This complaint is against the pharmacy in the Publix store at 2039 Hendricks Ave Jacksonville Florida 32207 Ste 325. On August 18, 2025 I went to pick up my medicine for COVID that the doctor prescribed, but the pharmacist told me that they do not have my prescription. I am from New York City visiting Jacksonville so when I started feeling sick I went to an urgent care near my home. They gave me a prescription and send me to the nearest pharmacy. When I heard they do not have my prescription I called the urgent care and they say that they already sent it but they will do it again. When I mentioned that to the pharmacist she said that the phones do not work from 2-3 pm because of " some pharmacists may be on lunch". At the time I was at the pharmacy, there were four pharmacists and none seemed to be on lunch. Although if indeed all of the four were supposed to take lunch at the same time I am advising the manager Tara Kendall to create a rotating schedule so that at all time somebody is available. Anyway, I called again the urgent care and tell them that the phones do not work so I asked if there is any other way to send the prescription and to my disbelieve, they told me that they do not use phones they send everything via the computer - nobody is using phones. So the excuse that I cannot get my Covid medicine because of phones not working was not true.
When I emphasized to the pharmacist that I am sick with Covid and have chills I was told to sit down. Sitting down in a cold store does not help against feeling cold. Thirty minutes later another person, later I found out that she was the pharmacy manager for the day, came to give me the medicine, her name was Sulay. She had a very threatening demeanor practically bullying me to take the medicine and leave, otherwise I will not get anything. After 30 minutes of waiting in a cold environment with fever, chills and covid I had to take the medicine and say nothing. After I paid I asked if I can also get two Covid tests. The woman told me to get it myself from a shelf about 15 feet away from the her. I did, and I came back at the countertop to pay, but the same person told me that I need to stay in line. So I was asked by a health care professional to wait again with Covid, chills and fever even if I spent there already 30 minutes waiting or if I do not want to wait to go to the self check out on the grocery store side.
To summarize, at this pharmacy, to read a prescription and take two boxes of medicine from the shelf took 30 minutes. When I ask to buy a Covid tests instead of somebody helping me to get it so I do not move around too much I was asked to take it myself. And when I wanted to pay I was told that I am cutting the line and to go to the self checkout from the grocery. So by healthcare providers, I was asked even them knowing that I am sick with Covid and symptomatic to go to a grocery public self - check out. Instead of containing and minimizing who I have contact with I was asked to wait for 30 minutes in cold and to check out Covid tests using a grocery store check out. It must be a health hazard violation to knowingly send somebody at a self-check out when they are sick.
Lastly, I know the pharmacists delayed giving me the medicine as a power play because the printout from the doctor's office was stamped with 14:09 pm ( current time) and the payment receipt was stamped with 14:36 pm time.
Together with the incident regarding the Covid test I was in that place for 45 minutes.
With this complaint I do not want anything else but to have Publix and the pharmacy train their people in compassion, understanding for people who are not from this city, and simple hygienic protocols such as you do not send a sick person away from the pharmacy counter to a grocery check out to infect other people. The staff needs to realize how traumatic their behavior was for a person who is sick, from another city and not knowing the procedures so being easily manipulated and lied to by them. read more