Worst experience of my career - Marketing Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Oct 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Fast moving organization with lots of change. Hire smart people and expect big results.

Cons

Walgreens is a completely dysfunctional organization that works its employees to the bone to benefit a handful of executives. They don't equip their teams for success, tools and staff were always coming up short, and you could always count on layoffs right before year-end. It's an annual event and serves to help the execs hit their bonuses. In summer of 2013 they laid off 1,500 people and two weeks later Greg Wasson boldly reports to Wall Street that "we've had our most profitable quarter in company history!" Everyone sees thru the BS Greg.

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work with your schedule if you are in school.

Cons

Low pay. I need to be able to multitask, run the cash register, and operate the Photo Booth lab at a fast pace.

3.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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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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