Learning to delegate is key for a pharmacy manager, Lori explains. They can spend time to make sure patients are taking their medications as prescribed. That support means they can meet the new demand for immunizations without falling behind on filling prescriptions, for example.
They provide enough help for us to focus on being pharmacists.” “I feel like the company really cares about you. “I'm really enjoying Walmart,” Forrest says.
“There's more staffing, more help and the company seems to care about you more.”Įight years later, they’re both happy they made the jump to Walmart. “The way she presented it, it definitely sounded like a better company,” Lori recalls. They’d been there for about 16 years when a former coworker, now a market manager at Walmart, reached out and told them they should think about switching companies. Their early careers and joining Walmart….Īfter getting their degrees, Lori and Forrest both went to work for the same national pharmacy chain a few years apart. He considered dentistry and other medical fields before deciding to pursue pharmacy as well. Lori says she “knew that I wanted to be a pharmacist when I was in high school.” But Forrest was still undecided on his career path. But Lori and Forrest actually met as undergraduates at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. You might guess that married pharmacists met on the job.
Walmart World recently talked with the couple to learn more about their jobs at Walmart and how they take care of their patients and each other. Lori is the pharmacy manager at Store 4065 in Wilmington, North Carolina, while Forrest is the pharmacy manager at Store 7243 in Burgaw, North Carolina, about 30 miles outside Wilmington.
#SPIRIT OF THE NORTH WALMART PROFESSIONAL#
Lori and Forrest Mitchell have grown their professional lives-and their personal lives-in parallel.
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