Shift Lead at Walgreens - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

4.0
Apr 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

If you are passionate about customer service and leading a team this is a great position for that. You can learn a lot about managing a team. When management is not there you are pretty much the manager.

Cons

13 is the max you can make in the shift lead position. Have to move up if you want to make more of course. This position is not a management position but you do the work of a manager and get paid less for it.

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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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