Walgreens reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(37,103 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 37,103 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
Mar 8, 2010

Foundered on the rocks

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Trying out lots of new ideas and evolving strategies. Opportunity to make a positive impact for customers and patients. Can work on projects to support the company internally or externally. Many good employees to work with and plenty of challenges professionally.

Cons

Work life balance is not very balanced. A combination of hard workers and slackers with few employees in between. Shifting priorities and hard to achieve goals with vary levels of support to achieve those goals.

1.0
Oct 20, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can move around the country and still stay with Wlagreen

Cons

1)Bad upper management.2) The loss prevention people treat you like a criminal. 3) They make you work very hard for the money.4) Lack of support and help from the District Office. 4) You cannot wear any lapel pin (not even a pink ribbon for Breast Cancer support, or the American Flag).5) They are good at making the pharmacy a chop-shop meaning you have to process 60 to 70 Rxs an hr without adequate help:They are setting you up to kill some unfortunate patient!!!!.

4.0
Oct 5, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good opportunites for becoming a store manager; above average salaries for store managers of retail chain pharmacies, profit sharing is well above industry average with regards to matching. Store technology is overall very good - hiring and training systems, pharmacy management systems, inventory tracking systems are all excellent, with POS systems lagging far behind other retailers. The rumors are the POS systems will be overhauled in the next few years.

Cons

Lack of opportunities above store manager level; preferences for promotion to DM position generally given to minorities and females. The company is still growing at a fast clip but store support is dwindling as the chain grows (i.e. more stores in each district, payroll being cut to dangerous levels, district staff spread too thin among too many stores, etc.). Hourly wages for store staff (clerks, photo techs, and beauty advisors) are very low compared to other retailers but competitive with other drugstore chains. Very hard to attract good talent when all you can offer someone is $7.50/hour. District Managers do not support giving store clerks anything above a 3% yearly raise, so turnover is high.

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