Used to be a great job - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Dec 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Great people to work with, flexibility to pick up hours or overtime at other stores. - Depending on who your boss is, you can learn a lot about the business. - Employee discount was better than competitors.

Cons

- Corporate uses smoke and mirrors to make it look like the company outlook is good. - Managers are not given much time to work side-by-side with employees, so development is hard. - Yearly talent review is heavily influenced by store manager opinion, and is not consistent from store to store or manager to manager. - Work/Life balance is basically non-existent.

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5.0
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Pros

Was always able to work with my on my schedule and was always a reliable workplace little surprises

Cons

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3.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Can be a fun environment. All in whom your staff is. Operating photo was fun and building projects for the customers. Learning about pharmacy operations.

Cons

Work life balance and low pay for what is expected. Not having enough payroll to effectively run a store. My store ran FE on a 320 hour a week budget. That was barely enough to get buy and meet the expectations put out by the company. I was never able to keep a full leadership staff. When a leader called out, I had to stay. There were days I was called away from my own dinner table. SM's were forced to be in the pharmacy for more than half of their day regardless as to what is happening in the FE. I worked over 50 hours a week and barely got to spend time with my family. If I wasn't at the store I was getting a phone call and having to go back to the store.

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