This review is specifically for the pharmacy. I wish I could give it zero stars instead of one. This place is a complete nightmare, and there are problems every. Single. Time. I've been there. If you must patronize a CVS (as opposed to another company), check on Yelp for one with a better rating. At present, this location gets one star, while some of the other CVS stores in the area have three. There's a reason for that.
My prescription coverage recently changed so that I must use CVS, so I tried to have some prescriptions transferred from our local Walgreens. The transfer was guaranteed by Tuesday. Two days later, on Thursday, I showed up to pick them up. After waiting in line for 15 minutes, an extremely rude pharmacy tech informed me, "We don't have any for you. You can wait in that line over there." And pointed toward a counter on the other side of the pharmacy. I explained they were supposed to be ready two days earlier and no one had contacted me to tell me there was a problem. "You have to wait over there," is all she said. After waiting another 15 minutes in the other line (and overhearing wait times of two hours for someone else trying to pick up a prescription), I got up to the front and was informed that they received the request to transfer but ignored it because they didn't have my insurance on file. Again, didn't contact me, didn't fill the prescription as they should have (and charge insurance when I came to pick up). They just plain ignored it. I gave him my insurance card and waited with everyone else to get my prescriptions.
Several weeks later, I requested a transfer of two more prescriptions from Walgreens. When I hadn't heard that they were ready in four days, I called the pharmacy. Again, this CVS pharmacy had simply ignored the request. This time, it was because my insurance company, CVS Caremark, didn't cover those drugs and wanted you to use another brand. These are life-sustaining medications (I would live a few days without them, tops) and the pharmacy had simply ignored the issue. (I had a similar situation with Walgreens, and they had immediately contacted my doctor's office for an override, understanding the urgent nature of the medication and basic customer service/human decency.) The pharmacy tech on the phone literally told me, "I'm not familiar with your insurance company. I don't know how it works." Um, you're CVS and they're CVS. You'd think you could learn how to communicate within your own company. I had to make a number of phone calls between CVS Pharmacy, CVS Caremark, and the doctor's office to straighten it out, including being on hold for two hours with CVS Caremark. After several days, I got everything taken care of without a hint of help from the pharmacy, and not without being within hours of running out of medication. Although I had actually requested refills on two medications, I had to temporarily abandon efforts on the one I hadn't run out of, because this pharmacy basically forgot that I had requested the refill and I was going to have to go through the same nightmare triangle to that one through with zero help from the pharmacy.
When I arrived to the pharmacy to pick up the medication, the entire pharmacy team just ignored me as I waited at the counter for about five minutes. Finally, the woman whom I believe is one of the actual pharmacists--in her late 30s, long dark ponytail, glasses, European accent--finally said, "Our system is down. You have to come back." I told her as politely as possible that CVS had delayed my prescription by a week, that it was a life-sustaining medication that I was out of, and asked her to please help--the only alternative was to go to the emergency room. SHE LITERALLY ROLLED HER EYES AND SHRUGGED AT ME. I begged her, and she pretended not to hear me. Finally,one of the techs walked over to me and said she'd try to ring up the medication. And she did, immediately, no problem. So much for the system being down.
Shortly thereafter, I got a text from CVS saying that one of my prior prescriptions was out of refills, and asking if they should contact the doctor's office for authorization to refill it. I responded yes, and got a text back saying they would contact the doctor's office. A week later I hadn't heard anything, so I called, and sure enough, they had completely ignored the request to refill through their text system. (I decided at that point to put the request through another pharmacy instead. For goodness sake.)
Unfortunately, I don't have the option of not using CVS, but I will never ever use this location again. Rude pharmacists, completely unhelpful, thoughtless and negligent. Not to mention that their check out and text systems apparently don't work. Do yourself a favor and don't darken their door. read more