The Greens - Assistant Manager Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Nov 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Walgreens is a good company to work for in the retail sector. They try their hardest to promote an open door policy and depending on the type of management team a particular store has, this method can prove to be effective. The great thing about this company is that most of their management staff have started from the bottom as cashiers or photo technicians and progressed - all you have to do is show that you are a hard worker, and that you have interest in progressing in that specific field and the management staff has no problem grooming you (if time permits).

Cons

There are WAY too many company initiatives and programs that are pushed onto the employees the moment they are hired. The company cares more that at any given time you can successfully regurgitate ECC or Cultural belief definitions than they do about employee training. While they do attempt to teach and reteach, it is very noticeable when upper management puts pressure on mid level management, who then gets frustrated and all but yells at employees.

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5.0
Feb 4, 2026
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Pros

Flexible, not too many things to do, focus on your job, great customers, fun, free products. Working with customers. The area lead was amazing. It went down hill after she left.

Cons

The got rid of the position in many stores

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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