I was at CVS today picking up my medication, the pharmacy clerk was very nice and was trying to ring up some energy drinks for me. Well, there was a little mixup and the energy drinks that were marked as three for five we're not ringing up correctly. When the front end clerk came back to help, I recognized him because I had an issue with him in the past. At that time, I was just checking out at the front through self check out, and the computer was having some issues and without me saying anything he came over and helped; although , he was very rude, and basically did not say a word just kind of motioned for me to get out of the way. He aggressively came in to push buttons, and he rang up my items, and he aggressively threw each one into a bag and just appeared to be in a very bad mood. At this time, you know I figured he's probably just having a bad day so I didn't mention anything, and I paid for my items and went on my way. Well today, this was the same clerk that I had that day. First off, he asked, where did I see that they were three for five? so I stated to him that it was below the drinks in the refrigerator. Well rather than just taking my word for it, he asked me to go show him, and I had already walked back once to check to make sure that I hadn't seen the sign wrong. Again I didn't have any issue. I walked over and showed him where the sign was and then I walked back to the register at the pharmacy. A couple minutes later, I am not sure what he was doing, he came back to the pharmacy and stated that they were ringing up correctly. I asked so they are ringing up three for five? He proceeded to say no, you have to buy three in order to get three for five. Well at this time I was a bit frustrated and I said what are you freaking kidding me. I said it states on the tag that it's three for five and I am buying three drinks, so shouldn't I get the sale price? He said "no, Actually, you weren't buying three you have to buy three of the same flavor in order to get the three for five." These were all the same energy drink, same size but just different flavors. During all of this, the Pharmacy tech was standing behind, looking at me over his shoulder, flabbergasted at the way he was handling the situation. I will admit for a short period I was upset, but I never once raised my voice and I continue to talk like a normal human being. I told the pharmacy clerk don't worry I've had issues with him before; although, last time I didn't say anything, but this time I will go ahead and write a review. honestly as a doctor I do like walmart Pharmacy better because the prices are a bit cheaper and their pharmacy tech always called me and let me know when things are ready. I was forced to switch to the CVS by my insurance but after being here and using their pharmacy for the past 4-5 months, I've had very good customer service within the pharmacy and I have never had any issues and it has been a joy to get my prescriptions from them. Only problem is sometimes the line is longer than I would like, but they are taking care of a lot of people, so I can't complain. Although, I do not like being treated the way I was treated today by the employee. He was rude, unhelpful, and appeared to be in a bad mood once again. On top of that, he did not honor the sale price. Any store I've ever been to you, where they have deals on energy drinks, I have never had any issues when getting a buy so many get a certain deal especially when it's the same brand and same size. All energy drinks were the KOA brand, but for some reason today the emlpoyee did not feel that he should honor the sale price. I guess it's one of those things, that if for some reason that is the store policy that you have to buy all the same flavor to get the deal then I guess I don't have much to complain about, but it does seem like a pretty petty thing to not honor for a continued customer that gets his prescriptions there regularly as well as buys stuff every time he's in the store for his prescriptions. If it wasn't for Tri, long dark haired gentleman, I would not have an issue with the store but as it stands I will continue to use the pharmacy because I'm required to, but I will be using the drive-through from now on. I don't need to go into a store and be worried about being treated like a liar. I mean making me walk him to show him the price tag and then for him to take his time to come back and tell me that he wasn't going to honor the deal is just weird. After all this occurred, the pharmacist did ask if I would like the manager to call me and I stated that would be great. I will be awaiting her call and again I appreciate the help from the pharmacy staff but Tri is going to have to try harder not to take his own personal feelings out on customers.
Update by
Well went in today and got buy 2 for 5 and mix matched the energy drink flavors and there was no issue ringing them up. So clearly Its not store policy. read more