Walgreens reviews

3.0

34% would recommend to a friend

(37,055 total reviews)
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26% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,055 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
2.0
Aug 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Annual salary is 40,000 and the 401K is 3.05 for every dollar you invest. They promote store manager only from within which is good and bad. Good, because the store manager, in most cases, started as a cashier and could end up as a store manager, district manager, or regional manager. Bad, because without the right training you can be promoted too fast and become nothing more than a gloried stockboy who never learned the proper leadership skills needed to have successful staff.

Cons

The management position involves long hours, stocking shelves, and working several weekends in a row! Scheduling is supposed to be fair, but unfortunately for managers it is not. There is a lot of heavy lifting, pressure, and poor feedback with this position. You work really hard, but nobody notices or says any thing.

3.0
Jul 28, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Easy to do if you are a pretty lazy person which was great for me in the beginning.

Cons

Big downside is if you have a crappy store manager. From what i heard its great and easy to advaNCE if u have a good manager that isnt a drug addict. SHe has a huge stash and would give you inpossible duties, and when i would do them 100 percent she would show me this facial expression of horror and tell me that I'm lucky that no one wants the night shift. Also I would get blamed for stealing that i never did.

3.0
Jul 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Quick advancement. Pays well for what you do. Not a bad company to work for.

Cons

It's retail. All retail sucks because of customers. Somewhere, at sometime, someone told a customer "the customer is always right" and customers have taken this concept and run wild with it. Instead of it meaning that a retailer should provide a product or a service when a customer wants and how a customer wants it they have taken it to mean that they can be disrespectful and piss all over you and that you should be grateful for it because they are spending $3.00 on a prescription which you, the tax payer, who is working their ass off, is paying for because they have Medicaid. Walgreens will hire you as a "manager" but you will spend most of you time stocking dog food on shelves. When you are not doing that you will be patching up problems that your subordinated have created.

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