Walgreens reviews

Walgreens is bound and determined to treat their online entities the same as their retail stores. 1) The review process has questions and ratings directly tied to retail store jobs/KPI's - and are so structured there's not a lot of room to detail accomplishments unique to online. 2) Goals for some groups are absolutely incompatible with management's stated desires, and in fact the word 'management' is used very loosely. Most of them who want to stay on are working hard to ingratiate themselves with Walgreens execs, and either avoid giving straight answers to questions, provide little to no guidance or outright lie to employees. 3) On the other hand, and detrimentally, Chicago management has gotten very involved in day to day life and they absolutely do not get online retailing. drugstore.com is hemorrhaging resources as more and more find better salary and move to companies that understand the online space. 4) Additionally, health benefits have tanked in comparison to the market, and there is no longer a good work life balance (one VP said they 'didn't believe in working from home' like its a mythical creature. 5) So between only average pay, reduced benefits, shoddy management, little work-life balance and a not terribly bright future (which looks like merging walgreens.com and drugstore.com) there isn't much to reccommend in a city that also has Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Expedia, et al

Store manager should spend more time supporting the pharmacy, according to the stats 70% or more of the revenue is generated by this "department". After all, Store Managers have giant bonuses to protect (which calculates to 10-20 times more than the Pharmacy Manager), which if anyone is checking my math brings a Store Manager's gross salary (maybe, a high school diploma) to the same or higher gross salary than a licensed Pharmacist and Pharmacy Manager (which minimally has 6 to 10 years of college education, including additional advanced degree work.) A little reminder, you need a licensed pharmacist to operate a legal pharmacy. Technicians can be incredibly valuable and cost effective members to a smooth running pharmacy operation, but are not legally essential. The pharmacist's job is not just throwing tablets in a vial, staring at a computer, and making telephone calls. Anyone working for this company ignorant enough to promote these stereotypes really has no business entering a pharmacy. Being questioned by management about patient care by someone with no healthcare background is shocking, my trying to explain( from pharmacology, law, ethics perspectives) why a pharmacist's decision should not be over ridden by them, and don't get me started about Management, NOT ME, repeatedly violating patient's HIPPA rights.