CVS

This cvs is disgusting. There boxes of things just sitting by the isles they’re supposed to be in. A water pipe is leaking into a trash can below. The staff isn’t very helpful. Cvs corporate wouldn’t want to see this location

Yuck! That was the first and last impressions I had of this location. I have this thing with nail clippers. I pick my right hand’s middle finger when I get anxious and there have been more than plenty of things to be anxious about. I use nail clippers to remove the unevenness of the area I pick on… I had lost my nail clipper in last week’s move, and the finger was looking like it barely survived a shark attack. So, I stopped by this CVS after picking up two tacos for dinner at the HOT (House of Tacos) after work. No biggie, right? Oh my… I was so wrong.
I’ve been to my share of CVS stores, but this one made the bottom of the barrel list. It looked like CVS threw up inside… Disorganized, cramped and out of stock on almost everything including nail clippers. They had toe nail clippers… I guess for giants, but no nail clippers. There were two cashiers, one of them (a young guy) was nice enough to look for them while the older lady cashier annoyingly commented that they must be out.
I made a mad dash to Ralph’s cross the street, and their «nail grooming» section was well stocked and organized. Ralph’s saved the day and my middle finger, while CVS had me dazed at their hot mess of the store.
Nearest Metro Station: Red Line at Hollywood/​Western Station

Do not deal with the pharmacy.
The pharmacist is an untrained fool. He could not figure out how to sell me cold medicine with a passport, because my driver’s license was expired. Worse yet, he was nasty about it. Now I have a cold and have to drive somewhere else.

It’s close to my home. always go there to get anything I want))).highly recommended place !!!

Good customer service. Close to my place I really like it. Every time short line, u don’t need wait for a long time. I can say just one 2 thumbs way up. Thank u

Thank God for a place in hollywood to buy beer cheap!

Line is always long and everything is over-​priced. But I like coming in here for redbox.

I found the following statement on the CVS website. It is an excerpt from a letter purporting to be from CVS Chairman and CEO Tom Ryan
«„„„Our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility took us to some interesting places in 2009. One example is our CVS/​pharmacy GreenBagTag program. This program, launched in 2009, provides rewards to customers who forego plastic bags for reusable shopping bags (or who choose to use no bag at all). It was borne from our realization that our ExtraCare program, the nation’s largest customer loyalty program, was capable not only of providing savings to customers, but also of creating powerful incentives for socially responsible behavior. Already, our customers have had their GreenBagTags scanned more than 6 million times.“““»
Here is the link if you want to read some more drivel.
I was in the store in Hollywood the other day, and since I only bought 2 items; a Diet Coke and a Twix bar, I did my small part for Mother Earth by not getting a bag even though the cashier really wanted me to have one.
Here is a picture of my receipt for the Diet Coke and Twix bar. It is 17 inches long. That’s not a typo. It was about as long as one of the newborn babies that entrust us to take care of the planet. Did CVS and Mother Earth have some sort of family quarrel?

You know this place is ghetto when they have a security guard equipped with a gun.
The place is a mess, with fluorescent bulbs that need to be changed because they’re flickering like a strobe light at a rave.
The windows have metal bars in front of them to prevent break-​ins.
At least there’s ample parking… but that’s probably because no one wants to come here. Try the «safer» looking Walgreen’s across the street.

Shopping list going in:
–Nail polish remover
–Shampoo for red hair
Shopping bag coming out:
–Nail polish remover
–Three pack strawberry Trident (it was on sale!)
–Random frog key-​stone (it was on sale!)
–Booklet of temporary tattoos (they were only a dollar!)
–Two eyebrow pencils (for modifying my temporary tattoos! FOR ONLY TWO DOLLARS!)
–Fifty tea-​lights (they were only a dollar!)
–A jar of bubbles (I needed them.)
Damnit. I totally forgot the shampoo, didn’t I?
Four stars for having what I need, minus one because they also have everything else in the world so I forget to buy what I need. CVS Pharmacy, you win again.

This CVS has been neglected and is need of an interior remodel compared to the newer Walgreens across the street. It doesn’t help that the stores adjacent to it are both vacant. However I did find a soap dish and specific kind of bandages which were not available at Walgreens hence the third star.

The Walgreens kitty-​corner from this CVS is infinitely better, but I happened to be on the south side of the street today and stopped at the lesser drugstore. I needed some red lipstick, and all of the lipsticks looked like they’d been opened/​used. I was struck with a nearly disastrous urge to use the restroom, and actually went next door to the ghetto Carl’s Jr. rather than use the facilities at this CVS. STAY AWAY

This particular CVS is like a three-​ring circus of freaks, trannies, prostitues, homeless, crackheads, migrant workers (thanks to the Home Depot across the street) and high school drop-​outs. I only come here when the new Walgreens caddy-​corner is out of something.
Like today… when they were out of Zicam nasal swabs. Bastards!

Dear CVS,
I love you. I really do. I love that you carry mid-​range cosmetics and beauty products. I love that you are merchandised neatly and by someone who cares, or is paid to act like they care while they are working. I love your candy selection. I love that you are carpeted, for some weird reason. I love your always clean bathrooms. I love that I can check out my own items at the self check register, and I love that everyone else in my neighborhood is too dumb to remember to do so when there is a horrendously long line, so I never have to wait.
CVS, will you marry me?

Best friend S. is visiting, we’ve been out late, and he realizes he needs some contact lens solution (I’ve had lasik and can no longer provide these amenities). We’re both a bit tipsy and giddy from all the weird adventures we’ve had thus far. Little did we know we were about to encounter…
duh duh daaaaah
Weird L.A. Conversation #369
The motion-​sensing Santa at the cash register, well, senses us, and bleats out:
«Ho ho ho ho ho! Muuuurrrrry Christmas!!!»
S says to the tired-​looking frazzle-​haired cashier with the aquamarine spackled-​on eye make up:
«Gawd, you must get so tired of hearing that all day.»
Her, with an undefinable Eastern-​European accent: «It is better than listening to my idiot co-​workers!»
Us, taken a bit aback, given that idiot co-​workers are about three feet away on either side of her: «mmmmh!»
Her: «I HATE UNITED STATES! People here are TRASH! TRASH!»
S, who is unfailingly courteous and polite, even to crazy people, and who is also a bit drunk and not thinking it through: «Really?»
Her: «In my country, I am doctor.»
Me: «Wow. What country?» ‘Cause at this point, I’m thinking: STORY!
Her: «Lithuania!»
Me, meaningfully: «Ahhhhhh» as if to say: of course! with what they’ve done to you Lithuanians, you deserve to be bitter and crazy!
We begin to move away.
Her: «I have not met one single intelligent person in United States. In Lithuania, everyone is doctor! Everyone is intelligent!»
Me: «I know!» that’s always a good neutral answer
Her: «And people here, they are from here, they are from there, they are comink from here there here there here there (I swear to god she’s saying this) and they are (dramatic pause for effect) Stu-​PID!»
S: «Okay, have a nice evening!»
We start to slowly walk away, our backs away from her;
Her, still talking, and waving around one of those little price sensors:
«I go back to my country! I have enough! Price to pay too high!!»
Me: «Okay, bye!»
We’re running backwards at this point.
S, as we walk out the door: «Did I tell you about the weird guy I met at Crunch today?»
Fellini circus music wells up as we walk to the parking lot.