Too many budget cuts - Store Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
29 Mar 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Great job coming out of college Good experience for managing other and the store Good pay

Cons

Not enough help - constant budget cuts throughout the store Not good work - life balance Not for long term Very few promotions

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Cons

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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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