Walgreens reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(37,151 total reviews)
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23% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,151 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Walgreens employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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37K reviews
3.0
Nov 8, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is pretty decent for managers. Benefits are good (holiday pay, vacations, profit-sharing, discounts), though health plan could be better. The locations are many, so having one near your home or being able to transfer if you move are plusses. The job isn't brain surgery, it's not too mentally difficult.

Cons

The hours are crappy, esp. when you have to work the late shift one day and come in early the next morning. Two days off in a row is a rarity. The job is very physically demanding at times (receiving and managing freight, doing resets). Long hours on your feet - lots and lots of walking. Endless task lists and busywork. Often incompetent store managers or EXAs. Little room to advance quickly any more. Promotions based on popularity versus ability. Skills not valued. Training is horrible from day one, and never gets better. You're basically on your own, and neglected.

1.0
Nov 8, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Walgreens does have the best 401K, Profit Sharing.

Cons

I work in Chicago district 9, I've been with Walgreens for 12 year's and the way assistant manager's & employee's are being treated is insane we bust are ass and it is never enough no matter how hard we work to get work done all we here is criticism or get are butt's chewd out because we did not get 1 work task done, it is impossible to please store manager's who sit in the office all day and talk on the phone and on facebook on there cell phone , executive manager's most of them walk around the store & write note's and give there work to everyone else while they pretend to work in the stockroom, & district office just don't know what's going on in the store's. MORE TO COME

1.0
Nov 4, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

They pay you a dollar or two more an hour for the same job title as other places. The catch is that they require you to do a lot more. You get holiday pay whether or not you work on the holiday. You have an employee's discount. Some customers are sweet and some workers are nice but they come from all across the spectrum.

Cons

-They cut hours and ask for more, more, and more. Imagine if someone asked you to watch an hour long movie in 50 minutes everyday. Now imagine that each time they ask you to do that, they reduce the time that they want you to spend doing it. Impossible. There's simply not enough people to do the job right. You can work hard, get that blood flowing, and the adrenaline going but keeping up with the work, doing the job right, and satisfying management and customers all the time is too hard to do when you don't have enough time. The stress will lead you to an early death and a bigger paycheck for upper management. They stress efficiency but they must have no idea that there is a limit to how effcient you can be before you have to start sacrificing quality. As a result customers get angry, you get upset, management wonders why/knows why and has to side with the customer anyway. Walgreens will fall if it keeps this up.

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