Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
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Walgreens didn’t respond to requests for comment. Sycamore declined to comment.
Hear that everyone? Walgreens employees are going to give even fewer shits about shoplifting!
Remember to get some extra items for them: They need it.
it was acquired by private equity firm
Has that ever ended well for the employees or customers?
Private equity firms are literally the cancer for businesses and indirectly, humanity.
They continuously grow, take everything they can get, and kill anything in its path
No. Ask RadioShack as well.
Do I have to give them my phone number first?
Well, it’ll be out of business in 3 to 5 years.
It makes stockholders money and that’s all that matters. Line must go up.
it was acquired by private equity firm
Has that ever ended well for the employees or customers?
In Pretty Woman? Even then it’s been so long I don’t remember if the employees were saved, or just the business overall.
There’s always money in the CEO budget. I mean banana stand.
Glad I quit that job. Fuck Walgreens. Always understaffed as well.
You were the CEO of Walgreens?!?
No a team lead so management. But it didn’t pay shit.
Have an upvote for the arrested development reference.
Our Walgreens is basically a shell at this point. I almost never see more than one person working on a given day. No idea how they keep functional
Oh, I do. They have like 10 employees, a shift manager and a manager. The manager and the shift manager get 40 hour weeks. The rest of the employees gets like 15 hours a week and the manager will get slapped if they start accidentally scheduling them for more than 35 even if they ask for it.
Of those 15 hours, like 5 of them will be on shipment/stocking day when they get their shipments in. Usually a less busy day like a Tuesday or something. After the shelves are refilled you really only need a cashier and a supervisor and at really slow times sometimes the cashier can be the supervisor.
The Walgreens pharmacy at our closest one is hit or miss for whether the’re even open.
Well I’m sure that tanking employee retention will help with the problems they have (massive lines at their understaffed pharmacys and one person working 3 counters inside).
They don’t give a fuck they are gonna sell everything for parts after it’s “proven unprofitable”
Tbh I’m not sure how the business model of “being on every single intersection corner across from our identical competitor, selling items at just above dollar store quality” was ever a profitable plan, for either of the two stupid companies.
Wait not giving people their PTO sounds illegal. Im sure it’s not cause thats the states though.
Not giving them earned PTO is illegal, but that’s not what they’re doing. From the second paragraph of the article:
The pharmacy chain eliminated six paid holidays
That’s fine we started avoiding them when they let pharmacists refuse to give birth control and hormone therapies. They have sucked long before the new owners
Is there a better pharmacy to use that treats their employees better…
If you still have a local non-chain pharmacy use them until they go out of business. They will eventually because the chains have a stranglehold on pricing and are actively raising costs for independents, then offering to buy the business as it founders.
Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus drugs is my refuge from pharmacies. It’s cheaper than the chains even if you have insurance, but I can’t be my Adderall through them.
I second the local. If you have one, they would like your business. Grab some candy and an emergency birthday card while you’re there.
Several years back I got totally fed up with cvs and Walgreens. It was impossible to get ahold of anyone on the phone, and they were always backed up in the store because of lack of employees. It was a huge hassle because I take care of my grandparents prescriptions, and there are like 15 medications per month.
Switched over to a local pharmacy. Every time I go in, they have tons of friendly employees working, I’ve never had to wait more than a couple minutes to be helped, and I call and someone answers the phone within seconds most of the time. And the prices are about the same.
Find a local one if you can.
I’m stuck with corporate pharmacies, unless I want to drive 45 minutes one-way.
As we head into a world-wide recession, job opportunities are dropping. Employers will no doubt take advantage of that to further exploit workers. I’m afraid things are going to get much worse before they get better.
So is it more ethical for me to boycott them or should I go out of my way to shop there and pay more for their employees they stifle out of wages?
No amount of spending is going to increase a single employee’s wages. Boycott.
The employees are even less motivated to prevent shoplifting, if it’s any consolation
Buy only loss leaders. Stand in front of high-traffic areas failing to make up your mind. Find ways to waste their time then tip them generously for their “help.”
Make sure they make more money doing work that isn’t profitable for Walgreens than they make doing work that is profitable for Walgreens, and they’ll start prioritizing unprofitable work. Incentivize goldbricking.
