Payless LTC Pharmacy/Wal Mart interning experiences?

[sisson329]

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I'm just curious if anyone has any imput on these at all? I have the opportunity to intern at both of these places and I'm trying to figure out which I should be going for. Plus I'd like to hear some general experiences with them anyways.

I'm a first year student, but I'm ambitious, and I'm getting my MBA/Pharm D. dual degree. I would eventually like to own my own LTC pharmacy so I'm leaning towards Payless. Anyways, thanks in advance guys!

 

[hereticmnk]

I can tell you my experience in WalMart but it wont really help you much I am afraid. The experience is highly dictated by your manager and your patient base. I had a ok manager who expected me to work 700 hours a week. I worked in a real nice area so the patients were not that much pain in the butt. Walmart gives you very competitive pay as an intern and a pharmacist. You get amazing insurance real cheap. Vacation and personal hours are decent. MBA is an asset, I am sure you can move up the chains with that. I will caution you that I know people with MBA/PharmD who never worked to move up the corporate ladder. Well just my 2c regarding WalMart.

 

[sisson329]

Thank you Hermetic I appreciate the reply! I am definitely curious on wages, and it sounds like they don't have a structured intern program then like a lot of the places I looked at. That does help 🙂

 

[geekgolightly]

I work for Walmart and I really don't see much opportunity for upward mobility. Above the PIC, there are about a million layers of management and none of them are pharmacists. In my area, I'm not aware of any pharmacists who have risen higher than PIC.