Great Company, but tough job as a store manager - hard work & long hours - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
May 24, 2011
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Pros

Great people to work with at store level and good customers. Most of my best friends are Walgreen people. If you love a fast paced environment where you are never bored, then be a store manager.

Cons

Prepare to work 6 days a week (min 10 hrs/day), some nights and even holidays. You will never get 3 day weekends with a holiday involved. In the month of December you will only have a couple of days off and it is hard to enjoy your Christmas holiday when you worked 20 days in a row and you are exhausted. Seems you never have enough budgeted hours to properly run your store.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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