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      Walgreens

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      Walgreens reviews

      3.0

      34% would recommend to a friend

      (37,053 total reviews)
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      Mike Motz

      26% approve of CEO

      25% 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 37,053 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
      3.0
      Dec 13, 2013

      Former asst manager

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Better pay than most retail, employee discount, paid holidays, 401k match, met some amazing people with phenomenal work ethic, learned about pharmacy and OTC items, promotions are feasible if you are smart and work hard. It's never boring.

      Cons

      LONG DAYS. An "on shift lunch" in a high volume store equals no lunch. The store manager and district manager can make or break your experience working here. There are some great managers, but there are more underhanded and deceitful ones. No work life balance for management without putting yourself in hot water. .. Constantly cutting hours beyond what seems prudent or logical

      2.0
      Nov 3, 2018

      Only care about shareholders and stock price, all at the expense of the happiness of their store level employees.

      Store manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good coworkers. A strong push on development of employees (albeit with no payroll to do so combined with poor training resources).

      Cons

      Upper management (anyone above DM) only cares about looking good and trying to get promoted, and as a result have completely unrealistic expectations of the DMs and store level positions given the resources we have. Constantly cutting payroll and still asking of the same expectations. They want their cashiers (!) knowing about and talking to customers about things like: Medicare D, Flu Shots, and any other company initiative that comes down. Store Mangers are held accountable if any of the ridiculous amounts of things we are expected to make the cashiers/technicians do are not done - i.e., sell flu shots, talk to seniors about Med D, ask every patient to sign up for digital services, etc.

      3.0
      Oct 23, 2014

      Used to be good place to work

      Assistant manager (mgt)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent pay, paid vacation, sick days, 401k, employee discounts, flexible hours/days, somewhat able to transfer from store to store.

      Cons

      This used to be a great company to work for. However, in light of recent company restructuring, hours are cut constantly, and positions are continuously being revamped. Employees are expected to be robots with forced greetings. You are always being pushed to sell something and expected to meet certain sales quotas.

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