Pharmacist - Go Do a Residency - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Jul 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Excellent pay - Moderately decent benefits

Cons

-All interesting parts of the job (health tests, travel immunizations, etc) have been eliminated -Since the merger with Boots Alliance, Walgreens is trying to earn money from cosmetics, rather than prescriptions, as this is the norm in Europe, where BA is from. This is a total shift from Walgreens' typical set-up, and who wants to work for a company where someone's heart medication is less important than an overpriced tube of lipstick? -Management does NOT have your back. (Example: A known problem-patient, who had gone off her anti-psych meds threatened to wait in the parking lot to beat me up since her medicine 'cost too much'. Pharmacy manager told the patient she was no longer welcome at that location. Patient filed a complaint (full of lies), and so corporate made the manager call and apologize TO THE PATIENT and accept her back at that location.

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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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