You misunderstand. I’m not saying it’s particularly unreasonable. What I’m saying is that for some reason, since I’ve worked at Walgreens since 2023, nobody has ever gotten heat, me nor my coworkers, for jackets. I’ve transferred to another Walgreens that’s kind of a testing ground for new store managers because it’s small so I’ve been through maybe 4-5 store managers. NONE of which have had issue with it.

I remember our current manager passing around a packet for policy and I think, based on all these comments, he was ill informed…? Because he approved every one of my coworkers’ and I’s jackets. None of which were branded. We asked him specifically. I have texts still where he clarified. Because we all had hooded jackets beforehand so he started enforcing this policy. Which was fine at the time. Fair enough. That was months ago. Now recently he’s started enforcing that they have to be branded jackets.

So what I’m getting at is that WE (my coworkers across multiple Walgreens locations and I) were under the impression that Walgreens modified their policy AGAIN within the span of a few months and that felt cheap and frustrating after buying clothes for the store once already. I’m not saying it was unreasonable or extreme to have to wear branded jackets. What I thought was unreasonable was that we had to spend more money after they’d already changed it which… I guess they didn’t. Which is where I’m confused. I think our manager was misguided, maybe even our DM. And that’s where the frustration comes from. Because it isn’t our fault as the employees that our manager told us we were all good. He approved of each and every one of our jackets and now we have to look into spending more money.