Trying to coordinate with your staff is near impossible..... because they won't listen.
More than once I have gone to this CVS to pick up my monthly medication which I've been taking for 30+ years, only to be told it's not in stock or it's back ordered.
With one exception, I have never been given any information whatsoever on availability and when my prescription was late last time by nearly a month (absolutely unacceptable and could put me into a place of serious physical harm) but The response from your staff is for them to shrugged his shoulders saying... "I don't know", "we don't know how to fix it", "you're just gonna have to wait", "Corporate doesn't tell us anything about when a medication is back ordered"
It's like you're living in the 1950s!!!
At one point I asked one of the pharmacist if was it would be better for them if my doctor called the medication in 7 to 10 days early so that if it was back ordered you can get it from someplace else or at least advise me that it's back ordered or that you don't have it in stock prior to the day I need it, So I don't have to needlessly suffer physically and can go elsewhere to pick up my medication.
Apparently our attempts to make things easier for your pharmacist is something that you guys can't even comprehend even though you guys are the ones who came up with the idea..
Today was an exercise in absolute futility, because the pharmacist refused to listen and kept saying things like "too early to be picked up"
I informed him MULTIPLE TIMES that nobody's trying to pick things up early, we're trying to make sure my medication is in stock and ready for pick up the day it's supposed to be ready for me to pick up not a week or a month later!!
Last time this BACK ORDER BS OCCURRED, Your employees daily put me off for over a week and a half and I ended up having to go to Walgreens to get the medication (they had it in stock) which you guys apparently couldn't get from anyone at any point in time and allegedly the meds were not available any other CVS in the county. Which I do not believe in which the pharmacist told me today that I'm not the only one taking the medication that they usually have it in stock.
Usually isn't gonna cut it!!!
God forbid to stop my suffering you could ask one of your CVS pharmacists at a different CVS to send over some of their stock if one store is out and the meds are on back order.
Apparently attempting to Make sure my meds are in stock and available when they're supposed to be it's not something you guys give a shit about.
Instead I have to go back to my doctor, then go to a different CVS pharmacy, am told I can only have a partial amount of my medication to last me for 30 days. PURE INSANITY!!
So this month my doctor called my medicine in 7 to 10 days early with A NOTE advising your staff that I'm not going to be picking it up right away.
I don't know if your pharmacist can't see the note or just doesn't read the notes my provider leaves with the prescription.
I backed up my doctors note by calling your pharmacy and leaving a message specifically to let them know why the medication has been called in 7 to 10 days early because I got a text message FROM THE PHARMACY stating that my meds are too early to be picked up today.
The pharmacist refused to listen at all because he kept repeating the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
He said "oh we only need two days to order unless it's on back order"...
NOT HELPFUL!!!
Three times last year my medicine was on back order which means I didn't get my medicine on time, which means I suffered physically.
But that's not what his focus was on
Your pharmacist was focused on that the meds are not available until the day it's available...
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR PHARMACISTS?!?!?
He flat out refused to even entertain the idea that we are trying to avoid something that is preventable and has happened three times in one year already.
DO BETTER!!
I know you can because I've spoken to a couple of pharmacist who cared and who had their priorities in the right place and actually worked to try to help me out. read more