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      Walgreens

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      Walgreens reviews

      3.0

      33% would recommend to a friend

      (37,125 total reviews)
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      Mike Motz

      23% approve of CEO

      24% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.9

      Career opportunities

      2.8

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Work/Life balance

      2.8

      Compensation and benefits

      2.6

      Senior management

      Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,125 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Walgreens employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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      37K reviews
      2.0
      Jan 12, 2013

      Too much expected, too little given back

      Beauty advisor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      decent amount of vacation days, average to fair health coverage, free flu shots for employees, 15% discount, 20% discount on store brand items

      Cons

      expects too much with too little staff, focuses more on suggestive selling than finding out what customers actually need or want and we get in trouble for not selling enough of "the item of the month", promotions are based less on competence and more on politics, not enough compensation for the amount of work expected, open on holidays and you HAVE to work them, cutting hours everywhere to pay for the sheer number of companies they keep buying

      2.0
      Jan 11, 2013

      Little value for employees; unreasonable expectations

      Assistant manager (mgt)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Opportunity for college students to make decent money. Some good store managers. Probably wouldn't be a bad company to work for if you work in a slow, low volume store.

      Cons

      A lot of politics within both district & inter-store management. Would have to drop everything on retail side to assist understaffed & under-trained pharmacy dept. & later stay extra hours to finish assignments or face disciplinary action; however, I still faced disciplinary action for overtime. I was one of the hardest working MGT's in the district & that's the only reason I wasn't fired. Pharmacy staff is generally poorly trained & raise many customer service problems MGT's have to deal with. Corporate management punishes stores that don't meet quotas or customer service statistics by cutting employee hours (mostly pharmacy tech hours), which obviously only makes service & performance even worse. Favoritism is a huge problem; many very good employees have been denied promotions & poor/lazy ones were promoted. Many bad/lazy/unethical employees have not been disciplined due to politics or favoritism.

      4.0
      Jan 10, 2013

      pharmacy tech

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      good co-workers easy to learn on the job good pay i started as a service clerk and moved to the pharmacy, they were really good at letting me transfer easily to an area I was more interested in

      Cons

      customers insurance companies it can be stressful work sometimes with patients and making sure everything is done correctly since it is people's medicine you're working with.

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