If you like being abused for little pay and no help, work here! - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

1.0
Sep 10, 2021
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Pros

They pay you to work as is legally required. No other pros

Cons

You can tell within a few weeks of working there that management does not care about you as an employee or really anything but the bottom line. Almost every day I had to apologize to long-time customers about new asinine policies that anyone with any business sense or had spent a day in a store would know is terrible. There are no real tools to help you and every piece of equipment is dated and close to breaking down completely. During my time there they finally replaced the pre-windows 95 inventory system (which was an absolute joke) with a new system that was beyond cheap and rarely worked. Terrible hours, terrible pay, terrible benefits, and terrible training. I would recommend this job to my worst enemies but even that seems a little cruel.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

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

Cons

My area had a lot of scary stuff happen and a lot of time I was at the front all alone just left me feeling unsafe at times as a teen.

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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