Not a bad company to work for... - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Apr 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are great, they pay on average over $3 to ever $1 you invest in profit sharing retirement. There is excellent advancement opportunities if you work hard and shine in your current position. They probably allow more flexability for there management staff to manage then most companies. Great potential to earn a very good bonus for store managers I have known some store managers earn as high as $60,000 just in bonus which is paid out once a year usually march for previous year. Very affordable health and dental insurance choices for you and your family. They offer you decent amount of payroll hours to run your store on average non 24 hour store has 550 hours and 24 hour stores as high as 1000 hours per week.

Cons

Alot of pressure from corporate, they do expect you to drop what you are doing at a minutes notice to make changes in the store. You may have to work very long hours if you have anyone visiting from corporate and the District staff is always way over stressed during these visits. I actually enjoyed my job more as a assistant manager or executive assistant more then a store manager. Reason is once you are in the store management position its like walking on egg shells every day for fear of losing your job. Walgreens is a very conservative company and you always need to cover your back...

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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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