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
1.0
Jun 22, 2022

Just a humble opinion

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Pros

The longer you're with the company, the faster the PTO builds up.

Cons

Seniority and knowledge doesn't matter, you're pushed to the bottom of the totam pole. Seasoned personal are trapped in one small spot, while new hires are free to walk around, and screw everything up, and the seasoned personal has to clean up the mess, and take heat from the customers. all in the name of "learning and fairness." Budgets are extremely for staffing, staff is beyond a skeleton crew, staff is stretched beyond the limits and braking point. You're stuck at the register for extended amount of time, or the entire shift, and still expected to get still expected to have a reset across the store completed, have compliance completed, and many other tasks completed by the end of the shift. We're more times made to feel inadequate because of the fact we weren't able to complete anything. Set scheduling had been taken away from seasoned staff, and given to new hires, those who's been with the for years working for a high pay, when we get there, the people from the street, new hires will receive the same amount as the seasoned personal. Cliental are allowed to abuse the employees, and nothing can be said, except the employee needs to improve their behavior. Fairness is given to a group selected personal (newer hires), while the rest of us get the slaby seconds, or the worst made to feel like we're nothing.

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Walgreens Response
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At Walgreens, we strive for fair and equitable employment practices as well as providing room for advancement and growth. We're sorry to hear of your experience and will provide feedback to our leadership.
2.0
Apr 1, 2022

Poor leadership management

Recommend
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Pros

Decent PTO policy. Individual team supervisors are supportive of upward movement. They are often receptive to requests and suggestions: they encourage individual investigation and presentation of issues and solutions and if appropriate will escalate to discuss with team managers for review of solution implementation.

Cons

Pay incommensurate with local cost of living. C-suite and other leadership make very poor decisions without considering long-term effects. For example, not considering financial effect of merging with a PBM to become ARxWP SP (from Walgreens SP) and subsequently "having to" cut employee hours to make up the shortfall. Opening multiple unnecessary call-centers with poorly / untrained staff resulting in errors requiring very expensive corrections and many, many complaints to insurance plans. These and other poor choices contributed to 50% loss at the beginning of the calendar year, resulting in mass layoffs as of this writing.

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