Walgreens

The best pharmacy ever! Been going there for over 7 years and never had a mistake! The pharmacy manager Van is wonderful. The assistant manager Steve is also great. Honorable mention also goes to April, they all work so hard under demanding work loads. One day a few years ago I met the store manager, I do not remember his name but he was a nice guy and very helpful. The store is always bright, clean and well stocked. I am happy to give this business 5 stars!

This Walgreens just moved its location closer to Happy Valley on Sunnyside. The cashiers I’ve encountered have always been helpful and friendly. BUT at my trip last night my cashier had to call the manager (blonde hair woman prob in late 30s) to void a transaction and ask a question and she was SOOOO RUDE!!! Rude to me && even RUDE TO HER OWN employee. I felt bad for my cashier for how the manager spoke down to her in front of customers and other employees, especially because she was just trying to be helpful to THE CUSTOMER. Probably my last time there in fear of coming in contact with this lady’s major attitude. I will just take my business to Rite Aid which is right across the street (and I shop at WAGS a ton!) and I will be telling all my fellow Wags shoppers not to go there too. Whoever owns this store should be careful she’s going to scare away all your customers and NEW customers in this area.
One star to the manager lady, but five stars to the cashier (she’s from Vegas she said)

The only redeeming quality about this store is their pharmacy. The fact it’s a drive through and their staff ONLY at the pharmacy is consistently kind and helpful. It’s also in the same lot as my favorite, Trader Joes and a bank.
The customer service and energy in this place are all over the place. I have to brace myself before entering. I wouldn’t come here if it weren’t for the convenience factor and I can print my tons of photos easily here. The quality of photos is kinda crappy and I’ve had awful customer service at this counter (if they’re even there, or show up). You can often find online coupons to discount your crappy prints.
The staff is either overly, sickenly sweet, or they ignore you. They really seem to like to yell across the store.
Their selection is okay, great if you’re in a rush and mainly shop for sale items. You have to make sure to sign up for their club card so you can get points to use toward product in the store. Big points for refilling prescriptions. Came in handy this spring when my family needed a new humidifier.
I really would like to leave more stars and a better review. However, after shopping here for the past two years, I can’t in good conscious fake the funk. The last time I was here, there was a human shit splatter on the brick wall where people park. Maybe an angry customer? Did I mention I also hate their lighting?
I just try to stick to the cashiers I know and get in and out.

You know how 1-​hour photos should take ONE HOUR? And you know how these days, you can upload pictures online and request for it to be done in one hour, and then you go into the store to pick it up?
All that is awesome. It’s supposed to be speedy service. And it shouldn’t be that hard either since digital pictures basically just get printed… It might’ve been more skilled when actual film was being processed, but now the monkey just needs to press print.
Well, my photos might’ve been finished in one hour, but let’s talk about how long I stook at the register trying to pick up my photos. I stood at the counter for five minutes, and then realized I had only seen one employee at the cash register. Now, that’s fine. It’s not like she was just standing there. There was a constant flow of haggered looking costumers popping in and going straight for her line because they really needed their smokes. I decided to walk around since she hadn’t noticed me, and then that’s where I saw all the other employees. There were at least three employees towards the back, and at least two of them were pretending to work. One was actually re-​stocking, but the other two were making sure everything on the shelf was in perfect order. Don’t get me wrong, I like a tidy store so it’s easier to find things… But I don’t think someone needs to get paid to re-​align shampoo bottles that were a quarter of an inch to the left instead of dead center. So that girl, and the other lady pretending to organize things were just dead weight.
I go back to the front after checking the place out, and stand at the photo center for another ten minutes. At this point, I find it less entertaining that these people are idiots and start to get annoyed. A few minutes later, the lady at the register yelled across the store, «Have you been helped?» So, in the same rude manner that she yelled across the store, I gave a very loud, «NOPE!»
A guy came to help me finally. I think he was a manager because the only reason he was near the front of the store and heard the other lady was because they had called for assistance, and I think they needed a manager to do a return. He asked me if I was there to pick-​up and what name it was under. I had counted out exact change for my photos 10 minutes earlier (I only had two, so it was $ 0.38), so I plopped it down on the counter as soon as he found my pictures in the little basket. I grabbed them and walked off as soon as he verified that I gave him exact change, I didn’t need the receipt, and I didn’t need to waste any more time waiting. When he realized I had walked off, he added, «Sorry about the wait!»
All I replied was, «It was only 20 minutes of my life.»
The whole online, 1-​hour photo process is supposed to save time. But considering Walgreens is a place that wastes time, go anywhere else that has this service.

Love is finding affordable store brand over the counter drugs at a store with a customer rewards card that gives you a discount on said drugs and eventually racks up points to save you more money.
Mmm drugs.
Convenient, reliable, and wickedly entertaining for people watching!

Drive-​thru pharmacies are just novel to me. Coupled with the super easy online refills, digital picture upload/​prints, and a huge store that is never too busy, this Walgreens is it for me. Sometimes, in the mornings, there is a crazy older woman who works the front check-​out. She’ll chat you up about nothing if you’re not careful. One of those odd SE 82^nd older folks… you know what I mean.
On the corner of 82^nd and Johnson Creek, so easy, so fast, just right.