4 years has been valuable in gaining management experience but I could not plan a long term careeer here. - Assistant Manager (MGT) Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
21 Mar 2012
Recommend
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Pros

The job is challenging with multi departments so it's never boring. There is an employee discount of 15% and 20% store brand products. You'll work with interesting employees.

Cons

There are no promotional opportunities with this company. Ive spent 4yrs as MGT (w/BS degree) without promotional growth. In fact theyre reducing pay of all MGTS nationwide. The upper management is lazy and doesn't recognize employee diligence/effort/significance. Customers can often be crazy. You'll work almost every weekend and holiday. The workload itself is very labor intensive.

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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 June 2026
Recommend
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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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