Great Pay lots of stress - Assistant Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
May 4, 2009
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Pros

Top reasons to work at Walgreens are Pay, Benifits and Advancement. If you put in the hours, perform the tasking, get others to work together you will definately advance in the company. If you have no desire to advance and want to stay in a non-management position your pay will not be great but the benifits are still awsome.

Cons

The down side of Walgreens is working crazy hours -days, nights, weekends and holidays. Working under staffed. Always having to do extra work when company "big wigs" are in town (which is often) because of fear of loosing your job. You have to play the game. When VP's visit the stores they say they want to see how the stores operate on a normal day to day basis. But, what they actualy see is the "visitor" presentation of the store. Everyone knows this but you have to play the game. I guess it works in a way because those managers that can't get the "visitor" presentation pulled together don't last with the company.

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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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