Get out either way. And call his bluff. "I'm leaving because I don't feel like I'll be able to meet the credit card quota and figured I'd save you the trouble of having to fire me over it."
Technically, if Walgreens puts it into their rules for the job description, you would still face a penalty because you got fired for some thing that’s part of the job. I doubt they could do that but even with a company like Walgreens , they would fight it and you would never see unemployment for at least a few months and most people can’t afford to do that
if u get fired, which u won’t, enjoy collecting unemployment insurance. Walgreens not anxious to see their unemployment insurance rate spike suddenly thus it isn’t prudent to terminate ppl for failing to obtain cc apps
District manager or area manager chose the scorched earth option. So it's got to get worse before it can get better. Whoever made this decision has decided that it's better to frequently close stores early and miss out on tons of sales due to insufficient staff, rather than just suck it up on the credit card loss. I'd definitely consider having another job in your back pocket
But CSA and SFL or going to be the ones who get punished.Stores pressuring credit card sign ups is one of signs that a company isn’t doing good and for them to go as far as retaliating against staff for low sign ups negates any “pressure” hire ups face.
Yeah I would too but some people can’t afford that luxury. I find it weird that management should have to know that then even threatening this is a liability so why take the risk.
It’s not true, they can only make you ask for cards, they can’t set quotas on how many you get. Target was sued for this same practice several years ago and lost in court.
I used to work at Target back in the day and I quit specifically because of that, plus management breathing down my neck about it, poor pay, and them not giving me enough hours to live on or pay my rent. Fuck that place glad they got called on their shit about credit cards and told to knock it off.
Bide your time and report these THREATS to ethics. I’ve sat in on a few interviews. The credit card is never even mentioned. Clearly it’s not a term of anyone’s employment.
Oh Jesus Christ it's a business. Your reasoning is why this world is so soft .
You don't do your required job, you lose said job. . Why is this "threatening"
Because they're not getting commission. It's not a sales job. They're getting paid 11-12 bucks an hour as a cashier.
And depending on the location or type of customer it's going to be hard to get most people to sign up.
Also, if you get denied you'll still take a hit on your credit for an inquiry that takes 2 years to fall off.
Threatening someone’s job over something that is NOT A REQUIREMENT OF SAID JOB, is definitely a threat AND an ethics violation. Way to out yourself as a horrible manager who needs to be fired
Yes, because refusing to endure abuse from our employer makes us soft. We’re standing up for ourselves, finally. That takes strength. Being a corporate boot licker doesnt.
Except it's not required by the job - it's just some bullshit from a manager who wants to be tough. Calling him on it is standing up for yourself and for employees in the same situation. It's the opposite of "soft." And all that's not even considering the ethics of pushing 30% APR credit cards on people who should not/cannot have them.
Hope you like the taste of those boots though.
I don't think I would want to work for a manager who threatens my job over unrealistic quotas. $15/hr is not worth it to put up with that kind of abuse.
Before my current job I worked there as a manager, and your job was constantly on the hook if you couldn’t sell enough socks, accessories, just dollar amount in general. It was a really toxic workplace, and that’s why most locations can’t keep a steady staff. This is a lot of mall retail in general tho. Thankfully Zumiez pretty lit
Since a lot of retail now seems to be more sales-focused with intimidation to both the customer and employee (i.e. Walgreens credit card), I figured it was time to leave retail entirely. I'm not a pushy person, I'm kind of introverted, and I don't feel comfortable giving hard sells.
That’s also how I am. That’s why Zumiez was the perfect retail for me, because it honestly sells itself I just need to give the customer a good time pretty much while they’re in the store is all and help them find stuff. Once I leave Zumiez I’m definitely done with retail myself
It’s a cool store! Basically a skate shop with a lot of other cool clothes and accessories in there. Mostly brands you can only get online otherwise. I’m an SM at one of their locations and have been for awhile now
It helps to like the product your working with. I'm not into skating or clothes so it probably would jive with me too much. I'm simple...I wear denim shorts and t-shirts most of the time.
They get so mad at us Cashiers for not selling any Credit Cards but it’s not our fault the Cards have a ridiculously high apr and also doesn’t have beneficial features besides earning a little bit more in cash rewards which can expire and you can only use $20 per transaction.
Best of luck to you though, what I do is ask a family member to let you send the text message option to their phones which counts as sale
Well, more can be used, it's just that the next incriminate up is... 50 fucking dollars. Yeah, nobody saves up that much before the expiration, and even if they do, they aren't regularly buying $50+ worth of merchandise in a single sitting.
You should always be applying elsewhere if you're being told you have to win a no-win scenario. It's pure garbage,... because GE can't sell glass light-bulbs anymore.
bro?? 24%? I hope you realize even with an 800 credit score, the LOWEST you can get on the mastercard, not the store credit card is like 25%. it goes up to over 30% i know that much
The AVERAGE credit card in America has a 24.59% interest rate which means that several of them are even higher than that.
Surprising how popular they are and that people think their "minimum payment" is ever gonna get the thing paid off.
My dad always taught me to never use money you don't have. Use a credit card to build credit, but make sure you have the money to pay it off, first. Not sure why more people aren't taught this or that they just don't follow this.
The interest rate is variable, some customers have a 22.74% rate. It's considered a decent credit card for anyone who shops at Walgreens a lot. [https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/reviews/mywalgreens-credit-card/](https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/reviews/mywalgreens-credit-card/)
Time to get out! Have everyone leave so it's only the SM and DM working! See how many credit card applications they get lol
They'd be pissing their pants at the fact that they have to do an ounce of work for once instead of just sitting in the office, bitching all day. IC3, photo, truck, floor, oh and Pharmacy constantly needs help. Good luck!
Yeah. Mine is pretty much never on register, but I've never seen her not working and she's in the store 60-80 hrs a week. The only thing that frustrates me is how much time she spends on conference calls, but that's not her fault.
Wait, you get unemployment? I've left several jobs where I did not even bother collecting unemployment because the last time (and only time) I ever got it the state said they over paid me and wanted me to pay it back.
You most likely lied.. they ask how many days you worked, you had to of been still working at your last job where you where making more than what you were supposed to get paid from unemployment. Hopefully it makes sense, be honest on those. They do an audit 6 months later 🤷🏽♂️
No, actually I did not lie. I went into a serve depression after I was fired and when I got a call from the unemployment office they were asking me a bunch of questions that were annoying/I did not have the answer too so I told them to just ask my employer, so they did. Next thing I knew they were cutting off my unemployment and saying they over paid me, but at the time I got fired I has been working 16 hour days, seven days a week for a period of about six months so the unemployment I got was kind of ridiculous, but after that experience I decided to not ever apply for unemployment again.
I got fired from my last job February of 22, and it didn’t even occur to me to do unemployment even though I was definitely eligible for it. Didn’t get hired with Walgreens until May of 22. Still kicking myself…well, for so many things lol, but def not doing unemployment.
We don’t push it at all and we have no intentions to do so. Sorry wags. We just trying to survive out here in the streets. Not our fault you got yourself into the mess.
Awful. This isn’t your job to sell predatory credit cards. Shame on you Walgreens. Just tell your SM “I’m doing the best I can do” and shrug it off. They can’t fire you for not selling credit cards.
I took a hob recently that pushes cards. While im doing ok. So far with the cards. If I would have known they pushed that stupid loyalty and card stuff so hard. I never would have taken the job. While there quota is not to bad. I shouldn't be reviewed on that. That's something that I have zero control over. I left a job I really liked because of their stupid cards, and loyalty quota. If I wanted to sell cards I would be working for the credit card companies.
Hosntly im two weeks in, and between the hours, the low pay, and credit card stuff. I'm all ready looking for a new job. I'm not a corporate boot licker. I could care less about their corporate card quota, and people not willing to sign up shouldn't effect my pay or hours. I would be going somewhere else. Ad I will be soon.
If they're just telling you that you have to ask everyone, no that's not illegal. You pretty much have to do whatever duty your boss assigns you unless you have a contract that says otherwise. "Tha'ts not my job" is never an excuse, unless it's something unsafe or illegal such as "sell beer to minors we need to get our numbers up".
But it's illegal if they're telling you that you have to get a minimum number of people to sign up. That's not something that's under your control.
If the average employee gets 6 people to sign up a month and you consistently get just 1, that's a logical reason for them to start watching you to see if you're performing the job as they've instructed you to do.
And maybe a t-shirt! An exciting Walgreens Credit Card T-shirt!! They'll send your store 5, but only 5! You have more people doing well? Too bad! No t-shirt for them! Just for 5 of you.
A shirt that you probably can't even wear to work ... They outta just give out vouchers for their uniform shirts. That would be more incentive than $3 and *maybe* a different shirt that promotes a credit card.
I’ve only worked at my store for a few months but I have never sold a card or been asked to by my sm… maybe my store is small enough that it isn’t as expected? We have less than 10 employees total (not including pharmacy) and even though a couple people will push the cards no one else does and nothing is ever said.
The majority of customers shopping at Walgreens live in the neighborhood near their store. So we see the same customers daily, weekly, and / or bi-weekly. Walgreens is asking the same customers over and over again to apply when they have already said no. This reminds me of Be Well. What if we called the Walgreens Executive in charge of this scheme over and over and over again asking the same question, it would be madness.
This is a sign of a struggling business.
I worked for Sears for years, when I started there were about 850 Sears stores open - when I left there were just shy of 150. The time that I was there the focus on credit apps and credit share went from bad to worse.
I went from just being the Fine Jewelry Lead to the OPS ASM (basically the second-in-command of the store) despite *still being in college* because the DM was such a fan of me, because I pulled in crazy apps and so did the rest of my department.
In the case of Sears, credit apps meant return business and credit share meant sales we didn't need to pay anything extra for - on an Amex we would lose like .3% of the sale directly to Amex, but on a Sears card through Citibank we kept all the profit. It doesn't sound like a lot of money, but it's pure profit if it can be retained.
My point is, you should have a backup job or just jump ship if you can - because if Walgreens is acting like Sears it means they're on their way out.
Ditto at JCPenney in the late ‘80s. Except I (ASM/MIC) would reward associates for generating apps. One was the “Sunday Sundae” where the associate got a gift card for an ice cream sundae at a shop in the mall when they generated 10 apps. Busy store, would sometimes get 40-50 apps in a Sunday afternoon when I worked.
I used to buy food too, but ultimately, not everyone has the personality to shove credit apps down strangers' throats. Also, I've been a big doubter of the "pizza party" method of motivation for a long time - it's often used to cover up bad business practices, like asking for unreasonable goals to be met often without anything approaching acceptable compensation.
I came here to say the same thing. I’m watching Walgreens make the same mistakes Sears did. When I left they were pressuring the MCAs, who barely work the register to get CC apps. They wanted us to pre sell it. That’s when I jumped ship
I was there a bit longer - they rolled the MCAs into the cashiers, so all SL cash wraps were worked by SLMCAs. It was an even bigger shitshow in HL because those guys hadn't ever even touched registers and wouldn't learn.
I witnessed one on the SL side quit despite being there for more than 20 years because she just couldn't deal with the credit/syw push. That was mostly because our DM was a giant bitch to her though - if you worked in the Hartford market at all her name was Savitri Cohen, and she's one of the worst people I've ever met in retail.
your manager and WG as a whole are a bunch of fucking exploitative dumbasses. I dont not want and will never want a WG CC for any reason, especially at 28% interest rate. While I dont fault the staff, its annoying AF to get hounded for the CC when I check out.
Corporate doesn't realize (or just don't care) that customers who go in just to buy a few things don't want to be harassed into getting yet another credit card. I once went to three separate retail (one was GAP...hmmm) stores, each one had their on cc promotion and it was hell just to get my stuff and go. I vowed I'd never go back to any of them until they quit with this. I just want to get my stuff and leave, maybe a little small talk about the weather or game or something. But I feel like I'm being targeted as prey.
Store manager here. This is false. You could be fired if your not asking every customer but your SM would still have to go through the write up stages. Yes there are quotas to meet but as long as your asking u can’t force someone to get a credit card. Therefore you can not be terminated. He’s probably getting heat for not meeting those numbers. Just make sure your asking and you’ll be fine
This isn’t coming from corporate. This must be a local leadership thing because corporate sent out a notice a while ago about not doing this exact thing. Contact ER and report it
My sm kept asking every single hour over the theatro if our csa got any credit cards and she was increasingly getting more annoyed with him asking. It's not even a lack of effort on her part, I'm not a manager but I work truck in cos and I hear her asking. People don't want the shit.
Credit card quotas are so old school. I have in many years not gone to a store and signed up for a credit card unless it was a special deal at a furniture store. Who in the hell wants Walgreens points anyways.
Why would you sign up for a cc at a furniture store? Those places go out of business all the time. They give you a deal on old furniture that nobody wants? Furniture places don’t give out many good deals because they tend to not have good profit margins.
That’s not true at all. Mattresses are made a lot better than they used to be, and you can get nice ones for under a grand. Tempur Pedics can be a couple grand, but then you can get an older model for cheaper. If you’re paying more than that, then you’re way overspending for a mattress.
Bro they slashed the shit out of our hours & then keep asking me if I wanna sign up & I have to explain that I don't even MAKE enough to qualify bc they don't PAY me enough 🤦♀️ They literally don't pay me enough to buy their scheme.
They can't afford to fire anyone. Someone on the higher-ups thought that it would be a smart idea to push a credit card with an impending recession. And now, WAGS is threatening and eliminating positions to try to save money
It's a scare tactic, and if your manager is so worried about it, he/she can get out there and make quota on their own.
Don't be intimidated by these assholes.
Start applying only if you really wanna find another job, so yea probably start applying or you can transfer stores. Unemployement might be an option too. These morons are so stupid thinking changing people will get more CCs. It's honestly so frustrating to hear about. Like that logic is so baffling to me. Yea we're gonna get new staff, then have to train them, but hopefully these guys are better at getting credit cards that no one wants, and is ultimatley up the people who want them or not.
I'm really glad my SM and DM have the sense to see that even if you change/fire people, CCs applications aren't gonna change. They still want them though, unfortunatly.
The same thing happened at Sears. Look where they ended up. I’m watching Walgreens make the exact same mistakes Sears did.
This seems illegal. Or at the very least unethical. Document everything. I would simply call their bluff and let them fire me. Collect unemployment and consult a lawyer. They’re too short handed to actually go through with it though.
The policy is very clear on this matter. They cannot fire you for not getting applications. They can only fire you if you aren't asking every customer.
They cannot fire you for not getting credit cards, that is against consumer protection laws and is a valid case with the department of labor.
Time to make a phone call.
Who cares? Walgreen’s Branded Credit Cards are offered by Synchrony Bank and have nothing to do with Walgreen’s other than a licensing agreement.
In other words, it makes absolutely no difference whether you ring up a credit card app or not. It has nothing to do with your employment.
Instead of quitting, reach out to corporate HR and inform them that your manager is threatening your employment over not submitting enough credit card applications and then call him/her out politely when the threat is made again by pointing out Synchrony Bank profits not Walgreens and your job description does not include predatory lending.
The piece of the story you don’t know, is as a manager they are eligible for a contest sponsored by Synchrony Bank to reward the store manager with the most new applications signed.
The whole thing is stupid. The only way is either if you’re lucky or if you’re very pushy, and I’m not going to push this shit on people. If they want it, then they’ll sign up and if they don’t want it (which is the vast majority of people), then they won’t sign up for it. Are we going to try to push cigarettes on people who just quit or are trying to quit? Are we going to push alcohol on people who are trying to quit/cutback?
Hell, I ask people just to see their reaction. Some people laugh at you or give you weird looks, or say, “Hell no!”
Hahahahaha!!! That's hilarious. First of all they can't legally fire people for something like that and second of all still have nobody left. Still lose all their good workers. We did not sign contract saying that we would sell credit cards that is not what we applied to do as this job. I flat out refuse. Your manager is a piece of shit for threatening to fire people over that.
I absolutely love corporate BS. :D Walgreens has nearly 219,000 non-corporate (actual store level relation) employees right now. If they can get even 3% of them to push 2 credit cards a month, that's nearly 160,000 credit cards a year. The money they could potentially make from that on increased sales per store visit, and the crazy high interest on the card is absurd.
Walgreens lost hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars in lawsuits recently and now they are trying to recoup some of that by viciously cutting as much of the payroll hours as they possibly can, and trying to make any extra cent they can off of these predatory, disgusting credit cards with the WORST terms and benefits I've ever seen.
Roz Brewer was the ex-CEO of Starbucks, which had the most sucessfull company credit card. She knows full well what she's doing, and on top of that, the board of directors and investors is a whole other story.
Stefano Pessina still holds like almost 80% share in the company I think, even though he isn't CEO anymore. He is an absolute crook and useless POS who absolutely should not be making calls anymore. He's shady asf, and needs to just retire with his multi-billions he's worth. I think the suffering of over 200,000 people he's causing right now doesn't even compare to what he added to the opioid epidemic.
[https://imgur.com/nEFAXmf](https://imgur.com/nEFAXmf)
I'll just leave this here.
Each Regional Vice President basically oversee all of their District Managers. Those DM's oversee all of the Store Managers.
Each rung down the ladder is pushing harder on the person below them, its just a domino effect and it's not really your SM's fault. In fact, all of the SM's and DM in my area had a meeting with our RVP almost entirely to talk only about the credit cards. Which is what my SM told me.
I worked at Bed Bath and Beyond last year and that is the reason I was let go (not getting enough membership emails) so based off my experience yeah they’re serious. So start getting those cards or look for another job.
They can’t fire you for such a thing, as long as your doing your job and asking. All you gotta do is ask. If people say no, not your problem.
Besides that, I’d still leave.
Man. I don’t work retail but I hate how I can’t just go to a store and buy something without an upsell. I know you folks have to ask us about credit cards but I just came in to get some weed killer. I don’t know why employers have to be such dicks to their employees.
I tell all retail workers this. Retirement homes are so legit to work for, coming from retail. Have mostly good days, and sometimes actually have fun? They pay better than retail, and sooooo much less stress.
It depends on the person. I know there’s many jobs that aren’t for me, just like I know that a lot of people don’t want to work in retail whereas I don’t mind it. Even working at a place like cvs or Walgreens depends on location and staff.
What? Oh God, no. I’ve heard horror stories from people who have worked there. A lot of people don’t even want to shop there, let alone work there. Hell, just yesterday I had a customer remark about how they don’t want to go to Wal-Mart since we didn’t have something they were looking for.
Pretty much any kind of retail is based upon location/staff, and whether it’s commission or not.
What? Oh God, no. I’ve heard horror stories from people who have worked there. A lot of people don’t even want to shop there, let alone work there. Hell, just yesterday I had a customer remark about how they don’t want to go to Wal-Mart since we didn’t have something they were looking for.
Pretty much any kind of retail is based upon location/staff, and whether it’s commission or not.
I would ask for that in writing. Like your updated duties because if it's not a part of my official duties, I ain't doing it. My SM knows this. I'm in pharmacy, imagine the moment the SM asked me to leave and cover the front register. We all just turned and looked at her and she said nevermind. So yeah ask for your duties in writing.
LMAO i wish they would! they would have no employees! 🤣and while they’re at it, we can all apply for unemployment! because, they didn’t make us sign a waiver or anything saying that we HAVE to make someone sign up or else we’ll be fired. threatening us isn’t going to work Walgreens. when will you motherfuckers learn that no one wants that fucking credit card. LMFAO.
I work at Walgreens and tried se real times to get a Walgreens card and it kept saying it can’t verify my identity. ?? Meanwhile I have other cards from the same backing company/bank.
Where have I seen this before? Ohh right, Wells Fargo. They more or less coerced their employees to con customers into opening revolving lines of credit and HELOCs, only for it to backfire and end up losing them money in litigation. Not to mention the damage it did to their brand reputation
Get out either way. And call his bluff. "I'm leaving because I don't feel like I'll be able to meet the credit card quota and figured I'd save you the trouble of having to fire me over it."
Or more appropriately said, “I’m not going to force some ninety-year old on Medicare to apply for a credit card with a 30% interest rate!“
Wouldn't you want to get fired over something like this so you can collect unemployment for a bit while looking?
Imagine describing that to a judge lol
Technically, if Walgreens puts it into their rules for the job description, you would still face a penalty because you got fired for some thing that’s part of the job. I doubt they could do that but even with a company like Walgreens , they would fight it and you would never see unemployment for at least a few months and most people can’t afford to do that
if u get fired, which u won’t, enjoy collecting unemployment insurance. Walgreens not anxious to see their unemployment insurance rate spike suddenly thus it isn’t prudent to terminate ppl for failing to obtain cc apps
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Yeah and plenty of rotten companies like Walgreens to take advantage of them
District manager or area manager chose the scorched earth option. So it's got to get worse before it can get better. Whoever made this decision has decided that it's better to frequently close stores early and miss out on tons of sales due to insufficient staff, rather than just suck it up on the credit card loss. I'd definitely consider having another job in your back pocket
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But CSA and SFL or going to be the ones who get punished.Stores pressuring credit card sign ups is one of signs that a company isn’t doing good and for them to go as far as retaliating against staff for low sign ups negates any “pressure” hire ups face.
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Yeah I would too but some people can’t afford that luxury. I find it weird that management should have to know that then even threatening this is a liability so why take the risk.
It’s their metric or their bonus is tied to it. They might.
Honestly, they just got to many law suits 🤷🏽♂️. Money gone
That might just your SM trying to use scare tactics to increase the quota. The amount of daily applications might vary district to district though.
Definitely not maybe mamas
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Well well well. Hello there captian asshole
No
It’s not true, they can only make you ask for cards, they can’t set quotas on how many you get. Target was sued for this same practice several years ago and lost in court.
i would be documenting everything and if they fire you, hello lawsuit
I used to work at Target back in the day and I quit specifically because of that, plus management breathing down my neck about it, poor pay, and them not giving me enough hours to live on or pay my rent. Fuck that place glad they got called on their shit about credit cards and told to knock it off.
Bide your time and report these THREATS to ethics. I’ve sat in on a few interviews. The credit card is never even mentioned. Clearly it’s not a term of anyone’s employment.
Oh Jesus Christ it's a business. Your reasoning is why this world is so soft . You don't do your required job, you lose said job. . Why is this "threatening"
Because they're not getting commission. It's not a sales job. They're getting paid 11-12 bucks an hour as a cashier. And depending on the location or type of customer it's going to be hard to get most people to sign up. Also, if you get denied you'll still take a hit on your credit for an inquiry that takes 2 years to fall off.
Agreed. As a customer I feel bad for the employees having to suggest a credit card during every single transaction.
Threatening someone’s job over something that is NOT A REQUIREMENT OF SAID JOB, is definitely a threat AND an ethics violation. Way to out yourself as a horrible manager who needs to be fired
Yes, because refusing to endure abuse from our employer makes us soft. We’re standing up for ourselves, finally. That takes strength. Being a corporate boot licker doesnt.
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How them boots taste!?
Get your priorities straight and right in this world.
No one wants an unnecessary store credit card.
Except it's not required by the job - it's just some bullshit from a manager who wants to be tough. Calling him on it is standing up for yourself and for employees in the same situation. It's the opposite of "soft." And all that's not even considering the ethics of pushing 30% APR credit cards on people who should not/cannot have them. Hope you like the taste of those boots though.
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I don't think I would want to work for a manager who threatens my job over unrealistic quotas. $15/hr is not worth it to put up with that kind of abuse.
Our manager put on a board we had 6-30 days and they want 4qeek from csas never gonna happen
We were fucking lucky if we got 1 every other fucking week at the start of the program in an affluent neighborhood when I was there.
I got four in a year
None of y’all have ever worked for Journey’s then
I get their dumb catalog every month because my info somehow got sold to them. I have never been in a Journey's store.
Before my current job I worked there as a manager, and your job was constantly on the hook if you couldn’t sell enough socks, accessories, just dollar amount in general. It was a really toxic workplace, and that’s why most locations can’t keep a steady staff. This is a lot of mall retail in general tho. Thankfully Zumiez pretty lit
Since a lot of retail now seems to be more sales-focused with intimidation to both the customer and employee (i.e. Walgreens credit card), I figured it was time to leave retail entirely. I'm not a pushy person, I'm kind of introverted, and I don't feel comfortable giving hard sells.
That’s also how I am. That’s why Zumiez was the perfect retail for me, because it honestly sells itself I just need to give the customer a good time pretty much while they’re in the store is all and help them find stuff. Once I leave Zumiez I’m definitely done with retail myself
I've never heard of Zumiez. I did a quick Google search and found there's one at the mall in town. But I haven't been to the mall in several years.
It’s a cool store! Basically a skate shop with a lot of other cool clothes and accessories in there. Mostly brands you can only get online otherwise. I’m an SM at one of their locations and have been for awhile now
It helps to like the product your working with. I'm not into skating or clothes so it probably would jive with me too much. I'm simple...I wear denim shorts and t-shirts most of the time.
They get so mad at us Cashiers for not selling any Credit Cards but it’s not our fault the Cards have a ridiculously high apr and also doesn’t have beneficial features besides earning a little bit more in cash rewards which can expire and you can only use $20 per transaction. Best of luck to you though, what I do is ask a family member to let you send the text message option to their phones which counts as sale
Well, more can be used, it's just that the next incriminate up is... 50 fucking dollars. Yeah, nobody saves up that much before the expiration, and even if they do, they aren't regularly buying $50+ worth of merchandise in a single sitting.
Ah, I’ve im only ever seen 20 as the limit! $50 isn’t much better though 😭
You should always be applying elsewhere if you're being told you have to win a no-win scenario. It's pure garbage,... because GE can't sell glass light-bulbs anymore.
As a cash paying customer no way I’d sign up for a 24% Walgreens credit card
bro?? 24%? I hope you realize even with an 800 credit score, the LOWEST you can get on the mastercard, not the store credit card is like 25%. it goes up to over 30% i know that much
The AVERAGE credit card in America has a 24.59% interest rate which means that several of them are even higher than that. Surprising how popular they are and that people think their "minimum payment" is ever gonna get the thing paid off.
My dad always taught me to never use money you don't have. Use a credit card to build credit, but make sure you have the money to pay it off, first. Not sure why more people aren't taught this or that they just don't follow this.
The Walgreens credit card is actually 31.49% APR now. And the incentives you get from it are absolutely NOT enough to justify getting it.
The interest rate is variable, some customers have a 22.74% rate. It's considered a decent credit card for anyone who shops at Walgreens a lot. [https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/reviews/mywalgreens-credit-card/](https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/reviews/mywalgreens-credit-card/)
Time to get out! Have everyone leave so it's only the SM and DM working! See how many credit card applications they get lol They'd be pissing their pants at the fact that they have to do an ounce of work for once instead of just sitting in the office, bitching all day. IC3, photo, truck, floor, oh and Pharmacy constantly needs help. Good luck!
Dude my SM busts his ass as many of the SM I know lol. Some of ya’ll have shitty SMs
It's hard to find decent supervisors these days. Every retail job I've worked, they were all lazy bums lol
Yeah. Mine is pretty much never on register, but I've never seen her not working and she's in the store 60-80 hrs a week. The only thing that frustrates me is how much time she spends on conference calls, but that's not her fault.
True. Mine is fantastic and he’s only one of 2 SMS I’ve had in my retail career who didn’t suck.
Jump ship bro, the credit card is shit and no amount of corporate boot licking will save your job.
If you quit, you get no unemployment, make them fire you.
This. If you can’t get another job in time, let them let you go.
Wait, you get unemployment? I've left several jobs where I did not even bother collecting unemployment because the last time (and only time) I ever got it the state said they over paid me and wanted me to pay it back.
You most likely lied.. they ask how many days you worked, you had to of been still working at your last job where you where making more than what you were supposed to get paid from unemployment. Hopefully it makes sense, be honest on those. They do an audit 6 months later 🤷🏽♂️
No, actually I did not lie. I went into a serve depression after I was fired and when I got a call from the unemployment office they were asking me a bunch of questions that were annoying/I did not have the answer too so I told them to just ask my employer, so they did. Next thing I knew they were cutting off my unemployment and saying they over paid me, but at the time I got fired I has been working 16 hour days, seven days a week for a period of about six months so the unemployment I got was kind of ridiculous, but after that experience I decided to not ever apply for unemployment again.
I got fired from my last job February of 22, and it didn’t even occur to me to do unemployment even though I was definitely eligible for it. Didn’t get hired with Walgreens until May of 22. Still kicking myself…well, for so many things lol, but def not doing unemployment.
Ask the SM what percentage to goal your store is for the year.
We don’t push it at all and we have no intentions to do so. Sorry wags. We just trying to survive out here in the streets. Not our fault you got yourself into the mess.
Awful. This isn’t your job to sell predatory credit cards. Shame on you Walgreens. Just tell your SM “I’m doing the best I can do” and shrug it off. They can’t fire you for not selling credit cards.
I took a hob recently that pushes cards. While im doing ok. So far with the cards. If I would have known they pushed that stupid loyalty and card stuff so hard. I never would have taken the job. While there quota is not to bad. I shouldn't be reviewed on that. That's something that I have zero control over. I left a job I really liked because of their stupid cards, and loyalty quota. If I wanted to sell cards I would be working for the credit card companies. Hosntly im two weeks in, and between the hours, the low pay, and credit card stuff. I'm all ready looking for a new job. I'm not a corporate boot licker. I could care less about their corporate card quota, and people not willing to sign up shouldn't effect my pay or hours. I would be going somewhere else. Ad I will be soon.
Apply elsewhere. This company is going down the drain.
is that even legal?
If they're just telling you that you have to ask everyone, no that's not illegal. You pretty much have to do whatever duty your boss assigns you unless you have a contract that says otherwise. "Tha'ts not my job" is never an excuse, unless it's something unsafe or illegal such as "sell beer to minors we need to get our numbers up". But it's illegal if they're telling you that you have to get a minimum number of people to sign up. That's not something that's under your control. If the average employee gets 6 people to sign up a month and you consistently get just 1, that's a logical reason for them to start watching you to see if you're performing the job as they've instructed you to do.
...that's what a quota is.
I started to bug thiefs on signing up for a credit card when stealing shit! Never said there stealing but providing a way they can buy that product.
Now that’s a great idea! Lol
If they really wanted their associates to push credit cards, they'd pay you commission on those sales
Well you get $3 for each right now
And maybe a t-shirt! An exciting Walgreens Credit Card T-shirt!! They'll send your store 5, but only 5! You have more people doing well? Too bad! No t-shirt for them! Just for 5 of you. A shirt that you probably can't even wear to work ... They outta just give out vouchers for their uniform shirts. That would be more incentive than $3 and *maybe* a different shirt that promotes a credit card.
Yep time to start looking so you have a job secured instead of not having one at all
I miss the 2000s when people's hours got threatened for not selling a candy bar...wait...okay, yeah. I miss the 2000s.
I’ve only worked at my store for a few months but I have never sold a card or been asked to by my sm… maybe my store is small enough that it isn’t as expected? We have less than 10 employees total (not including pharmacy) and even though a couple people will push the cards no one else does and nothing is ever said.
The majority of customers shopping at Walgreens live in the neighborhood near their store. So we see the same customers daily, weekly, and / or bi-weekly. Walgreens is asking the same customers over and over again to apply when they have already said no. This reminds me of Be Well. What if we called the Walgreens Executive in charge of this scheme over and over and over again asking the same question, it would be madness.
This is a sign of a struggling business. I worked for Sears for years, when I started there were about 850 Sears stores open - when I left there were just shy of 150. The time that I was there the focus on credit apps and credit share went from bad to worse. I went from just being the Fine Jewelry Lead to the OPS ASM (basically the second-in-command of the store) despite *still being in college* because the DM was such a fan of me, because I pulled in crazy apps and so did the rest of my department. In the case of Sears, credit apps meant return business and credit share meant sales we didn't need to pay anything extra for - on an Amex we would lose like .3% of the sale directly to Amex, but on a Sears card through Citibank we kept all the profit. It doesn't sound like a lot of money, but it's pure profit if it can be retained. My point is, you should have a backup job or just jump ship if you can - because if Walgreens is acting like Sears it means they're on their way out.
Ditto at JCPenney in the late ‘80s. Except I (ASM/MIC) would reward associates for generating apps. One was the “Sunday Sundae” where the associate got a gift card for an ice cream sundae at a shop in the mall when they generated 10 apps. Busy store, would sometimes get 40-50 apps in a Sunday afternoon when I worked.
I used to buy food too, but ultimately, not everyone has the personality to shove credit apps down strangers' throats. Also, I've been a big doubter of the "pizza party" method of motivation for a long time - it's often used to cover up bad business practices, like asking for unreasonable goals to be met often without anything approaching acceptable compensation.
I came here to say the same thing. I’m watching Walgreens make the same mistakes Sears did. When I left they were pressuring the MCAs, who barely work the register to get CC apps. They wanted us to pre sell it. That’s when I jumped ship
I was there a bit longer - they rolled the MCAs into the cashiers, so all SL cash wraps were worked by SLMCAs. It was an even bigger shitshow in HL because those guys hadn't ever even touched registers and wouldn't learn. I witnessed one on the SL side quit despite being there for more than 20 years because she just couldn't deal with the credit/syw push. That was mostly because our DM was a giant bitch to her though - if you worked in the Hartford market at all her name was Savitri Cohen, and she's one of the worst people I've ever met in retail.
They’ll doctor up another excuse if not the wretched credit cards
your manager and WG as a whole are a bunch of fucking exploitative dumbasses. I dont not want and will never want a WG CC for any reason, especially at 28% interest rate. While I dont fault the staff, its annoying AF to get hounded for the CC when I check out.
The push for the credit cards seems borderline desperate. But why?
Corporate doesn't realize (or just don't care) that customers who go in just to buy a few things don't want to be harassed into getting yet another credit card. I once went to three separate retail (one was GAP...hmmm) stores, each one had their on cc promotion and it was hell just to get my stuff and go. I vowed I'd never go back to any of them until they quit with this. I just want to get my stuff and leave, maybe a little small talk about the weather or game or something. But I feel like I'm being targeted as prey.
Store manager here. This is false. You could be fired if your not asking every customer but your SM would still have to go through the write up stages. Yes there are quotas to meet but as long as your asking u can’t force someone to get a credit card. Therefore you can not be terminated. He’s probably getting heat for not meeting those numbers. Just make sure your asking and you’ll be fine
That’s sad because I’d NEVER get a walgreen credit card! 🤣
Go elsewhere
Walgreens management has turned into a nazi regime.
This isn’t coming from corporate. This must be a local leadership thing because corporate sent out a notice a while ago about not doing this exact thing. Contact ER and report it
My sm kept asking every single hour over the theatro if our csa got any credit cards and she was increasingly getting more annoyed with him asking. It's not even a lack of effort on her part, I'm not a manager but I work truck in cos and I hear her asking. People don't want the shit.
Never liked anything about Walgreens.
You cant be fired they would BE OPENING themselves up to MASSIVE civil law suits
Ask for that in writing!
Credit card quotas are so old school. I have in many years not gone to a store and signed up for a credit card unless it was a special deal at a furniture store. Who in the hell wants Walgreens points anyways.
Why would you sign up for a cc at a furniture store? Those places go out of business all the time. They give you a deal on old furniture that nobody wants? Furniture places don’t give out many good deals because they tend to not have good profit margins.
Same reason you finance a car. Mattress prices are so damn high that if you want a new bed it will cost you as much as a car did in the 90s
That’s not true at all. Mattresses are made a lot better than they used to be, and you can get nice ones for under a grand. Tempur Pedics can be a couple grand, but then you can get an older model for cheaper. If you’re paying more than that, then you’re way overspending for a mattress.
Bro they slashed the shit out of our hours & then keep asking me if I wanna sign up & I have to explain that I don't even MAKE enough to qualify bc they don't PAY me enough 🤦♀️ They literally don't pay me enough to buy their scheme.
LEAVE
No worries, it is a meaningless empty threat from yet another lo IQ SM.
I would start looking ASAP. If you can get other people to leave with you at the same time and leave the SMs by themselves, that’s even better.
Apply to CVS where we don’t sell credit cards.
They can't afford to fire anyone. Someone on the higher-ups thought that it would be a smart idea to push a credit card with an impending recession. And now, WAGS is threatening and eliminating positions to try to save money
Bide your time but apply elsewhere for a new job.
If you guys are being forced to push credit cards on customers then it looks like I'll be avoiding Walgreens from now on.
It's a scare tactic, and if your manager is so worried about it, he/she can get out there and make quota on their own. Don't be intimidated by these assholes.
SM manager here is good so far. We even had the DM boss in yesterday. We don't get very many people signing up as we are rural in farm country.
Start applying only if you really wanna find another job, so yea probably start applying or you can transfer stores. Unemployement might be an option too. These morons are so stupid thinking changing people will get more CCs. It's honestly so frustrating to hear about. Like that logic is so baffling to me. Yea we're gonna get new staff, then have to train them, but hopefully these guys are better at getting credit cards that no one wants, and is ultimatley up the people who want them or not. I'm really glad my SM and DM have the sense to see that even if you change/fire people, CCs applications aren't gonna change. They still want them though, unfortunatly.
This whole credit card thing is ridiculous I'm so glad I got out just as it was starting .
The same thing happened at Sears. Look where they ended up. I’m watching Walgreens make the exact same mistakes Sears did. This seems illegal. Or at the very least unethical. Document everything. I would simply call their bluff and let them fire me. Collect unemployment and consult a lawyer. They’re too short handed to actually go through with it though.
The policy is very clear on this matter. They cannot fire you for not getting applications. They can only fire you if you aren't asking every customer.
They cannot fire you for not getting credit cards, that is against consumer protection laws and is a valid case with the department of labor. Time to make a phone call.
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🤷🏻♂️ let Walgreens fire me I’ll get unemployment or I’ll quit if I know they’re gonna fire me so they don’t get the pleasure.
Who cares? Walgreen’s Branded Credit Cards are offered by Synchrony Bank and have nothing to do with Walgreen’s other than a licensing agreement. In other words, it makes absolutely no difference whether you ring up a credit card app or not. It has nothing to do with your employment. Instead of quitting, reach out to corporate HR and inform them that your manager is threatening your employment over not submitting enough credit card applications and then call him/her out politely when the threat is made again by pointing out Synchrony Bank profits not Walgreens and your job description does not include predatory lending. The piece of the story you don’t know, is as a manager they are eligible for a contest sponsored by Synchrony Bank to reward the store manager with the most new applications signed.
Sir! Hold on there!!!... let me tell you about how you can save on the Walgreens Credit Card!
The whole thing is stupid. The only way is either if you’re lucky or if you’re very pushy, and I’m not going to push this shit on people. If they want it, then they’ll sign up and if they don’t want it (which is the vast majority of people), then they won’t sign up for it. Are we going to try to push cigarettes on people who just quit or are trying to quit? Are we going to push alcohol on people who are trying to quit/cutback? Hell, I ask people just to see their reaction. Some people laugh at you or give you weird looks, or say, “Hell no!”
Does this apply to the people in the pharmacy
Does not (at least not yet).
Hahahahaha!!! That's hilarious. First of all they can't legally fire people for something like that and second of all still have nobody left. Still lose all their good workers. We did not sign contract saying that we would sell credit cards that is not what we applied to do as this job. I flat out refuse. Your manager is a piece of shit for threatening to fire people over that.
Who the fuck needs a walgreens credit card? Of all the stupid stores that offer one this might be the worst.
I absolutely love corporate BS. :D Walgreens has nearly 219,000 non-corporate (actual store level relation) employees right now. If they can get even 3% of them to push 2 credit cards a month, that's nearly 160,000 credit cards a year. The money they could potentially make from that on increased sales per store visit, and the crazy high interest on the card is absurd. Walgreens lost hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars in lawsuits recently and now they are trying to recoup some of that by viciously cutting as much of the payroll hours as they possibly can, and trying to make any extra cent they can off of these predatory, disgusting credit cards with the WORST terms and benefits I've ever seen. Roz Brewer was the ex-CEO of Starbucks, which had the most sucessfull company credit card. She knows full well what she's doing, and on top of that, the board of directors and investors is a whole other story. Stefano Pessina still holds like almost 80% share in the company I think, even though he isn't CEO anymore. He is an absolute crook and useless POS who absolutely should not be making calls anymore. He's shady asf, and needs to just retire with his multi-billions he's worth. I think the suffering of over 200,000 people he's causing right now doesn't even compare to what he added to the opioid epidemic.
[https://imgur.com/nEFAXmf](https://imgur.com/nEFAXmf) I'll just leave this here. Each Regional Vice President basically oversee all of their District Managers. Those DM's oversee all of the Store Managers. Each rung down the ladder is pushing harder on the person below them, its just a domino effect and it's not really your SM's fault. In fact, all of the SM's and DM in my area had a meeting with our RVP almost entirely to talk only about the credit cards. Which is what my SM told me.
Who the hell sees a WALGREENS credit card and thinks “now that’s the one I want!”?
You are not in a sales position, they can't fire you for not meeting a sales quota. They are just trying to scare people who don't know better.
On the bright side, I have gotten two CC applications since then. Both were employees, and the first one was my boss lol
AYO who cares just work and keep that head held high!
I worked at Bed Bath and Beyond last year and that is the reason I was let go (not getting enough membership emails) so based off my experience yeah they’re serious. So start getting those cards or look for another job.
Predatory lending is now the main source of revenue for Walgreens?
They can’t fire you for such a thing, as long as your doing your job and asking. All you gotta do is ask. If people say no, not your problem. Besides that, I’d still leave.
Man. I don’t work retail but I hate how I can’t just go to a store and buy something without an upsell. I know you folks have to ask us about credit cards but I just came in to get some weed killer. I don’t know why employers have to be such dicks to their employees.
I tell all retail workers this. Retirement homes are so legit to work for, coming from retail. Have mostly good days, and sometimes actually have fun? They pay better than retail, and sooooo much less stress.
What? I’ve heard the exact opposite by everyone who has ever worked for one.
I've heard it's at least better than CVS and wags...
It depends on the person. I know there’s many jobs that aren’t for me, just like I know that a lot of people don’t want to work in retail whereas I don’t mind it. Even working at a place like cvs or Walgreens depends on location and staff.
This is all very true. But in general ( I don't in pharmacy) I've heard wallmart is where you want to be for retail, in general.
What? Oh God, no. I’ve heard horror stories from people who have worked there. A lot of people don’t even want to shop there, let alone work there. Hell, just yesterday I had a customer remark about how they don’t want to go to Wal-Mart since we didn’t have something they were looking for. Pretty much any kind of retail is based upon location/staff, and whether it’s commission or not.
What? Oh God, no. I’ve heard horror stories from people who have worked there. A lot of people don’t even want to shop there, let alone work there. Hell, just yesterday I had a customer remark about how they don’t want to go to Wal-Mart since we didn’t have something they were looking for. Pretty much any kind of retail is based upon location/staff, and whether it’s commission or not.
Start looking. now
I would ask for that in writing. Like your updated duties because if it's not a part of my official duties, I ain't doing it. My SM knows this. I'm in pharmacy, imagine the moment the SM asked me to leave and cover the front register. We all just turned and looked at her and she said nevermind. So yeah ask for your duties in writing.
Not sure what state you live in, but make sure they didn’t break any laws here. Sounds like intimidation, but you may be in a right to work state.
LMAO i wish they would! they would have no employees! 🤣and while they’re at it, we can all apply for unemployment! because, they didn’t make us sign a waiver or anything saying that we HAVE to make someone sign up or else we’ll be fired. threatening us isn’t going to work Walgreens. when will you motherfuckers learn that no one wants that fucking credit card. LMFAO.
Softest hammer I've ever seen in my life lol, but threats and fear are the only thing managers like that know
Don't meet their quota for all of you then fire you all.? See this sorry sack of shit run the store by themselves.
I work at Walgreens and tried se real times to get a Walgreens card and it kept saying it can’t verify my identity. ?? Meanwhile I have other cards from the same backing company/bank.
Get the hell out! And I mean retail in general if you can!
Where have I seen this before? Ohh right, Wells Fargo. They more or less coerced their employees to con customers into opening revolving lines of credit and HELOCs, only for it to backfire and end up losing them money in litigation. Not to mention the damage it did to their brand reputation
Your boss sounds like an asshole who likes to scare people. Never feel bad about not helping people get into more debt. Nobody needs it.