Walgreens reviews

Lack of opportunities above store manager level; preferences for promotion to DM position generally given to minorities and females. The company is still growing at a fast clip but store support is dwindling as the chain grows (i.e. more stores in each district, payroll being cut to dangerous levels, district staff spread too thin among too many stores, etc.). Hourly wages for store staff (clerks, photo techs, and beauty advisors) are very low compared to other retailers but competitive with other drugstore chains. Very hard to attract good talent when all you can offer someone is $7.50/hour. District Managers do not support giving store clerks anything above a 3% yearly raise, so turnover is high.

Retail is just not for everybody. At a store like Walgreens, where the hours are 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the hours as an assistant manager are not very appealing. Very few jobs these days are 9-5, 40 hour a week jobs but as an assistan store manager I worked a very random, inconsistent schedule that will require overnight shifts and consistent night shifts and consistent weekends. From my experience, being a assistant manager at Walgreens can be very detrimental to a marriage or relationship. Almost every manager at my store was either divorced or going through serious problems with their spouse because of the lack of time spent together. Once you become a store manager, life is great, but the road to glory sucks!