Topics regarding layoffs at Walgreens

Topics regarding layoffs at Walgreens

What happened?

Remember when Walgreens was a great company that people actually enjoyed working for? What happened?

Not Layoffs just new partnerships.

TW will announce a new strategic partnership with WPRE and Doordash this Friday 1/31. Field leadership will NOT be laid off but instead be given New opportunities to transition into new roles within the new WPRe agreement. WPRE has been instrumental... — read more 

Walgreens to close 500 stores before August

All of the 1,200 stores will not be closed in 2025. Instead, roughly 500 stores will close in fiscal year 2025, which ends in August 2025, Walgreens said. In the company’s first quarter, from September to November, 70 stores were closed. They plan... — read more 

Confirmed +200 Layoffs on 1/31

Good news is affected heads will be on temp paid leave to comply with WARN, bad news is cuts are sweeping across departments under major reorg

IL WARN Notice

Public information. Look it up and you’ll see under the October 2024 report that Walgreens plans to layoff 255 workers beginning December 2024…

Fire the Entire Board

They all must go. They have been an epic failure- Jan Babiak, Valerie Jarret, Stefano, Ginger, etc. fire them all!!!!!

ROUND TWO

Walgreens already made a multibillion-dollar settlement over opi--d prescriptions two years ago. It agreed to pay $5.7 billion over 15 years, and now it could be facing another fine. Now the DOJ is alleging that since 2012, Walgreens has been... — read more 

January 31

10 days away. The company did layoffs this time last year/ what will happen now?

Make your voices heard

Frustrated with repeated news of unethical business practices at Walgreens? Feeling helpless as hardworking employees about what is happening at Walgreens? Make your voice heard..... annual shareholders meeting is next week. All Directors are up... — read more 

We are a joke

Insane, hilarious situation going on at Walgreens right now: Walgreens replaces 10,000 fridge doors with giant computers Signed 10yr contract w/ vendor Screens su-k. Glitch, catch fire Walgreens tries to end contract Vendor bricks computer... — read more 

They keep coming....

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/17/doj-sues-walgreens-prescriptions.html

Massive ReOrg

When is this happening, and does anyone have solid info?

Who'd have thought...

Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: ‘When you lock things up…you don’t sell as many of them’ After reporting a 52% increase in shrink, or lost inventory, in 2020 and 2021, Walgreens invested in increased security that proved to... — read more 

Nickel and diming workers on their way out

Writing this message to confirm Walgreens is clawing back the cash reward "bonus" we received in December for employees that are leaving prior to August 2025. The initially said it was "possible" you would have to pay this back if you left prior to... — read more 

Earnings aftermath

Now that earnings went so well (lol) - are layoffs still happening January 31/sometime in near future?

Putting lipstick on the Walgreens pig today

Look at the facts while Walgreens PR is working overtime. Stock price a year ago was $24.68. Even after the price increase today the stock is still down more than 50%. No other company in S&P 500 performed worse. Company continues to lose money. Net... — read more 

We are on a sinking ship

We don’t need an earnings report to find that out. This year will be worse than the last, and it’s obvious that nobody is even trying to turn the ship around. Don’t wait for the axe to fall. Be proactive and prepare for whatever comes your way. Who... — read more 

Q1 Earnings Press Release

YIKES. https://investor.walgreensbootsalliance.com/news-releases/news-release-details/walgreens-boots-alliance-reports-fiscal-2025-first-quarter

Tomorrow

Just saw rough numbers for tomorrow’s call. Worse than expected is all I will say. 100% more store closures are being announced and corporate layoffs will follow.

It begins.........

Walgreens announced it was closing a dozen stores in San Francisco because of what it called "increased regulatory and reimbursement pressures" in the latest round of retail store closures in the city.

People love to catastrophize

What do you get from scaring everybody with vague posts that most likely won't come true? I'm genuinely interested to know.

Alot is about to happen, be ready

Look for options and jobs. Soon ...... even faster that most of you think. Be proactive for your career, not reactive when they do what they are about to do.

Layoffs

My department has recently partook in “business continuity” planning, they are basically having us put together a training book on how to do our jobs, anyone else think this will just be used to train our replacements overseas?

Layoffs

Do directors know layoffs are coming? If I am a manager, does my manager know what is going on? I just do not understand how everyone is acting normally when we ALL know layoffs are coming. Especially with these 6 Agincourt Deep Dive sessions -... — read more 

2/6 town hall

Key business update… is it possible for the buyout?

I like it here

Once you figure out how to play the system, working here becomes fun! I used to give it my all. Work hard, help everyone, come in whenever I was needed... but all that got me was more work and no recognition. Now, I just kiss up to my boss, make sure... — read more 

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