It depends on what District/Market you are in - Assistant Manager (MGT) Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Apr 14, 2010
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Pros

The pro of working at Walgreens, you are standing behing a big name. you get a discount on almost everything in the store. 15% on non-walgreens product, and 20% on walgreens product. Average like most companies 2 week vacations after the first year, profit sharing is okay, and discounts on the stocks.

Cons

It really depends on the district/markets you are in as well as what store managers you have. Store management for Indianapolis is very poor. The communication is terrible, the training is terrible, very few store managers hold any type of degree, but degrees are now required for advancement. Back stabbing is just terrible, you are told from management how to disipline your employees, and when confronted from employees, the upper management plays it off. The support is just down right disgusting. You can be a very hard worker and very supportive in trying to help upper management, but you are not supported if you dont know everything, in most cases the store managers dont even know everything. Consist changes throughout the stores, as far always moving the same products form location to location, this gets out of hand. You are pretty much just a glorified stock person with a tie. Walgreens is a good company, it just depends on the loaction/market/district you are in. Thier are far way too many Store managers that hold this title, that shouldnt.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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