My family and I have been loyal customers here for over a decade. After this experience, that relationship is permanently over.
Let me be clear: while it is absolutely their prerogative to manage prescriptions however they choose, their policies are blatantly inconvenient for patients and feel designed to force unnecessary return visits (and increase their coffers) rather than actually help people.
Here's what happened. My teenage son (like many teenagers) occasionally loses or damages his glasses. We went to Costco to get a replacement, only to find out his prescription had expired just two days prior. Annoying, but what made it worse was discovering that this office had issued a one-year prescription; something that is highly unusual for a healthy teenager. Most providers issue two-year prescriptions in cases like this.
So now we're stuck.
We contacted them, explained the situation, and made a very reasonable request: a short extension so we could order glasses immediately, since my son is leaving town and needs them. A simple request for flexibility.
The response? While the receptionist was polite, it was a flat no by the office manager and doctor.
No consideration. No willingness to help. No attempt at even basic customer care.
Again, yes, they can do that. But the bigger issue is that they seem to set patients up for this exact situation by issuing unusually short prescriptions in the first place. It's hard not to see this as a tactic to drive more appointments rather than serve patients.
To add insult to injury, their prices are already on the higher side. Normally, you might tolerate that for great service, but that clearly isn't what you'll get here.
If you value flexibility, fairness, or even basic understanding as a customer, do yourself a favor and go somewhere else.
We certainly will, and I hope you save yourself the headache and avoid them! read more