Company culture parallels that of Wells Fargo - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Jun 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

No college degree required to work Plenty of locations to relocate Plenty of overtime opportunities available due to high employee turnover

Cons

1. Poor compensation in regards to the heavy amounts of work that needs to be done. 2. Continuous budget cuts with no end in sight. 3. Inexcusably low staffing levels, especially in the pharmacy, which endanger patient safety. Higher risk of errors, accidental needlesticks, fatigue, and miscounts. 4. Unreasonable metrics and continuous rebukes from higher ups force employees to make questionable, sometimes unethical decisions to artificially inflate KPIs 5. High turnover, especially among veteran employees. 6. Dynamically inflating metrics which make meeting bonus criteria impossible. Everyone is set up for failure 7. Difficulty retaining loyal customers

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Work with your schedule if you are in school.

Cons

Low pay. I need to be able to multitask, run the cash register, and operate the Photo Booth lab at a fast pace.

3.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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