Store Manager - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
May 15, 2018
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Pros

Walgreens used to be a great company to work for until it merged with Boots Alliance. Compensation was great, benefits well above average, great culture, stress was lower.

Cons

Over the years salaries have been capped, bonuses restructured and payroll budgets decreased, yet the work load remains. Store managers are miserable. District Managers that are supposed to be there to help you are there to police you. The current trend is to cut payroll dollars by getting rid of higher paid managers at the store level and corporate.

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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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