I never thought I'd write a review of CVS... but my experience at this location was so bad, I'm driven to Yelp.
I brought a prescription in to be filled and, for family-emergency reasons, wasn't able to go back and pick it up for a few weeks. When I did return, the kid behind the counter couldn't find my prescription. He looked in the computer and told me I must have gone to the wrong CVS because I wasn't even in their system. I was certain I was at the correct CVS, and he insisted over and over again that I wasn't. I even pulled out my phone and showed him that I had received a call from this CVS on X date telling me my prescription was ready. He had no idea what to make of this.
The back and forth continued until I spotted another of the pharmacists - I recognized her as the one to whom I had given my prescription originally. She, mercifully, had a head on her shoulders and the wherewithall to go pull the paper prescriptions from the time period when I dropped mine off. Sure enough, there it was, with a processing sticker on the back showing the date it was filled, etc. The guy was confounded! (That's not what the computer says!, I could hear him thinking.)
Only then, about 20 minutes me asserting that I wasn't crazy, and that I was in the right place, did the woman pharmacist tell me that it was CVS's policy to restock prescriptions that aren't picked up within two weeks of being filled. This might have been a nice piece of info for Confounded Guy to have shared with me. If he had just said that from the get-go, I would have been like, "Oh, hey, I didn't know that. Thanks." Either way, it was clearly past that point, and so, obviously, my prescription had been put back on the shelf.
However, this in no way explains why CVS had no record of my prescription. Essentially, after causing a big enough stink, the woman pharmacist leaned over the counter and told me that my prescription had been "mishandled." And that someone, obviously, when putting it back on the shelf had deleted the transaction from my records, rather than noting in the system that my medication had been put back on the shelf after I didn't claim it.
Naturally, what I suspect happened was that Confounded Guy (aka Johnny Stickyfingers), or one of his equally sticky pharma-buddies, probably pocketed my prescription when I didn't come back for it right away and tried to erase any evidence that I had even brought it in.
Either way, I didn't end up with my meds because in the time between when I dropped the prescription off and when I came back, it had expired. And, irrespective of the fact that it was a good prescription at the time I dropped it off and at the time it was reshelved, the pharmacy manger wouldn't fill it. So, I've had to go back to my doc to have another one written.
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