Full Time Pharmacist, Corporate does not encourage excellence - Pharmacist Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
6 Nov 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The pros of this companies are your associates on a longitudinal level. The lowest paid workers are the backbone and success of this company. They are not compensated for their good work. There are superiors such as select store managers that are good-natured and good-hearted. The lower level employee is what makes this company its best.

Cons

I've been with this company for three years and they keep cutting back on staff/technicians as well as pharmacist coverage. This is an attempt to cut back and become more like CVS. Obviously this company aims to not take care of patients and ultimately have pharmacists transfer out to competitors because they don't have time to deliver a standard of care. Not to mention, Walgreens pays $15,000 less for pharmacists. Compare to competitors, they also operate at 1/2 as much tech and pharmacist coverage. This company does not provide the tools for pharmacists to succeed and your superiors are not even pharmacists. So, you aren't even able to communicate and have your needs. There is not follow through.

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5.0
4 Feb 2026
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Pros

Flexible, not too many things to do, focus on your job, great customers, fun, free products. Working with customers. The area lead was amazing. It went down hill after she left.

Cons

The got rid of the position in many stores

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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