Once a good place to work destroyed by Boots and Stefano Passina - Anonymous employee Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
13 Dec 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The healthcare benefits are still decent for full time employees. The long term employees are great to work with.

Cons

- Ever increasing workload with decreased pay. -Constant reduction in benefits including PTO time with very little carryover. -bonuses which are supposed to account for the 60-70 hour workweeks are being phased out. -Corporate support is terrible, all new systems such as applicant tracking and Workforce Scheduler are poorly designed and make the job harder not easier. -The culture has declined significantly in the past five years. -Store budgets have been cut severely making taking time off near impossible - CEO is out for himself and continues to strip mine the company for every dollar.

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5.0
2 Feb 2026
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Pros

Good company to work for

Cons

- A lot of phones ringing that you have to answer that require a lot of work that it holds you off on your current tasks for awhile. They need to do something about the phones ringing all the time.

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3.0
25 Jun 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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