Rite Aid

The pharmacy staff are absolutely amazing. I first visited them while on a business trip in need of an emergency supply of a prescription (hooray for lost luggage!) and several years later, after relocating to the area and moving twice, this is still my go-​to pharmacy. There is literally a CVS across the street from my new place and a Walgreen’s on the way to work, and even another Rite Aid closer than this one, and I still go out of my way to go here. I love the pharmacy staff here that much.
They pay great attention to detail, above and beyond the typical warn-​about-​the-​side-​effects-​and-​interactions speech. A complicated medication régime is a nightmare, but when you know there’s people double checking things, it puts your mind at ease — a LOT. From advising me to ask my doctor for blood tests to check for a nutrient one med can throw out of whack, to remembering that I need an OTC supplement with another med, and advising which week it’ll be on sale to stock up. Out of refills? They’ve got the doctor on speed dial. Doc write a script that doesn’t make sense? They’ll call and double check it. Doc write a script that isn’t maximizing insurance co-​pays? They’ll take it upon themselves to call and ask it to be rewritten! Two insurance companies? With different rules? A dosage that just doesn’t exist? You name it, every curveball I’ve seen thrown at them they’ve caught neatly and with a smile.
Only «complaint» I have about this location is that it somehow manages to look practically abandoned from the street, especially after dark, even when open! It’s a very clean and respectable building so it baffles me how. Oh, and no drive thru pharmacy.
Rite Aid in general has become my favorite drug store. Online refills, text message notifications are awesome. And their rewards program kicks-​butt: earn 500 points in a year and get 10% off all of next year! When each script earns 25 points each time it’s filled, it adds up fast! Watch the circulars too, sometimes they’ll have awesome deals on gift cards for other retailers, great way to save $$ is to get cards for places you’d be shopping anyways!

Here’s something that doesn’t happen often in a store these days:
Last night my family walked over from the rail trail to buy Puffs Plus tissues. I asked one of the staff to point me toward tissue. He suggested that Puffs were on sale. Since it was Saturday night and he was removing the sale tags, we wouldn’t otherwise know. How often is a store associate so in tune with his stock and sales to be so helpful?