. Management spent alot of time in office and not on the floor assisting employees as well as customers. Got attitude when you asked for assistance with a task, which involved two people.

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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
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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