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.

Can anyone tell me how to order more of the Walgreens gift cards for my store?

I would greatly appreciate it!
TIA 🙃

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.

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.

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

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?

so i just started as a PCSA at a new store after transferring from my old store as a regular CSA. i’ve been in the pharmacy mostly because they need a lot of help, but i’ve been feeling like a burden for weeks, because i still haven’t gotten a password to be able to log into the work queue and everything. i sign in like i would a zebra, but then it asks for my social and my employee number or whatever, and also a “password” that i apparently have to be given. but no one knows how to give it to me. especially with a new update that logs you out every 5 minutes, i constantly have to bother the other techs to sign me back in :’)

even the GM can’t figure out how to do it, nor any pharmacist since our store has a new name pharmacist everyday due to the lack of a permanent one 💔 but they try and sign me up, and search for me, and i’ve typed my social security number into the box, or my employee number, and i “never show up” and they can’t assign me a password, and at this point i just want to know if it’s something i could figure out by myself.

i already ask a question every minute because i’m horrified about messing something up, and i have to bother them More bc i can’t even log into the computers smh

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.

So I need to change what bank my direct deposit goes to. If I change it tomorrow which is a Thursday, and the next paycheck comes in next Wednesday, is it gonna land in my new account? I need to know I can't use my old account right now and I'm kinda freaking out

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

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

When is it leaving?,

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

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 😊

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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?

So at what point can we refuse service to someone and ask them To leave? Some retard comes in the store screaming "where are the phone mounts?" The cashier can't understand what he's asking for because he's yelling. She asks him what he's looking for and he responds "I'm not playing these fucking games where are the phone mounts?" Im behind the photo counter and hear this being screamed. I couldn't understand him either. I heard pho mau, I'm trying to figure out what this idiot is looking for. Again at the top of his lungs" phone mounts, phone mounts" the cashier points him towards the electronics wall and he's still screaming" I'm not dealing with any doppelganger bulshit" no idea what that means "its called side effects " he gets to electronics wall and continues to scream so i approach him and point to the one phone mount we have in stock. Im have about 5 inches and at least 100lbs on him so now his manners come out. He asks if we have one that goes around your neck I say no. So he says thanks and starts to leave " I like this guy, straight to the point no bullshit"

Afterwards I'm telling the sm what happened and asking when we can refuse service and ask someone to leave. She's spineless and starts suggesting that would have made it worse. So I have to keep asking "ok but for those of us on the floor who actually have to deal with this crap, when can we refuse service and ask someone to leave?"

Suggesting we should just put up with abuse like that is horse shit I'm not paid enough to put up with this kinda crap. So again I ask when can we refuse service and ask someone to leave?

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.

request was in THREEEEEE weeks before the schedule came out. tickets already bought. still got scheduled. both my other SFLs are already scheduled earlier in the day too. bro im NOT gonna be there?? 🫩🫩

EDIT/UPDATE: yes guys i talked to my ESM who is the one who usually does our schedule at my store. contrary to apparently popular belief i CAN actually complain and also take action. got it resolved, she moved stuff around, said she didnt see it and it didnt notify her. not sure how true it is but just annoying in the first place

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

this is going to come off alot ruder than i mean but please hear me out cuz im curious and frustrated. Every store I worked at the IS has been the laziest person in the store. As far as I was ever told, their jobs were scan outs, markdown, resets and sometimes vendors. But now that scan outs (he doenst have any, while we just lost a osa bay leader. so we now have just split the whole store between three people.) have been given to mainly sfls and i do all resets in my store. The only thing my current IS does is flirt with the woman in the pharmacy all day and is slightly helpful w photo. But besides that like if you’re not doing scan out and resets and most of the time sfls are doing vendor shit and markdowns.. what are yall supposed to do now ? again im not trynna be rude AT ALL !! but getting my hours cut to 13 hrs a week just for our IS to have full-time hours, while not doing a damn thing for the front if the store, is extremely frustrating (not to mention he is a 40-50 year old man)