Avoid. - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Feb 28, 2024
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Pros

Best pay I have received in my career so far, PTO, inclusion of a virtual insurance option is nice

Cons

Upper management has no idea what they are doing, they signed a contract with a bank for millions of dollars for a credit card that no one wants because the APR is trash. Not to mention it is PREDATORY because the customer base, sorry, "patient" base is mostly elderly. Because the upper management made poor decisions, our jobs are threatened because we don't "ask every customer" to go into debt for their prescriptions, overworked pharmacy workers, overworked front end leadership, micromanagement to the extreme, limited insurance options to chose from from 2023 to 2024 (BCBS that isn't virtual isn't offered to Shift Leads but may be offered to SM or above which is bad), every six month appraisals based on a scale of 1 being the worst and 5 the best but if you ever earn a 4, your district manager will adjust your score so you look worse and you won't get more of a pay raise (why my former SM left).

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Work with your schedule if you are in school.

Cons

Low pay. I need to be able to multitask, run the cash register, and operate the Photo Booth lab at a fast pace.

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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