It's okay for the short term - Store Team Lead Walgreens Employee Review

3.0
23 Mar 2011
Recommend
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Pros

In my experience the assistant managers and executive assistant managers are usually pretty cool you will of course get the bad eggs.

Cons

Store managers are usually very lazy or hard and think work is the only thing in your life. Co workers are generally pretty lazy. No support from corporate, at all. The customer is always right. Even if they physically harm you and yes I have seen it. No where near enough store hours especially in the pharmacy. Nothing like being the only manager on duty and having to catch calls in 3 different departments all while corporate is saying "deal with it." Corporate hides there numbers, of course profit is up you have cut over a thousand hours in my district alone.

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5.0
11 May 2026
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Pros

Opportunity for advancement, engaging supportive environment

Cons

Expectation unattainable at times with lack of resources and communication from too many fields

3.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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