If I could give this CVS a negative rating, I would. Over the past several years, they have made at least one mistake in almost every prescription we've requested from them. If the prescription has even one unusual feature, CVS makes a mistake. Add to that the fact that the employees who answer the phone or work at the pharmacy's cash registers do not care about the customers, and you have a situation as other reviewers have described, one which mandates that you take your business elsewhere.
Most recently, a pharmacy employee had answered the phone and treated me as if I were a burden to her schedule, and a second (who'd told me she was a pharmacist) didn't think it was necessary to give me an update on my medicine. After asking me a question about the prescription, the pharmacist said that she would take care of getting me the correct medicine, indicating that she was going to fill the prescription either that day or the next. Over the next six days, I heard nothing from the pharmacy, so I called again. I heard conflicting information from the automated voice system - first, that my prescription had already been picked up; and second, that CVS was "working on it." When I finally got through to a live human being - the pharmacy manager - he told me that the automated voice information was incorrect. When I mentioned the first pharmacist, he said he did not know of her. He also stated that he could not fill the prescription because it had expired. To emphasize - the pharmacist with whom I'd spoken six days before had questioned me 2 days after my prescription had expired and had indicated that she was going to fill it. I have verified with an attorney that this is illegal - to fill an expired prescription.
In another instance, this CVS gave us expired medicine.
In a third instance, a CVS pharmacy employee kept trying to sell me products I didn't need or want, despite my repeated statements that I did not want these items. This occurred during a phone call when he was supposedly calling to confirm my prescription for a particular brand of medicine. This behavior is against the CVS Health Code of Conduct (yes, I have read it).
In a fourth instance, CVS sold to my husband a prescription medication for me which cost over $100. They neither called me to verify that I wanted this specific medicine nor questioned the outrageous cost of the medicine before selling it to us. When my husband gave me the medicine at home, I asked him to return it and get the money back because our insurance didn't cover it. I also didn't want or need something so much more expensive than average for that kind of medicine. When he tried to return the medicine - unopened - and get a refund, the pharmacy employee at first threatened to not return his money, even though it was CVS's mistake and laziness that had caused the problem.
There are more instances like the above, but they are just more of the same of this CVS's employees' behavior - unprofessional, lazy, sometimes rude, uncooperative, and error-filled. This CVS continues to make mistakes and exhibit rude and unprofessional behavior but offers nothing concrete in trying to compensate for their miserable failures - nothing that will help customers in a visible, notable way. At least two of the mistakes described above are reason to report this CVS pharmacy to state and Federal governing boards for the industry and pharmacists.
Finally, this CVS has drastically reduced the pharmacy's hours. While it is true that the store stays open 24 hours a day, the pharmacy now has, basically, "bankers' hours". In a way, I guess that's good - now they have less time in which to make mistakes on customers' prescriptions and be rude.
For one of the more glaring problems, I'd asked to speak to the pharmacy manager to try to get better service at this CVS. To his credit, he did talk to us and even had the store manager come to talk to us. Unfortunately, this pharmacy manager is surrounded by people and upper management who just don't care about customers: nothing changed after those discussions.
Right after that, my husband moved his prescription to a pharmacy almost 6 times as far from us as this CVS is. I should have immediately followed him, but I'd hoped that these pharmacy employees would actually care and improve. That was a big mistake, one which I have since rectified by (today) moving my prescription to the pharmacy where my husband's is.
I have written a letter to this CVS's manager, letting him know what has been going on in his store over the past several years. I have also written a letter to the President and CEO of CVS Health concerning this CVS. Although we are no longer customers of this CVS, it would be nice if some CVS employee in authority would pay attention to customer letters and reviews and fix these problems, sparing someone else this awful treatment. read more