More with less: My life as a Store Manager with Walgreens. - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Mar 21, 2017
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Pros

I have a DM who is very supportive and nice to work for. My Team Members are great and we have an awesome team. Most of the customers are fine too - just treat people well and they'll do the same in return. Not rocket science here.

Cons

Frontier Program (lots of extra work with no extra hours), FedEx pilot, Beauty programs, cutting payroll hours over AND OVER again, cutting Profit Sharing sharply, cutting other benefits, expecting more to be done with less, letting older stores get run down and not maintaining them...I really wonder what the heck is going on sometimes. I'm ready to leave, but unfortunately I can't make my current salary anywhere else starting out. So I'm sticking around and doing my best to keep my store and employees (AKA Team Members) happy so my life runs more smoothly. And no, I'm not in my 50s - I'm in my upper 30s. Ugh.

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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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