Changes - Shift Lead Walgreens Employee Review

2.0
Nov 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

15% discount on most items, 20% discount on Walgreen brand items. Profit sharing. Flexible schedule. Shift Leads can not be transferred since they are not management. Holiday pay.

Cons

When I first started with the company over 10 years ago, you received an extensive amount of training that prepared you for your first day on your own. Now you only get a week at max and you are on your own. If after a few weeks you are still not performing up to expectations you are disciplined. Pay has been decreased by a lot. I took a 25% pay cut when the company restructured in April 2014. The company continues to put more on our plate without giving us any extra hours to be able to get the job done. When they job does not get done across the company, they add it to a KPI to monitor it more closely show they can send out daily emails asking why stuff is not getting done and what are we doing to improve it. The company operates at normal store hours every day of the year 8 am till 10 pm. The main reason they are making so many cuts is due to the purchase of a European company to set them up for a global market since they have maxed out in the US market. This was not a cheap buy so to please the share holders they have to make cuts where they can to make sure the stocks don't suffer. As with most public companies, the share holders come first, customers second and employees last. You no longer get sick days. You must use your PTO time to be paid. If you call off 9 times in a year you lose your job.

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5.0
Feb 4, 2026
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Pros

Flexible, not too many things to do, focus on your job, great customers, fun, free products. Working with customers. The area lead was amazing. It went down hill after she left.

Cons

The got rid of the position in many stores

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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