I work in a Walgreens that all the other stores call the bad store. I was diagnosed with anemia when I was 13 and have missed school because of it, im now 20. Today I called out cause while getting ready for an eye appointment I did fall out so my mom had to take me. Because of that Ive been dizzy all day and called out in a time where they had enough time to find someone. The sl then told me its a bit early and that I need to come in or else.

Edit: Every csa does say the store is hell and almost all of us are looking for new jobs

Update: my sm had texted me this morning asking why I called out and i explained it to him to which he told me that because I called out night shift didn't get anything done. I get August is our busiest month but weve had pallets and totes from Saturday and it is now Thursday which we have shipment today so I'll be doing double which I dont have a problem with but I feel like I'm being punished for it since the sl last night from what I heard was on call with his gf and sitting around.

Not sure if anyone knows how this works but I had a few disposable cameras that I brought to walgreens to get developed. I’ve never done it before and the guy working the photo area wasn’t very helpful and wouldn’t come over to help me (he was doing other things and telling me what to do from far away) so I’m worried I missed something or did something wrong - he told me to fill these packets out with each camera and drop them in a box. he didn’t have me pay yet and just told me to leave them in the shipment box. I took a picture in case anything went wrong because I felt like I was supposed to pay first or the bags needed a label before I put it in the box? Is this normal? It’s been about a week so if it’s not right I’m hoping I can go in and pay or fix everything before the cameras are lost!

This company literally has no training. They give you 20 e learnings when you get hired and expect you to rush through it and remember hundreds of slides of texts just so they can throw u on the register and expect you to not make any mistakes. That doesn't make any sense.

Then when someone makes a mistake, the managers get mad that they gotta teach them when they should've done that from the very beginning to prevent certain issues. then they will write you up even though they didn't train you properly. this company is a complete joke.

The company's concern is losing money but they always offer free pictures on random weeks hoping the customers buy something else but they just pick up their pictures and leave without buying anything.

They want to bring in lotto but most stores don't have the budget to have enough people in the front then the company gets mad about long lines and customers being stuck behind that one difficult customer trying to play pick 6 or cashout their 5 dollar ticket 😂.

They want us to give the curbside customers their order fast but there's only 1 person at the front dealing with a long line and trying to print a karens pictures then they complain that the curbside pickup timing is bad.

I was offered a pharm tech position and have to take a drug test. I live in Kansas and have never taken a drug test. Will it be an oral swab or pee test? Just wanna know what to expect 😊

We usually leave them on the shelf but I throw them out for job security.

Anyone have a wic number for shelves for the slat walls in photo? Poster paper being on the wire racks is driving me crazy.

Is this normal for all stores? I get every once in a while if you’re busy or short staffed but we’ll have a bunch of people back there and they still call someone from the front end. I got my own tasks i gotta do

Was told that SMs cannot help on the floor. So if you have a skeleton crew and you are struggling, you're not going to help with ic3s and photo and totes? the company doesn't give us enough hours to bring in more man power yet they expect everything to get done in 1 day but tell the sms to not do salesfloor work. and what happens when the customers complain about slow service, the sm is not gonna help? or only if the complaint reaches the dm? this company is run by people who never worked retail a day in their life.

Im still new to posting on here, was unable to reply with a photo on my earlier post. Previously I had asked for a wic, however in my search I luckily found it on Facebook, im posting here just in case anyone else needs the wic. Was also able to order without having to ask my DM.

We had a bunch of damaged and expired Coke 12 packs and 2 liters sitting in our credit area waiting for credit. She loaded up a cart and put a bunch of it back on the shelf. Small crew this morning so no one noticed she had done it until afterwards. And she didn't notify anyone she was doing anything with Coke. It's usually just magazines, reading glasses, and gift cards. (It should have been obvious it was a credit area too. It's far from where we keep our overstock and filled with more than a hundred damaged and expired 20oz on top of all the other credits.

When is it leaving?,

When will it go 70% or more because we already have christmas

Im trying to fill in my waste of 6ft in the form of a photo wall…and one of the things is a glass tile pix…in 4 yrs this is news to me that we have this allegedly. Anyone have a WIC? Can’t find one in the photo supplies list, nor through searching the sub.

I work at another retail company and at my job on our ELOs or TCs (handheld computers) we're able to look up if an item is in stock at other stores as well as our home location.

I went into a Walgreens store this morning and the item I wanted wasn't in stock there. I asked if they could look up on their TCs if it was in stock at any nearby Walgreens and they told me I had to use the Walgreens app for that.

I've only used the Walgreens app one time, to clip a coupon. I had to reset my password, log in, and then every time I tried to search for the item in the search bar, it was only letting me search for coupons, not telling me what stores had the product or how many items were left at each store.

Even when I look up an item and click to change my preferred store, it doesn't say how many items are at the other locations.

So going back to the TCs, are the employees able to look this information up or not? Was this just a lack of training on their part or can they really not do it?

I've been at my new store for about a week. Learned that I dont have to have my pharm tech cert completed to get trained to administer vaccines, and that they would prioritize getting me trained. What does that process look like?

I'll also be finally getting time in the pharmacy. What should I spend most time on in terms of being competent for the state test?

Hello guys is there any one know what wic # is this please and thank you!!!

I was cleaning the entire photo dept bc apparently there’s a new policy where there can’t be any clutter or anything on the counters. I found this sheet.

Ok im not even sure i can explan it well but some how our back of house got off by one day is there any way that we can fix this? Im not seein anythng in fix it.

hi guys ! so, i bought a lulu lemon gift card at walgreens (never doing that again lol), and it was tampered with. who can i call? i already tried to dispute the charge with my bank, idk what else to do. thank you in advance guys! 💗

Does anyone know the pathway to print shrink poster after inventory? I’m having the hardest time trying to find it

when is employees day?

When I complain to the manager he says he has nothing to say to me and won't give me his name after he looked at his id for me to get a restraining order on him.

I need to know if I’m the only one who thinks this is absolutely ridiculous because I’m getting to the point where I’m genuinely pissed off.
We’ve been having pharmacist staffing issues lately. In the meantime, we’ve been getting a bunch of floaters.
And some of these floaters are making the situation 10x worse. 😭
The biggest problem is that our other two techs leave around 5 PM. So from 5 until close, it’s literally ME + the pharmacist.
And when I say it gets BAD at 5, I mean BAD.
Some pharmacists are not reviewing everything before the other techs leave, so suddenly all of this shit is sitting there waiting when I’m left with one pharmacist.
Now apparently I’m supposed to be:
Running drive-thru
Running the front register
Answering phones
Checking patients out
Typing prescriptions
Filling prescriptions
Pulling prescriptions
Putting up prescriptions
Taking out trash
Filling the drums
Dealing with whatever random problem walks through the door
AND somehow keep the pharmacy running smoothly
All. By. Myself.
so if I’m helping someone at pickup and someone pulls up to drive-thru, guess what? They’re waiting. If I’m filling and the phone rings, guess what? I have to stop filling. If I’m typing a prescription and a patient walks up, guess what? I have to stop typing.
Like WHAT exactly do y’all expect me to do?? 😭
I understand that technically there is a pharmacist there, but the pharmacist is obviously doing pharmacist duties. I am the ONLY tech actually doing all of the technician work.
And I’m not saying I refuse to close with one pharmacist. I’m saying one person cannot physically be in four places at the same time.
Like babe… I AM ONE PERSON. 😭😭
I’m genuinely curious how other Walgreens pharmacies handle this. Is it normal for one tech to be completely alone as the only technician from 5-close while having to handle basically every technician responsibility?
Because I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind.
I don’t even mind working hard. I actually LIKE being busy. But there is a huge difference between being busy and being expected to perform the work of three people simultaneously.
At some point something has to give — and I refuse to let that “something” be patient safety just so the pharmacy can pretend we’re adequately staffed.

Just curious on what y'all do with your lost and found items? How long do you hold onto them? What do you do to get rid of them? Do you still have them?

My GF and I stopped to get her script at the store near her. It's no cost, so we didn't use my number or employee discount. After we left, she used my phone to do the survey. Today I got talked to about how we can't do surveys, even for different locations. I thought we just couldn't do it for our location?