Walgreens

Drive thru is very fast. It used to be extremely slow. Store is clean and employees nice

Convenient, well-​stocked, good neighborhood, and for the most part, well-​patrolled. Being open 24 hrs is a HUGE deal! Walgreens — always there when I need em! The stuff they have in here is Sooo adorable!!! I mean really, this is like my favorite store

Pro: good location. 24 hour pharmacy
Con: they can’t seem to figure out how to bill my insurance and have charged me full price both times. 2 different insurances. Don’t think they quite know what they’re doing.
Checking out the rite aid next month to see if they can figure it out. These people can’t. Good luck!
Update: they don’t know what they’re doing. Moved my scripts and everything is perfect!

Whalegreens is where you go when you are looking for Moby Dick. However if you want to give up and just get some pain pills for your throbbing peg leg, then come here, Mr. Ahab.
I’ve been to this Walgreens a few times, most recently with my friend Alex K when I was visiting him late at night. It really struck me what a convenient location it’s in for those in late-​night Allentown.
It’s right in the middle of Allentown, just a block north along Delaware, and it’s 24 hours and clean inside. It has very high prices so I give it a 4, but for the service it provides to the downtown community, a place to «get stuff» in the middle of the night it’s absolutely vital. I recognize that and so even though it’s busy and awful during the day, I give this location a 4 for the service it provides to downtown at night.

Typical Walgreens if you ask me. Workers and friendly, and they are generally always well stocked. They are open 24 hours and they have a pharmacy drive through. Sometimes if you go in, the pharmacy line takes FOREVER. However, it is the closest one to my apt, so I will continue to come here.

Ugh. Only if desperate. Employees lack motivation to do work. Some customers have serious entitlement issues and lack good citizenship — two people cut me off in the checkout line and acted ridiculous when I called them out on it. Also saw a woman working the street in the parking lot.

This Walgreens is nicely located on Delaware and North. Great location. You can drive in from either Delaware or North, so easy access. Parking lot is ok. Not the bets ever, but fine, and well plowed this winter when I have been.
Given the location, they are a busy place. Especially at lunchtime. Large prescription filling area, and usually people waiting, but it moves fast. The pharmacy employees are super nice and know their client group well, which is a great thing.
This is a real «neighborhood drugstore» as in the 1950s (although its more modern than that). But walking in its much more personal than the other Walgreens around town. They must have a large «walk in» clientele.

Remember that kid from second grade who showed up every day with some new bout of the plague? The kid who always kept the mini-​pack of Kleenex in his back pocket, the one who visited the nurse’s office every day after lunch to down some sort of medicine that never seemed to quite work? Oddly enough, this kid was never absent from school. He was always there, always sniffling, the cause, you now realize, that you compulsively wash your hands. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Allentown’s Walgreens.
See, this Walgreens has a problem that it never seems to be able to fix, no matter how much everyone involved acknowledges it. Universally understood to be one of the busiest pharmacy/​convenience stores in Western New York thanks to the high-​density area it serves, this Walgreens nevertheless persists in keeping only one register attendant working at any given time. The result of this practice is that no matter what hour one enters, be it 8:30 A.M., 12 noon, 6:00 in the evening, or midnight, a line is to be expected. Frustratingly, lines inevitably cause such consternation that the register attendant radios for help at the front, only for a second attendant to rush over from who knows where, help manage the line, and scurry away, only for the scene to be replayed identically five minutes thence. Long story short: Anticipate a wait.
The selection the store offers is bafflingly good at times. The Delish and Nice store brand foods and household goods often beat name brand equivalents in both price and taste handily. Some of the offerings are in fact so good that they nearly reach Trader Joe’s faux gourmet level. (I’m looking at you dark chocolate, caramel, sea salt crisps.) Meanwhile, very bad beer is forever on sale at very good prices. It doesn’t appear that this Walgreen’s has yet caught on to the fact that it should be stocking more microbrews than it does, but I hold out hope. First aid and OTC good are extensive. Nutrition items are subpar. Office gear is subpar, but variety of shaving equipment is excellent. Headphones come in great variety, while admittedly all a bit low-​end. No Beats by Dre or Bose here. The store lacks grocery items (i.e. produce) but it does offer fresh milk, eggs, Bison cottage cheese (a big deal for yours truly), English muffins, and pita bread. In other words, this Walgreens is pretty well stocked.
I have not used the pharmacy to fill a script, but I have regularly engaged the services of this Walgreens photo center for passport photos and digital prints. Depending on who is working in the back, the amount of time required to produce anything seems to vary absurdly. Generally, passport photos have been produced while I was waiting, but I was once told that four hours were required. What? Another time, a simple set of digital prints on matte required an overnight stay. Most of the time, they do seem to get the job done pretty quickly in that not-​quite-​high-​quality endemic of Walgreens everywhere. Rejoice at the thought of grainy passport photos. Oodalolly!
4 stars for products
2 stars for efficiency
3 stars for photo center
3 stars overall

I only go to this Walgreens… When I absolutely have to.

One of the busiest pharmacies in the city (just mere blocks from the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus), but aside from the pharmacy section… moves the crowd quickly. In that defense, the pharmacy does take their time making sure the prescription is accurate and they do take their time to explain clearly if you have questions on your prescription. Call your prescription in early or use that neat app for smart phones to scan your refills.
The management is plentiful at this place, always seems to be two managers around, checking to make sure everything’s in order.
They have an expansive sales flyer available at the door if you hadn’t gotten one in the paper or mail, and it’s highly recommended to check it out for the best deals.
Other than that, it’s a good store to pick up some convenience items at.

I really want to say that I cringe when I hear store employees forced to «suggest Items that are on sale». I wish the management would stop this practice, let the employees be human!

Walgreens are everywhere. Theres nothing special nor spectacular about them. They have a nice friendly staff and good prescription center. it’s too bad that they don’t care about neighborhoods.
For example they built a new store on W. Giard and Delaware in Tonawanda. Ten years later, they abandon the one story leaving a huge empty lot on Delaware to build two new locations, about one mile down the road in each direction. It’s ridiculous!