While I enjoyed my working relationship with my beauty consultant peers and management related to being a beauty consultant my general experience with instore management was a complete disaster.
Had a terrible manager that was extremely racist and misogynistic, would frequently degrade employees to the point of bringing them to tears. I witnessed outright racist comments and discrimination. After contacting HR they did nothing to protect me or maintain anonymity and did absolutely nothing but the bare minimum.
There’s a passé outlook to bigotry and the general mistreatment of employees particularly in regards to how lower/upper management treats employees under them. Having worked in the beauty industry for years I was completely blown away by the lack of compassion Walgreens has for its employees. Barring all of this the location I worked at was lucky to break even let alone make profit month to month, if that’s not a clear indication of complete failure in terms of management then I don’t know what would be.
I would avoid this job if at all possible and stick with working at a counter..not only is the job/company culture better but the commission and pay is better, there’s more room for advancement, more foot traffic/customers so more sales, and finally you’d be working for an established brand with proper equipment and sales strategies. Walgreens is basically winging it after they acquired boots, their attempts at offering a higher end experience and selling prestige is a joke within the industry. If you have cosmetic retail experience or have experience as a more...
