Fine, if you're desperate for work while between real jobs. - Sales Associate/Cashier Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Dec 25, 2014
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Pros

Good benefits program, employee discounts.

Cons

Computer ordering system is ridiculous, one item will be empty for weeks, while another item will get multiple cases even though it's already overstocked, and yes, the inventory counts were correct. "Training" is pretty much by the seat of your pants. When I asked management for a shelf schematic(Planogram) because we had new items not on the shelf, they asked, 'Why do you want it', brushed me aside, acted like it was a secret. In my area at least, manager told me I had to work a full year before you're elegible for promotion "to show reliability and capability". One has to work a year at $8/hr to show they can do it? Way to drive away qualified employees. Front end checker is expected to greet all incoming customers, answer phones, checkout all customers, let management know when armored car arrives, notify when deliveries need to be received at back door, handle returns and disputes, pretty much all unsupervised or assisted, all for $8/hr. Have to call management repeatedly in order to get a response, with several 'shift leaders' and management on hand, they all assume somebody else will take care of it and ignore service calls.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

The management is accommodating and doesn't ask of to much.

Cons

At one point the heat was out during the winter, but i'll say that this was only for about a week.

3.0
Jun 25, 2026
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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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