Walmart Employee Reviews for Pharmacist

I like my coworkers, they make work fun and worth going to.Customers can be difficult to handle sometimes.Management is supportive and overall, it's a good experience working there.

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Busy workplace

Pharmacist (Current Employee) - Vancouver, BC - 22 March 2023

+Good benefits, basic wages and annual bonus-Busy workplace for pharmacy, too many distractions. Short-staffed, no work-life balance, and awful hours.

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Not a good place to work as a relief Pharmacist

Relief Pharmacist (Former Employee) - Various - 12 March 2023

This is undoubtedly the worst position you can work in this company. It is very unfortunate that the local store employees (be them from the front store or the pharmacy staff) do not consider relief pharmacists "real" pharmacists and are quite prejudiced about them all the time. The pharmacy managers though are often helpful to the relief pharmacists and try to support them but usually, the people you work with like pharmacy assistants do not properly help relief pharmacists as they are expected to and would not cooperate the same way they'd support their staff pharmacists. This creates a very uneasy and potentially risky workplace for relief pharmacists and they'd end up making errors that could turn the whole assignment from a bad experience to a worse situation, The front store management i.e duty managers and their "yellow vest" wearers aka ASMs can sometimes completely ignore the needs of relief pharmacists, for example, it would take them up to 15 minutes to provide pharmacy keyset for the shift (in one instance it took them 2 hours and two trips to the cash office for this), the ASMs will not bring the till or take the till back to cash office before and after the shift even after requesting them and sometimes you'd literally beg them to do that for you (which BTW they're supposed to do that as per policy) or help with transaction-related issues. The top pharmacy management (such as province directors) tries to assist relief pharmacists as much as they can but unfortunately, they can't really control store-to-store work ethics and relief pharmacists will often suffer. -

Pros

Good salary

Cons

Bad local management, Uncooperative staff, Prejudiced staff

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no longer that place envisioned by Sam Walton

Pharmacist (Former Employee) - Saint John, NB - 13 October 2022

Promotes a culture of toxic working environment that can lead to burn out. Managers does not take accountability on how they are contributing to associates' mental health. They only care about the metrics and targets.

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Management cooperation is lacking

Relief Pharmacist (Current Employee) - Edmonton, AB - 12 July 2022

-need to truly understand others situation and accomodate as managers not just verbally mentioning it. -training is terrible- benefits are often unknown and never shared in a proper manner- culture of segregation, non-equality, imposing attitude by senior management, lack of appreciation and abundance of apprehension to new employees plaguing work environment- policy makers tone in terms or any errors are very shocking

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good, professional

Student Pharmacist (Former Employee) - Burnaby, BC - 5 April 2020

good place and learning environment. friendly staff, cooperative and professional. Definitely want to work again if get chance. I learnt pharmacy work flow

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productive and professional

Pharmacist (Current Employee) - Calgary, AB - 27 January 2020

Working in Walmart is a rewarding experience with proper orientation and fruitful collaboration with all stockholders. Walmart enable employees to keep their career advancement through continuous training and development.

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Great company

relief pharmacist (Current Employee) - London, ON - 4 December 2019

Amazing team work either in the store or in the IT department well trained assistant amazing mangers i got great experience in all fields of practice

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Not the best place to work anymore

Pharmacist (Current Employee) - Winnipeg mb - 1 February 2019

It's the typical corporate ideologies that make your life miserable; 8-10 hour days with no meal breaks, 9 consecutive days on, no pharmacist overlap in a high volume dispensary (15+ prescriptions per hour)...... and they want more! Thank God walmart doesn't own an ER ward.

Pros

Lots of nice people to work with

Cons

Too many hours, not enough boots on the ground staff, irresponsible home office directives

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Productive & busy environment

Relief pharmacist (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 31 October 2018

One of the biggest organizations ever , respectable and appreciate every employee's effort . Gained lots of experience from every college , supportive management.

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Perfect Pharmacy

Assist Pharmacist (Former Employee) - Woodstock, ON - 17 September 2018

Very organized Very clean Professional but fun Staff were amazing Very family oriented Very busy pharmacy Great compensation Benefits and bonuses more than fair Great place

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resources readily available

Part-Time Pharmacist (Former Employee) - Woodbridge, ON - 16 September 2018

reasources available as company is big, however lots of pressure from head office and also micromanaging. lots of locations so easy to find shifts in other stores

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Very good walmart policy about Pharmacy

Relief Pharmacist (Current Employee) - Richmond Hill, ON - 6 August 2018

Good experience working as a relief pharmacist. I enjoyed working in Pharmacy. Stick with college policy and no stress full atmosphere. Good benefit and positive approach

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a good experience

Relief pharmacist (Former Employee) - Cornwall, ON - 24 March 2018

it was a good experience as walmart is a busy store. the hardest part was the early opening and late closing. lots of otc questions and variety . it needs better management

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It was alright

Pharmacist (Former Employee) - Belleville, ON - 25 July 2017

The management for pharmacy should be patient care focused Not money focused. Pharmacist should be able to work in their scope of practice and make decisions without reprocusions

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awesome teamwork

pharmacist relief (Former Employee) - baseline,Carlton blace ,bank ST - 8 June 2017

I like the teamwork in Walmart. they deal well with the patients and health care provider. I learn there how to deal with the others in professional way

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productive and friendly environment

Pharmacist Intern (Former Employee) - Calgary, AB - 2 April 2017

Walmart pharmacy team are so nice and professional. I enjoyed my internship for three months and wish one day we get together as one family. they are all good instructors and I have learned a lot from all of them.

Pros

Time is passing so quickly when I am working

Cons

Nothing

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Ok place to work

Pharmacist Assistant (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 30 May 2016

Very busy place to work in which I love, but not enough hours given, the staff I worked with were awesome and I did love interacting with customers and providing excellent service. The days were filled with a lot of people needing their prescriptions filled and I enjoyed how that made the day go by quick.

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Good place to work

Pharmacist Manager (Current Employee) - Slave Lake, AB - 26 December 2015

Great work culture, nice benefits. Good management but stressful sometimes as a result of high volume of business. Flexibility and overall nice place to work.

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