99 USD▼ -1.84 (-8.06%) past month WHAT A JOKE. These so called whatever's and overpaid whatever's, you get the company kicked out of the DOW averages, lose company value, how do you even look in the mirror. And you may have now what is the worst... — read more
The AI Train Wreck: Beginning to End
Hsiao convinced the board that Walgreens could become a cutting-edge AI company. It was a misguided effort: WBA is nowhere close to being able to do that for several reasons, and has more fundamental problems to solve anyway. But he managed to... — read more
A third of Walgreens headquarters property in Deerfield to be sold for residential development
One-third of the Walgreens Boots Alliance headquarters in Deerfield is under contract to be sold for about 18 acres of single-family home development. To allow residential development at 300, 302 and 304 Wilmot Road, the village must approve a... — read more
Neal Sample is bringing in his buddy, Erick Rudiak, as the new Chief Information Security Officer to hide things
That's quite the plan. Neal Sample is bringing his close friend, Erick Rudiak, on board as the Chief Information Security Officer for his team. I heard Erick was fired from Express Scripts, right after Neal was. And when Neal joined Northwestern... — read more
And yet...
Tracey Brown continues to remain employed and receive a paycheck...????? The stock is now trading under $22, it was just delisted and replaced with Amazon on the Nasdaq.....and yet she remains. This company is doomed under their current Leadership... — read more
Why are business leaders allowing Pharmacies to fail?
The structural issue is the declining reimbursement rates. PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) are forcing pharmacies to accept lower rates to fill prescriptions. I don't think insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies are helping matters any... — read more
We are in such a bad shape
I can feel it everywhere and every day. Morale is non-existent. We all expect only bad news, piling up on top of an already bad work environment. And what does the leadership come up with? RTO. Any other strategy? Trying to save at least where the... — read more
Amazon to replace Walgreens in Dow Industrial Average next week
It's another embarrassing moment for Walgreen's. Who would invest in this company.... it's lost nearly 70% the last FIVE years, as you can see the employee morale is beyond terrible. And if anyone did or does put money in this company, I would want... — read more
New "What's Up" as of 2/15
Yet another tone deaf What's Up meeting. Neal Sample went out of his way talking at length about Planview at the end just to avoid the low morale question.
Tracy Brown Remains
The fact that Tim Wentworth and the Board feel there is value in having Tracy Brown as part of this organization tells you everything you need to know. This company is doomed. So many qualified and capable people have been run off by Roz, Hsiao, AND... — read more
Time to ki-l off the BAE and BC’s
Only 50% of the BC stores are hitting their goals, less than 20% hit event goals. They are literally not creating enough value to be sustained. Most the BC’s bi--h and moan about 4 hours of tasking a week but have no issue twiddling thumbs and not... — read more
Layoffs are nothing new at Walgreens
Why can't people understand that layoffs are a fact of life at Walgreens and that they should always be anticipated? If you want job security, this is not the place where you will find it. I know most are upset we're having cuts once again, so am I... — read more
Is it true that mostly corporate jobs are being cut?
Anybody else affected? Do we expect layoffs to continue beyond these 145?
I find it puzzling with all the whining nonstop, people stay with a sinking ship company......
Walgreens is a sinking company, it's down 70% value in the last five years, terrible management and the turnover in managment doesn't change the results. Whether it is in the so called home office or the stores it's just a terrible environment... — read more
145 more layoffs imminently
Traci sent an email out this morning, 145 more employees to be laid off.
Just keep paying and paying, this unethical company does
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Walgreens has agreed to pay a $275,000 fine to settle allegations that some of its Vermont stores temporarily closed without notice, had untenable working conditions for pharmacists and made medication and vaccination errors... — read more
Walgreens is not a Dividend Aristocrat any more
Barron's: Fastenal Is the Newest Member of the Dividend Aristocrats. Walgreens Is Out. At the same time, Walgreens WBA 50% Boots Alliance, which recently slashed its dividend by 48% to 25 cents per quarter, was given the boot. “It’s... — read more
HMMMHMMMM Walgreens to explore sale of Shields Health for over $4 billion - Bloomberg News
Let me guess to give employees a nice raise or could it be they are selling everything(that they even just recenty got) because the ship is sinking bigtime and money is needed. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm It is all so obvious. Get out of this sinking... — read more
22.00 USD▼ -3.71 (-14.43%) past month....WALGREENS STOCK
In an effort to boost investor confidence, Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Tim Wentworth recently purchased more than $240,000 ... This guy isn't even a good investor either. This stock is falling again under his so called leadership, and the stock... — read more
Any news on return to office for support center?
After pushing it back three times, which is great, and spending $15 million to get the building back and restock it with monitors, chairs, etc. after ripping it apart (id--ts), are we still returning mid February? I hope it gets pushed back again… I... — read more
Short staffing is the issue
Working for a call center that supports the store pharmacy, it seems that many of our pharmacies are in chaos mostly due to short staffing. Lots of dissatisfied callers asking to speak with over-worked and burned out pharmacy staff. Pharmacy does not... — read more
Winter Weather Store Closings?
How many stores will not open due to the winter storms? I used to always make sure my store opened during winter weather but frankly the fact this company doesn’t care about any of its employees this will be the first time I really don’t give a fu-k... — read more
Oh, goodie!!!
Now WBA has agreed to pay Humana $360 million dollars for overcharging for Rx reimbursements. Lovely.
Par for the course, the titanic continues
Walgreens stock plunges after dr-gstore chain slashes quarterly dividend nearly in half. It also marks the company’s first dividend cut in nearly five decades
CVS is just the same
I was going to apply and then I checked their page on here and what I found is that they have pretty much all the same issues that we have. I don't have any other choice where I live, so that means I'm kind of screwed or I have to add at least 90... — read more
Tim’s No. 1 focus?!
I was hoping it would be making money in order to not layoff more employees. But at least Tim, Ginger, and Tracey can feel all warm and fuzzy inside with a higher ESQ score. They’ve already cut our raises and bonuses despite the COL going up, but we... — read more
2024 will be no better
If you're smart and have options, now's the time to leave. With our current management, things can only get worse, not better. I've been searching for a new job for just a few weeks and I found that there are plenty of opportunities available. I... — read more
All I Want for Christmas Is For Tracey B To Be Fired
I’ve never met such an incompetent and uninspiring executive.
Scrooge
Did they really have to send the return to the office email today of all days??? The 1/2 day before Christmas??? Nobody cares! We don’t want to go back! Everyone will be sitting there with noise canceling headphones. I hope people start leaving in... — read more
No Christmas this year…
I just broke the news to the kids over the weekend Santa won’t be coming to our house this year. What are you cutting this year with no bonus and no raise to make ends meet?
Hiring freeze
Does anyone know when the hiring freeze will get lifted at the support center?
How Pathetic
hen Walgreens abruptly ousted then-CEO Rosalind "Roz" Brewer a little over three months ago, she walked away with a golden parachute that allowed her to keep tens of millions in compensation for just 2½ years of work running the troubled pharmacy... — read more
Walgreens needs to return to its roots.....
Step 1: Let's admit it, the Boots Alliance Healthcare merger (reverse take-over) was a complete failure. Boots has done nothing to help Walgreens, in fact the stock has only suffered since they merged. Dump them, go back to being a national company... — read more
Please explain.....
How Tracey Brown still has a job at Walgreens. There can be no logical reason for keeping her....none. How unfair and inappropriate given all the talent Walgreens has released or chased away. The entire Board should be ashamed of themselves....and... — read more
170 layoffs Jan 8
It's on the WARN site.
Amazon
Walgreens is going to be sold off to Amazon. They will be closing many stores while keeping select stores as filling and shipping hubs to move to the online model while reducing overhead. A brilliant move by Amazon.
Sound the alarms
So the leadership continues to make extremely questionable decisions - the 200 building was in agreement to be sold. They have paid $10 MILLION to buy it back. The joke - the seller won’t give the parking included so we will be paying to lease the... — read more