If only I can give a '0' star, I would have given Walgreens in Saratoga Springs a zero star. In any case, I'd just like to share my experience with them today. I'm still frustrated and angry about what happened but I can't do anything.
My wife and I bought a OneTouch UltraMini Blood Glucose Monitoring System from them to replace our existing one for my Mother-in-Law. My mother-in-law has one but she's running out of strips already and her unit is different from what we can find available here. So the following day when it's time to use it, my sister-in-law found out that it's not working - not turning on at all. I went back this afternoon explaining to them and found out that the battery needs a replacement. The system came with a battery but for some reason it wasn't working out of the box. They were courteous enough to say to replace the entire system, but I told them that it might just need a new battery and they agreed. So they replaced the battery and the system turned on. So I went home and set it up. I went through the step by step setup and was able to set the time, year and date perfectly fine. The next step is the setup of the strip and to put in the code of the strip. After putting in the strip, as per instructions, nothing happened. The instructions said that it should turn on and that I should be able to key in the code for the strips. After trying it numerous times, it still won't turn on and ask for the code. It made its way up to the "- - - mg/dL" display but never to the code entry point of "C - - " as the instructions depicted.
I searched the internet to see how exactly it would happen when you put in a strip. The video from the internet showed an instantaneous displaying of "C - -" the moment you enter the strips. So from there I know that something's wrong with the unit itself. I guess the first symptom was the fact that the battery that the unit came with is already dead. The unit must have died and wasted the battery. In any case, I hurried my self back to Walgreens to get the replacement they're offering awhile ago. Low and behold, now they can't replace it and the first thing that the pharmacist said is that they don't have time and personnel to go through the step by step setup procedure. I told them that I can do it for them just to make sure that the unit is really busted. That's when it started to go downhill. First she asks me to call up the 800 number of OneTouch to figure out if the unit is really defective. I told her that it's a simple instructions (in fact, the unit only has two buttons to press) and I felt like she doesn't believe me or I must be stupid or something. In any case, I called up the 800 number because I know for a fact that it's broken. Me and the OneTouch operator went through the set up process again and he declared it as dead and I informed him that I'm calling him from the pharmacy trying to replace the unit. The OneTouch operator said that they will overnight a unit and we should have it by Thursday. I ask him if I can get a replacement unit from the Pharmacy instead since it'll be two days by then that my mother-in-law hasn't tested. He ask to speak to the pharmacist and I heard something about Walgreens might not be able to get credit for the replacement unit and that she's not allowed to make that decision at that time.
I know this is already a long review, but I can't help it. Here she is, willing to replace it awhile ago and now she suddenly doesn't like to replace it after knowing that they won't be given credit and just asked me to come back the following day (tomorrow) and talk to the manager. I asked if I can talk to the manager and she said that he's already gone. I asked if she can call her so that I can speak to him and she said she doesn't know his phone number. I mean give me a break. I know it's late (Tuesday 8/11 8:30 pm) in her shift and everyone's tired and probably they're under staff (there were like four pharmacists there, it's not like she's the only one present), but the way she asked me to just leave and come back tomorrow and turn her back on me and walk away and go to a monitor was so rude. She's concerned that she might loose her job by giving a replacement to a broken system (which by the way, she was willing to replace awhile ago) that they might not be given a credit but she's not worried that about my situation that my mother-in-law hasn't tested at all for a day (she needs 2x readings) now. I mean, she could have at least empathized and explained it in a very nice way. I'm already frustrated and she could have at least comforted me and not act so rude. Talk about customer service! I mean, where's the "at the corner of Happy and Healthy" value proposition of Walgreens there? Customer service is missing. I should just have taken her offer of replacement the first time. After my second return (with a bad unit even with a new battery) and maybe even because it's late at her shift that she suddenly just wanted to get rid of me. read more