I really hate to do this but you'll understand why as you read. So, my doctor put in for refills of…read morethree prescriptions I've been taking for over a year now for this little condition I have. Check. I get alerted when it's ready for pick up. Check. I always take advantage of their free delivery, which is great. I've been having these three prescriptions delivered for a year now without a problem. So, I go to my CVS account online to schedule the delivery. But for the first time, it says I have to talk to a pharmacist about one of them and answer some questions, after which they can deliver. Check. I call. After a few minutes on hold, I get some young woman who sounds like she's fifteen. Check. I said what questions do you have. She says something that makes no sense to me, but I answer all her questions and there were a lot. Check. Mind you, I have never had to answer questions before. Check. She verifies my address and says it will be delivered today. Fine. I ask if there's a window of delivery time, which there always is, as you have to be here to accept the delivery. She gets very irritated and nothing she's saying is making sense to me. Check.
I finally get so frustrated that I say, "I'm speaking English here - I know I have to be here for the delivery and am just looking for a window - I've done this many times." Click. She hangs up on me. Check. I get a text saying they have my order and there's a link so I figure my time window will be there. But it wants a code they say is in an email they've sent. No email was sent. Check. So, I just figure it will show up when it shows up or I'll call in the morning. So, I'm about to go to bed when I decide to check on the original link I was sent. And what do I find? This young person has totally and obviously on purpose changed me to a shipment, meaning they mail it and I don't get it until Saturday. Not acceptable. It's two-thirty in the morning at this point - this store is twenty-four hours. So, I call. No one answers - for fifteen minutes. I call and get someone from the front of store and she informs me they're on their lunch break for thirty-five minutes.
I decide to drive over there and just pick it up and so I can tell someone what happened. I get there. They're on their lunch until three-thirty. I decide to wait. I'm then told that their system is updating and won't be finished until four-thirty. I still wait. They finally open a window - well, "they" being one newbie who just started to work there. I tell him what happened - he's new - he hasn't a clue as to what I'm going on about. I tell him I just either want to pick it up now or have it delivered but the system is down and there's nothing he can do about it. I will remind at this point that we're talking about MEDICATION here. That someone needs. I may call over there in twenty minutes to see if their system has updated and if he can stop the shipment and deliver. At this point, if they can't stop the shipment they're gonna just have to do it all over again and deliver or, I suppose, I'll drive over there.
I wrote a five-star review and noted that all the one-star reviews, of which there are MANY, seemed to be about the pharmacy there. Again, usually I set up the delivery online so I don't deal with them - very simple and works efficiently. But the young jerk who hung up on me? And then changed everything in the system to totally screw up everything on purpose. I don't wish anyone ill, but she should be fired. Sadly, as is obvious, no one from corporate OR this branch of CVS reads the comments. I'll do another update when all this is resolved.
EDIT: I finally got someone on the phone at nine the next morning - she was appalled at what happened, cancelled the to be shipped order, scheduled the free delivery order, which arrived thirty minutes later. Thank heaven for a professional. Turns out she knew exactly who'd been the initial problem as they had two pharmacists out and had to bring in two new people. I don't like to get people in trouble, but if you're clearly out of your league, just get someone who knows how it works. I suspect she'll at least be talked to and since they record all calls I suggested they just listen to the call.