It all depends what store you are working at - Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Aug 17, 2011
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Pros

You receive relatively good pay and benefits for managers at a stable employer. Everybody should work retail for at least a part of their career as a personal growth experience. If you get into a good store situation with proper staffing levels it can actually be an enjoyable job.

Cons

Training is minimal despite stated policy otherwise. Policy is you move stores at least every two years, increasing the probability of serving time in a bad one for quite awhile. Some stores are understaffed, which means you preside over a slowly declining store quality as things get pushed off or not done at all. Constant cost cutting and slashing staff hours not endearing to lower level employees, so managing is more challenging.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

Was always able to work with my on my schedule and was always a reliable workplace little surprises

Cons

My area had a lot of scary stuff happen and a lot of time I was at the front all alone just left me feeling unsafe at times as a teen.

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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