Good Job. - Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Aug 1, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay for retail management with fast promotion opportunities. The profit sharing plan is excellent you'll receive 3.30 for every $1 contributed. Starting off you receive 2 weeks paid vacation.

Cons

Promotions are based on office politics not job performance. They will transfer you to different stores often making you travel up to an hour drive, if you decline a transfer you will never get promoted. They work you on holidays. You can't use vacation time during Oct 30 - Jan 1, also you must use vacation time each year or you will lose it.

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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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