Walgreens review - Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Apr 15, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

It is a good job to start after college. They will hire you as an assistant manager as long as you have a 4yr degree, doesn't matter if its not a business degree. Walgreens are near the top in the country in hiring from college. They offer a good profit sharing plan. It is a pretty easy job, most of the work that you do is stock shelves and count cash drawers. There is good pay once you get to store management level with yearly bonuses.

Cons

Training and development depends on who your store manager is and so does how you get promoted, its all about who you know and less how hard of a worker you are. It is retail so you will be working weekends, nights, and holidays. In my district the only shifts available to work are 11-7 or 2-10:30, so it does leave much time to spend with your family or friends. Recently there have been a lot of changes at Walgreens due to the economy and they took overtime away from assistant managers which ended up being about a 15% pay cut. There is not a lot of communication between corporate/district offices to the store level.

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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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