If you want to get ahead quickly, avoid walgreens - Store Team Lead Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Sep 22, 2010
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Pros

I've been an employee at walgreens for several years, and have worked several areas of the store. the good thing is that they like to cross-train their employees in different departments so you can get a feel of working other positions. the schedule can be very random, or regular depending on how the manager at your store likes to do it--this can be good or bad but there is a regular rotation of weekends off where I work.

Cons

The customers get irate easily and like to try to haggle like this place is a flea market. Don't get stuck as a store team lead, you'll do all the work of an assistant manager while making at least 50% less money. Walgreens is open 365 days a year, and chances are you will be working a few holidays. they almost always promote to management from outside the company. they would rather hire an outsider to be a manager than promote people with experience. it has happened to me and I've seen it lots over the years.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

The management is accommodating and doesn't ask of to much.

Cons

At one point the heat was out during the winter, but i'll say that this was only for about a week.

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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