I had a very unpleasant experience with the pharmacy at this location. Just a background on my situation, I just had surgery last night, from excessive bleeding (blood transfusion and 3 bags of blood) and was in need of this particular medication to control my bleeding.
When I spoke to Lawrence, he was very helpful and assured me that if I transferred my prescription to them, I would get it right away. (My designated pharmacy did not have it on hand). Lawrence directed me on what I needed to do. I went ahead and followed his direction. The unfortunate part was that I ended up being the middle man calling my pharmacy and Walgreen's pharmacy to make sure that they were in contact and sending the documents they needed, to get my prescription filled. When in fact, one of them could have just called my pharmacy and gotten confirmation.
More than 1 hour later of back and fourth, Walgreens was still saying they had not received anything. They did not know the status of the prescription because now the pharmacist was on break and I would have to wait until she got back. Of course I was upset, so I apologize that I did curse while speaking to the gentleman on the phone. It was not directed towards him, but towards the frustration of this whole process, that I felt no one was really taking charge of.
I then drove 10 minutes to the pharmacy and within that time frame, they miraculously just received the fax and call from my designated pharmacy.
There were 3 techs and 1 pharmacist that day. The lady at the register was very polite as I was to her, but it was Samantha that felt she had to prove a point. I had not spoken to Samantha once, within this whole time. I could sense that she was irritated with me and knew of the situation prior to my arrive. She abruptly told me: We just got the prescription from your pharmacy and you will need to take a seat and wait another 15-20 minutes for your perception to be filled.
Please keep in mind, there was no one waiting around at the time. Samantha then proceeded to say, rudely, " you are welcomed to wait or shop in the clearance items to occupy your time." I proceeded to ask them, why it had to take this long and how important they knew this prescription was to me, from the beginning, but ended the bantering and waited.
The prescription was filled in less than 5 minutes.
My take away from this experience is that the pharmacy has a big responsibility and a hand over us, clients, who desperately need what they have. I felt that if someone would have taken the responsibility to handle this, with a simple phone call, this wouldn't have taken the time it did. It just shows laziness and lack of effort. Then for Samantha to make me wait another 15-20 minutes because she was unhappy with me is unprofessional and just mean.
Now reading the reviews, it seems this customer service is a common practice at this Walgreens pharmacy. read more