Walgreens reviews

If you work at any other store be prepared for the suck. Since the Walgreens family left power in the company it has become much less customer oriented and much tighter fisted. The current CEO Greg Wasson is running the place into the ground by trying to make it more like CVS. This increases profit margins by cutting customer service. Customer service was the company's hallmark and without that it's just an expensive Walmart so why wouldn't customers go to the cheap Walmart. The result is that they're squeezing the employees. Benefits have been dropping. The vision plan has gone from an insurance plan to a discount plan and I got a better discount on glasses last time from the discount the doctor was offering to new customers walking in off the street. The insurance has gone down in coverage and up in premiums. The profit sharing plan has gone from $3 per dollar you put in to an even match just in the 5 years I worked there. They're also removing the props that support employees. They're going to start making regular clerks do returns and exchanges because they're about to drop the entire assistant manager staff. If you're looking for a managerial position don't go here. They're about to drop the entire assistant manager position chain-wide and offer to rehire everyone at $13 an hour. At that rate they're only going to be able to keep crap people who will shirk and steal from the company because the crap you have to deal with isn't worth that little. That means the store managers and EXAs who are salaried are going to have to work extra hours left and right to cover shifts people quit on. The store managers still make decent money although their bonuses have been getting squeezed and cut, but the EXAs were already making an equivalent less per hour than an assistant manager and now they'll have to deal with a lot more and put in even more hours with no raise in pay. All-in-all Walgreens used to be a decent place to work (to listen to the older employees it was even a good place at one time) but it's been in decline for a decade or more now and shows no signs of getting better.

Walgreens pharmacies are practically ALWAYS open, so while you would think this would offer a lot of flexibility with a work schedule, it just means you are required to work ridiculous rotations of 7+ days in a row, several nights per week, every other weekend, and if you're lucky, you will be required to work only half of the 6 annual holidays, every year, for as long as you work for this company. Pharmacy budgets for tech hours are always ridiculously low; pharmacists are frequently over-worked, with ever-decreasing budgets for tech hours & ever increasing demands to perform additional tasks & duties (sell more shots!). The mid-level management positions of Pharmacy Manager & Pharmacy Supervisor have a very high turnover rate (due to managers quitting). Pharmacy Managers are not really allowed to manage, but are micro-managed themselves & treated like babysitters; they have no real authority, but are issued all of the blame regardless. The end result of this very high turnover is that districts are typically short-staffed, as such, underqualified & undertrained individuals are often promoted just to fill positions which, in many cases, must be legally filled or the pharmacy would have to close down. While Walgreens "talks the talk" when it comes to training programs & leadership programs (and they can point to leadership development courses that they offer) - it is all worthless if what you learn in the training is neither valued nor implemented in actual, daily operations - they fail to "walk the walk".