The only benefit this Walgreen's has is their 24 hour pharmacy; other than that, you're better off going to CVS across the street.
The drive thru is a great idea unless you get a SLOOWW customer in front of you or a Walgreen's pharmacy tech attending the customers inside the store and the drive thru window. On the two occasions I've used the drive thru pharmacy to pick up a prescription. I know I would've picked up the medication a lot faster if I had gone inside.
What prompted me to write a review was the terrible customer service I got from THREE employees during the same visit this afternoon. I've worked in retail before, so I know how it feels like to be at work on a nice Sunday afternoon and having to work -- but I never forgot I got paid for what I was supposed to do.
"Employee" (is she really an employee if she isn't doing her job?) 1: I walk down an aisle and spot an employee walking a cart with products to put shelf away. I politely ask, "Excuse me ma'am, where can I find an eye patch"? She doesn't stop, continues to push her cart, and says "I don't know". As a Walgreen's employee you really couldn't direct me to the general direction of where you think I could find it? Are you really that eager to be done with doing 'go backs' that you couldn't even STOP, think for a second, and even say "I'm sorry, but I don't know"?! Whatever.
Employee 2: I walk to the pharmacy and ask the pharmacy tech "Excuse me where can I find an eye patch?" He asked another tech (which I appreciate) and says "It's on this wall" (points to a wall directly to his left). I walk over and find multi-vitamins and laxatives. Are we talking about the same thing?! I go back and tell him that I found laxatives and multi vitamins but not an eye patch (And why does he hold in a chuckle when I said 'laxative'? Immature? Funny that he confused the area?) So he directs me to the first aid area. I walk over and couldn't find it. BUT here comes another pharmacy tech (employee 4) to save my sanity! She shows me that it's in the eye care area and not in the first aid area. Behold the eye patch AND it's on clearance!
"Employee" 4: I get to the register to pay for the golden nugget (i.e. eye patch) and a bottle of juice with a coupon I found in the Walgreen's weekly ads. I tell and show the cashier the coupon I have for the juice, figuring it would help to tell her in the beginning. She scans the eye patch and rudely notifies me that the product is not on clearance and that it is $3.99. I'm surprised and explain that I found it on the shelf at that price. She tells me that if it was on clearance there would be a blue sticker with the original price and a clearance sticker showing the reduced price and it would always be exactly 50% (the patch was marked down to $1.50). I said that the price should be honored since I found it this way. FYI: there was a line forming due to her arguing with me. She decided to page the manager; she receives a call letting her know that the manager is on break. She then tells me that she can't sell me the eye patch. Really?! I found it mispriced! Employee 5 come over and asks why she paged the manager. She explains the situation and he tells her to override the price. (Side note: there were already four or five people behind me.) She then begins to disputes his decision with the bases of the blue tag and clearance and exactly half off pricing...! OMG can I just pay what it freaking says on the tag?! He directs her to ring me up at the marked price and she tells him that if there's an audit she doesn't want to be responsible for marking down a product that should be the full price since the transaction will have her employee number. Lady, get over it and do what the man says! He tells her not to worry about it, since the merchandise is only a few dollars less and not a $50 difference. She clearly wasn't happy but did what was told. (About time!) She does the price adjustment, scans the juice and I show her the coupon; she ignores the coupon and gives me a total. I give her the coupon and she says "Oh you havea coupon?" and she finally scans it. When she gives me the receipt and bags my two items, I courteously ask "Why did it take to so long to do a price adjustment if the eye patch was discounted with a sticker?" She gave me a blank look and couldn't give me an answer as I walked away.
In all, it took FIVE employees for me to leave the store with an eye patch. Five, really? How f-ing ridiculous. ANNND when I got to my car, I gave the eye patch to my bf who just had eye surgery. What did he say? "This isn't going to work." I wanted to scream. read more