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.
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
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
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
There’s always money in the CEO budget. I mean banana stand.
Glad I quit that job. Fuck Walgreens. Always understaffed as well.
Have an upvote for the arrested development reference.
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
Beats me, ask ToysRUs.
Stocking shelves, helping customers and tidying up at Toys R Us was literally my first job during high school, and it was probably the best work a 16yo kid could in the early 2000s.
I will never forgive Bain Capital (and Mitt Romney for founding it), for its intentional sabotage of that business. Absolute scumbags.
My first jobs were in the late 70s, and they sucked until I realized that I choose where I work, and the money was bad everywhere (min wage), so why not work somewhere fun? I thought about a movie theater, or a bookstore, but saw a sign in my favorite record store, only a mile from my house, and I ended up in the record biz for the next 35 years.
THAT was the best job ever.
until I realized that I choose where I work,
Only if they’re hiring. And that is increasingly a rarity for places that you would actually want to work.
It was a lot easier in the '70s, I would imagine.
I worked in the local Mall. At least 10 stores were always hiring at any given time.
Touché, that definitely does sound like it would have been a a fun job!
I still feel like I lucked out compared to my classmates who were either flipping burgers at Macca’s, stacking shelves at the local supermarket, or waiting at a chain restaurant. Being a “Toy Tester” every December was just 👌🏼
Or Red Lobster.
No. Ask RadioShack as well.
Do I have to give them my phone number first?
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?
The stockholders come first.
Repeatedly, from my experience, and they are never truly satisfied.
Never. Ever.
Well, it’ll be out of business in 3 to 5 years.
No, but it’s not meant to.
Sure, if the customers own the PE firm
In Pretty Woman? Even then it’s been so long I don’t remember if the employees were saved, or just the business overall.
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.
We have the Walgreens/CVS corner competition near us, and this past summer, a guy walked into the CVS, poured gasoline everywhere, and set it on fire purposefully, and himself accidentally. Then he WALKED ACROSS THE STREET to the Walgreens, as the CVS was actively burning, and asked for BURN CREAM!
So, as you can see, having the stores across the street from each other worked out well for that psychopathic arsonist. Now don’t you feel silly criticizing their corporate location strategy?
(BTW, nobody was killed, but 3 people were injured, besides the idiot, and the CVS is still closed, so that Walgreens location is probably safe from closure for now.)
(BTW, nobody was killed, but 3 people were injured, besides the idiot
So, everyone in the building at the time.
No, actually there were quite a few people, it happened at about 3 PM. People started running out as soon as he started pouring gasoline, but some got trapped behind the flames.
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.
Your local independent or local chain.
CVS is the most convenient to me, and they don’t seem overworked when I’ve been there.
Edit: maybe also online ones like cost plus? I don’t know how they are as a company.
In my area, there’s one independent pharmacy in a metro of 3m+ people. Walgreens bought all of them and closed most of them. Our options are Walgreens and CVS.
I guess Costco if there aren’t any local options
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.
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.
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.
Find a local one if you can.
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?
The employees are even less motivated to prevent shoplifting, if it’s any consolation
Your money isn’t going into any wageslave pockets.
