CVS Pharmacy

If you’ve got two small kids at home, this CVS is sure to impress. They have a surprisingly large and vast array of supplies for babies, from diapers, creams and washes to an impressive selection of homeopathic cough and cold remedies for little ones too young to take «real» medicine to relieve cold symptoms. The staff is always super helpful, nice, and proactive about asking customers if they need help. Sometimes the pharmacy line gets a little longer than it ought to be (there has been at least one occasion where the line was so long I wondered if I had accidentally gotten into a queue for a pre-​Black Friday sale or the next Star Wars movie…), but generally the service is timely.

I only go here for the pharmacy because the prices for everything else are so EXPENSIVE. Plus, I’m not a huge fan of the games they play with the extracare bucks.
The Barrington CVS pharmacy is ALWAYS busy. 4 out 5 times I go there I have to wait in line at least 15 minutes. We are regular customers, both my daughter and husband take prescriptions daily. A handful of times they have measured out my daughters liquid prescription wrong and then when we call to complain they blame us! Both my husband and I have advanced degrees in science fields, we know how to measure out 5 mL in a syringe!

Religion, politics, doctors and now drugstores… to each their own, I say.
Personally, I love CVS. I’ve been a CVS girl my whole life. I tried RiteAid, hated it. Walgreens was alright. Target is great but when it comes to CVS, there’s one on every corner and that makes me very happy.
This location has a great makeup section. Fekkai, Essie, Burt’s Bees, Lierac, etc. Every time I go in, I find something on sale.
As for the pharmacy, it can get busy sometimes but the people who work there are always willing to help. I had an issue with a health insurance mix up and the girl was on the phone with them for 20 minutes sorting it out. She could have just told me to call them myself but instead, she was helpful, pleasant and understanding.

Expensive prices for the same products found elsewhere.
Never anyone to help you. You can walk around, up and down each aisle. There’s never anyone to help you unless you go to the counter and ask for someone else who isn’t working a register.
Customer service is awful. They got my photo order wrong twice. The envelopes that came with the photo cards were awful and in the heat one day they melted together. Multiple emails and phone calls to get this «fixed» (ie. replaced with the same awful quality).
Their photos aren’t the best quality. They messed up on my photo cards and the prints I ordered were blown out in color. Walmart is much better and cheaper.
I HATE that their «extra bucks» expire. They always seem to be available after I’ve made a large purchase.
Lastly, I received email confirmation that my package (ordered cards online) were delivered to the store and would be available for pickup after 8am. At about 7pm I went to pick them up and the employee couldn’t find them. I found them for them still in the box, which they then asked me to come back in an hour so they could log them into the computer. Really?
I only go to CVS if I need to or if they’re having a sale I can combine with a coupon at this point. I rather spend the extra money to drive to another drugstore than deal with CVS.

The word on CVS is simple: Expensive. Their prices are probably 10% higher than Rite-​Aid, which is nearby. Before I wrote this review, I decided to compare the prices of one particular item that I use: generic bismuth tablets, box of 30. CVS $ 4.19, Rite-​Aid $ 3.49, Shaw’s $ 3.35. This is typical, although Rite-​Aid does price many items very high. Now I go to Rite-​Aid when I need drug-​store items.