Shift Leader - Shift Leader Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
Aug 17, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunities to advance within a store are good, full benefits and stock purchase options. Growing company, looking to reach out and branch other industries. Senior Management seems to have a good company direction with its financial stability.

Cons

Your progression can only depend on your store's manager. Having one person in charge of whether or not you will be successful is unfair at best. The job requires more energy than you can give. I have heard Walgreens management referred to as "the ringer" when speaking to other companies and their employees.

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5.0
Feb 25, 2026
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Pros

Worked well with my school schedule Friendly coworkers Supportive in growth in other departments

Cons

I don’t have any cons, I enjoyed this job.

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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