Walgreens reviews

3.0

33% would recommend to a friend

(37,145 total reviews)
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23% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Walgreens has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 37,145 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 Vendita al dettaglio e all'ingrosso industry (3.5 stars).

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2.0
Feb 13, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A clean, safe environment. The 401k match has been good, but we'll see what happens this year.

Cons

Other benefits are below industry standard. Schedule, schedule, schedule...

4.0
Feb 13, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you enjoying helping customers, this is the best reason. Other than that, making things right. For example, resets and revisions. Clean the department up and make it shine! I enjoy making my store neat and clean, better than Wal-Mart.

Cons

Lack of support from store and district management, lazy store employees, backstabbing co-workers, gossip, and all the bad decisions corporate is making to save a penny. Constant resets and revisions are another draw back. The expect quick turn around time, but that won't happen now! The worst downside of working at Walgreens right now is all the cuts, what else are they going to do???

2.0
Feb 9, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Walgreens is a good starting point for those people just wrapping up their first degree who need a stepping stone to greater oportunities. If you have a college degree in a business related field, you are pretty much given a free pass to an Assistant Manager position. The pay is a little above average from what other retailers offer to someone who is just starting out on a career path. There are many benefits offered that you can choose to participate in including: health insurance, drug discount plans, profit sharing, a discounted stock purchase program, and life insurance plans to name a few.

Cons

If you work for this company at the level of Assistant or above you will have no social life. If you are salary (Executive Assistant) you will pick up the slack from the shortfalls that mandated payroll budget cuts create. Your schedule will be extremely varied and may on many occasions lead to you closing up the store one night and having to open it up the next morning. Also, you as a store employee will be forced to work hard knowing that you will probably get little to no recognition for a job well done. Also, at the moment, there is much uncertainty. Walgreens has never technically laid anyone off, but now people's positions at the corporate level are being cut and they are being conveniently relocated to a lesser paying position or asked to retire early. This is only a start. It will not be long until these job reclassifications trickle down to the rest of us.

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