Has become a lot better to it's employees in a matter of years - Sales Associate/Cashier Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
May 26, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive benefits package, including profit sharing. Has since toned down the degrading working conditions (I'd rather not revisit the details). Job culture is a LOT more laid back now, allowing for a less stressful workflow. Major culture changes, added to the digital upgrades really seem to have turned things around. The "new" touchscreen cash registers have decent security protocols, so it's not 100% on the employee to investigate illegitimate customers. Very comfortable work environment.

Cons

Almost TOO laid back. If coworkers can't be bothered to offer support when you're overwhelmed with customers, well...tough. Teamwork, as a theme, is slowly becoming a lost art at my store. But this can change. Also the pharmacy has effectively inhibited the store operations, resulting in unavailable management staff, front-end support, etc. We're all working hard, and Pharmacy techs are no different. But that department is due for reform.

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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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