Walgreens reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(37,099 total reviews)
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Mike Motz

24% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,099 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Walgreens employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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37K reviews
2.0
Nov 24, 2014

Changes

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Pros

15% discount on most items, 20% discount on Walgreen brand items. Profit sharing. Flexible schedule. Shift Leads can not be transferred since they are not management. Holiday pay.

Cons

When I first started with the company over 10 years ago, you received an extensive amount of training that prepared you for your first day on your own. Now you only get a week at max and you are on your own. If after a few weeks you are still not performing up to expectations you are disciplined. Pay has been decreased by a lot. I took a 25% pay cut when the company restructured in April 2014. The company continues to put more on our plate without giving us any extra hours to be able to get the job done. When they job does not get done across the company, they add it to a KPI to monitor it more closely show they can send out daily emails asking why stuff is not getting done and what are we doing to improve it. The company operates at normal store hours every day of the year 8 am till 10 pm. The main reason they are making so many cuts is due to the purchase of a European company to set them up for a global market since they have maxed out in the US market. This was not a cheap buy so to please the share holders they have to make cuts where they can to make sure the stocks don't suffer. As with most public companies, the share holders come first, customers second and employees last. You no longer get sick days. You must use your PTO time to be paid. If you call off 9 times in a year you lose your job.

3.0
Nov 3, 2014

The Greens

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Walgreens is a good company to work for in the retail sector. They try their hardest to promote an open door policy and depending on the type of management team a particular store has, this method can prove to be effective. The great thing about this company is that most of their management staff have started from the bottom as cashiers or photo technicians and progressed - all you have to do is show that you are a hard worker, and that you have interest in progressing in that specific field and the management staff has no problem grooming you (if time permits).

Cons

There are WAY too many company initiatives and programs that are pushed onto the employees the moment they are hired. The company cares more that at any given time you can successfully regurgitate ECC or Cultural belief definitions than they do about employee training. While they do attempt to teach and reteach, it is very noticeable when upper management puts pressure on mid level management, who then gets frustrated and all but yells at employees.

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