Shift Lead Role - Shift Leader/Manager Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Sep 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- a paid 15 minute break - Free flu shots

Cons

- shifts are long either 8 or 9 hours sometimes without a 30 minute break due to calls from coworkers to resolve issues - people who are disrespectful are offered an apology and discounts - truck days where merchandise has to be stocked is very annoying due to corporate not giving enough hours to schedule a lot of people to help - too many daily tasks that has to be completed for a shift lead - A lot of multi tasking which gets annoying due to you being everywhere resolving every small issue

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5.0
Feb 4, 2026
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Pros

Flexible, not too many things to do, focus on your job, great customers, fun, free products. Working with customers. The area lead was amazing. It went down hill after she left.

Cons

The got rid of the position in many stores

3.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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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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