Not What It Used To Be... - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Oct 7, 2010
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Pros

The Walgreens retirement plan called Profit Sharing offers a guaranteed 2 to 1 match...one of the best plans out there/

Cons

Walgreens has changed over the years and not for the better. As store manager, 70+ hours a week was a norm simply because the majority of each day was spent as a pharmacy technician, not managing the store. "Rewiring" was meant to take work out of stores to equal the reduction of the workforce but that never occurred. Work would be done to meet the satisfaction of our District Manager but would have to be changed if a visit from the Regional Vice President was possible (a lot of times, projects would be changed back to what they originally were...busywork). Store managers are not given the proper manpower to manage a store.

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Cons

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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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