I came in for the pharmacy, uh BIG MISTAKE! My doctor called in a prescription for me, the time, bout 9:30-10:00 am, I gave it about 15 mins. then drove to CVS to pick up my prescription. The girl behind the counter, I believe her name was Aicole but don't quote me on it, since I'm not sure I will call her Nicole, she said there was no prescription for me, and nobody had called anything. I asked her to please ask her associates maybe they knew something she didn't, Nicole looked at me as if she wanted to strangle me and explained to me in a very loud tone(line of people behind me), "if anyone had spoken to your doctor, your prescription would be in the system"; fine, since I made the mistake of leaving my cellphone home, I drove back home and called the doctor's office to give them a piece of my mind but, his nurse swears to me she did call and spoke to a Johnathan, and says she always makes sure to write times and names specially when dealing with CVS because it is an ongoing problem with their pharmacies. I dialed CVS instead of driving over there again, and good 'ol Nicole picks up again, as soon as she hears is me she cuts me off and tells me that they do not have any prescription for me, I told her Johnathan had spoken to my doctor and he should've put my prescription in, Nicole orders me to hold, I'm on hold for about fifteen minutes, Nicole comes back to the line and without any explanation says to me, "we will send you a text when your prescription is ready", really? not even a "sorry for the wait"? or something! Anywho, now the time is 4 pm and I am still waiting for my text, so I decide to drive there(by this time I am starting to really need my medicine), I see Nicole, who proceeds to tell me my prescription will not be ready for another 30 minutes, I am not going to lie, by now I am very upset. I asked to speak to someone higher than her, spoke to a Linda, she does not apologize but, reassures me my prescription will be ready in 15 mins instead of 30, whatever just get me out of this nightmare. I hear my name on the intercom, I go up to the counter and wait, and wait, .....and wait, apparently Nicole and Johnathan are not done with me, they are both carrying on over what the previous customer had been prescribed, RUKM!? come on! After she slams my prescription on the counter, after Johnathan comes up to the counter for no reason and just stands there starring at me as I'm paying, and only after Nicole says to me sarcastically,"have a nice day" as I'm walking way, my nightmare is finally over.
I called the customer service hotline, that was a total waste of time, I will not go over that or I'll end up writing a small book, but in a nutshell, CVS's customer service is there to justify their employees' mistakes, to argue with "us" customers about why their employees are right and to point out our mistakes as customers. In summarizing Lake Elsinore CVS's problem with customer service, one can not avoid noticing a huge factor; "cheap labor", all around, from the minute you walk in the store, to the minute you walk out, their pharmacist, their management, total cheap labor(this does not apply to the employees at the front registers, or the guys and girls stocking the shelves, as a matter of a fact, they are way more professional, and courteous then the upper level staff mentioned above). read more