Walgreens

I’ve been coming here since 1989 when I was 11. I’m 38 now. My homey Roy is the best!!! Very
sweet young black guy who works the counter, super cool. However, Cathy the store manager
fat, loud with stringy greasy hair, is awful and racist!!! Well, I was shopping for a new lipstick
one morning, and she loudly said to someone we have to be more careful because a Mexican
girl stole some make-​up here last week. As she slowly eyes me up and down, lol!!! Step off
honey, I’m a long-​time Belmont resident and would never steal from my own community or
anywhere!!! Totally racist, the first time as a Latina, I have ever been followed in a store!!!
And my local one at that, insult to injury… Now I know how black people feel. BTW, Cathy–
I’m Spanish, Dominican, and Native American, not everyone with brown skin/​black hair is
Mexican, lol!!! Please take a cultural sensitivity training class, and joining a gym won’t hurt you.

This Walgreens is AOK.
They have essentials and it’s convenient. There is really nothing special about this location; I had an OK experience in here.
Despite the high prices & tricky, complicated, pointless Walgreen Rewards Card Program, this place can often be a one stop shop of convenience & sometimes its just not worth it to travel to Target or Bed Bath & Beyond to save a few bucks.

Tonight I called to verify they had what I needed. I rush over since I was told they had my item ready and when I get here the stoner kid behind the counter was like oops we don’t have any… Sorry I could not call to let you know since we can’t make outgoing calls. Thanks for the waist of my time!

been hearing some commercials describing Walgreens at the intersection of «happy & healthy».
impression was medicines here are cheap. the ones on the shelves are not.
commercials must be targeting precriptions part D «buyers» under the affordable care act.
compared prices with walmart, lucky’s, cvs.& walgreens.
walgreens was the cheapest in a basket of prescriptions.
just browsed for bargains. slim pickings.
buys:lindt «caramel brownie» reduced from 3.29 to 1.19
–very sweet. sugar no. 1 ingredient.
take outs:
–walgreens medicines was cheaper last year. maybe the impeding sale has pushed up prices;

Review for pharmacy: Been here twice and haven’t had to wait an unnecessarily long time in line as the pharmacist on staff has been efficient. Last time, I forgot my insurance card at the counter. The pharmacist called me to let me know she had the card (super nice of her). I went back 2 days later to get it, but sadly it was nowhere to be found and I failed to get the name of the pharmacist who had called me. Two days after that, I get an envelope in the mail from this Walgreens with my insurance card. Mind blown by such amazing, caring customer service!!!

Review for the Pharmacy:
Since my mother was diagnosed with a serious illness, I’ve met some amazingly wonderful people. Bo, Jenny, and the pharmacy assistants at Walgreen’s pharmacy on Ralston and El Camino are no exception. They have been nothing but kind, compassionate, and friendly. Not only do they remember my name, but they ask how my mother’s doing every time I see them. For a busy pharmacy, that says a bit about how much they care about their customers. They often go beyond their responsibilities — eg. contacting doctors offices, insurance, and other Walgreens locations on my mom’s behalf. That is a true testament to their stellar customer service.
Thank you Bo, Jenny, and team! Keep up the great work!

i went for passport pictures and they got it done fast. the person took the photo and then you had to wait for 10min for them to resize and print it. he even applied a coupon for me! woot
i was surprised at the number of people who were picking up pictures but it’s b/​c there’s a lot of families in the area. so by that i’m sure that’s a recommendation for their photo printing services too!

Your average Walgreens with it’s normal conveniences. Ok As Seen On TV section which i perversely love. However the sale on pure leaf i ed tea is good. Walked out with a good amount of beverage for the road

Whenever you need some sort of small computer or home theater system accessories, you always go to Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Target, Wal-​Mart, Sears, or OSH. However, this Walgreens has an average selection of your basic surge protectors and other small computer and home theater system accessories that you’d usually think are only available at Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Target, Wal-​Mart, Sears or OSH.

I’m just a lone lady purchasing a gross of triple-​A batteries at 2 in the morning. Nothing to see here, folks.
Of course I get stuck behind a person with 8 953 689 356 378 coupons who wants a price check on everything as well, so by the time it was my turn at the front at the register, quite the line of judging eyes had developed behind me. Turns out, there’s a big demand for Walgreens’ BOGO Pringles post witching hour.
And not that it’s any of their or your business, but if you must know, the batteries were for my series of television remotes that all happened to die out somewhere between my recent cross-​country journey from Chicago to San Francisco, leaving me stuck on channel 3 for eternity. Hell, I tell you. Hell.
So anyway, I’ve been to this Walgreens a few times and this scenario (give or take the item I’m purchasing) seems to always be the case. Mega long lines because some nutball needs their coupons for athlete’s foot crème triple checked 100 times. There’s got to be a better system.
It’s nice that you can get a Clipper card here, but just now that you have to wait in the line at the register first, then ask them to page someone to photo, then ask them to ring you up for a Clipper card there.
You can get decent prices on eggs here and their mainstream greeting card selection is awful hard to beat in the suburbs. They’re open 24-​hours and the employees are patient and accommodating as f*ck, albeit sometimes a bit too patient and accommodating in my opinion with those crazy couponers.

This Walgreen’s is in a place with easy parking and I have had great luck in the help I get from the staff. Roy is the best person to ask about anything there. The store also carries the best Australian licorice.

Went in to photo lab, and Fernando was awesome!
I ordered prints online and when I received them I was not content. Fernando helped me fix the prints right there and then and managed to get my order done in no time :)
Have to admit that was the best customer service I’ve gotten.

This is the worst branch ever! The pharmacist’s have no clue and attendants are rude and out to rip you off! They will make choices like selling you 2 tubes of 30 grams for a higher price if they don’t have a single for 60 grams. Do yourself a favor and switch your default pharmacy to Costco’s.

I hate how the condom section is in the way of the pharmacy line. I can’t pick out the best one for my partner if 30 people are standing there watching me. And I can’t just be like «excuse me can you move out of line so I can look at the condoms. Or feminine products ect» HORRIBLE choice of placement for a pharmacy line.

I was very much disappointed with the service. They had many expired products way over a yr. Even when I mentioned it to the person in counter, She just replied ’ to take another one but everything was expired. They Just dint care to apologize or do anything about it.

I paid a visit to Walgreens at the time I was at Namaste Plaza. I was curious what this smaller version store would compare to its bigger sisters not far away off on El Camino and what services could it offer me. There is not much to be said, it’s more of your neighborhood pharmacy than a full house self service. Most of the clientele here go directly to the RX and have their prescriptions filled. I was more enchanted with shopping for coupon bargains, but the store was just way too small to carry what the other stores could put on their shelf, thus, merchandise fell short of inventory and off I went my «Mary» way!
It was a good try but I am sticking with my bigger Walgreens when it comes to self service goods!

This is regarding the Passport Photo.
It’s quite impressive that what you can screw up if you put your mind to it! Passport photos have a template and these guys have a machine that shows the photo, the template and let you chose that (I have seen this before, it has a pretty good interface). I assume if I go do my shopping, the person whose job is to take care of photos can spend couple of seconds and do this pretty simple job that doesn’t need any knowledge of photography or even knowing how to speak English. the face should fit between those two lines, easy right? Well, when I got the photo back, it look a little bit out of proportionate to me, but he said that I followed the template, so no worries. I decided to check that when I got to work, and amazingly enough, he did screw up. The photo is too close up and useless. And I am not going to risk my forms to be returned because someone doesn’t want to spend 10 second doing his job. Not sure if it worth returning to the place and ask for my money back.
TL;DR: Don’t take passport photos here, they can’t fit the photo to the template and they don’t have a ruler. So you will waste 20 minutes and 12 bucks on something that you can’t use.

i went in there the other day to return something but i didnt have my receipt. the manager came he wasnt really friendly and seemed annoyed that i didnt have it. i told him that the product didnt work so i wanted to return it, but he was making me feel like i stole the product and was returning it for free money. and i kept telling him that i was sorry i didnt have the receipt but he continued on with being rude. most of the time EVERYONE that helps me is super nice and helpful but thus guy was just rude. i hope i never have to run into him again

Pharmacy review only: this has been my pharmacy for a couple years now. no complaints. Dan, the pharmacy manager, Bo and Chryssa are always super friendly. I’m usually in-​n-​out in less than 5 minutes. Sometimes it can take a bit longer.

I prefer the bigger Walgreens in San Carlos and San Mateo, but this will do usually. It’s okay. Just don’t ask Dave O. about this place.