Walgreens

Walgreens remodeled this store, in order to put in a frozen foods section. Not only did they put one in, but they also removed most of the non-​frozen grocery items, and added every kind of freeze dried ramen noodle packets under the sun. At least, they had frozen pizza, I thought. Well, now even those are gone! Sure, there are a lot of tourists in this area, but there are also a lot of long term American residents. I miss being able to go to Walgreens, and being able to buy a can of pork and frikkin’ beans! I swear, the same incompetent people who run Walgreens, must moonlight as decision makers for Muni!

This is the first time I had been in a Walgreens and received amazing service. Mary who’s one of the service clerks by cosmetics was so sweet, friendly and helped answer every question I had and was quick to jump on the register to help when she seen a line.
But what made he more awesome then the typical clerk is that she wore thee most infectious smile! From the point we walked into the store to our last transaction.
Thank you Mary for your help, I hope you’re some how recognized for your friendly smile and quick response to helping people!

The guys there are cool and friendly they are always helpful and they do care. They deal with a lot of shoplifting and homeless people. I wish they can get more selection of sensed candles
This location is convenient for me.

Great variety of selection. Been here several times because it is convinient to my location.

Not a bad store, although they don’t have as much stock as other Walgreens, which is a bit inconvenient. There’s always the same group of hobos that hang out right by the door at night.
There are these two employees though (this is the third time I’m encountered them) every time I check out they’re always chit chatting away, taking up my time. The one who usually checks me out slows down, sometimes he even stops scanning items to finish a conversation. I’m a nice person, so I usually just drop passive hints saying I have my own bag or ask him an obnoxious question like «can I swipe my card now?» To let him know I’m still there waiting… Sometimes he’ll finish up quickly or just completely ignore me to finish his conversation.
It doesn’t upset me to boycott the location all together but still, people have places to be. Or at least let me in on the gossip if it’s worth that much of my time –_–

I’m not normally one to leave reviews — in fact, after using Unilocal for several years THIS was the place that got me to finally leave a review.
ZERO stars. Awful. Overpriced. Rude. Incompetent and lazy employees. Terrible. Oh how I miss the small family-​owned pharmacies («drug stores») that existed before these corporations stomped them out of existence.
I hate this place. I have lived a couple blocks uphill from this place for several years, and I absolutely despise this place. Worst Walgreens ever. Every few months or so I am in a hurry so I chance it at this location, and it is always the same experience.
Incompetent help — ranging from the floor personnel to the cashiers. Time before last I had an abscessed wisdom tooth and needed a few basic things (i.e. clove oil, etc) to get me through until my appointment for an extraction a couple days later. Though the website listed each of the items, none were stocked at this location. After getting NO help from floor help who told me what aisle (s) I was looking for MIGHT be on, I went to talk to the pharmacist.
I thought the floor staff’s attitude was about as smug and condescending as it could be… until the pharmacist was kind enough to (eventually) set down her phone and grace me with her attention.
Same thing, some suggestions as to where the items I needed were and then the revelation that «hmmm maybe we don’t carry them here». Gee thanks. Then I asked for a few homeopathic remedies and at first she had no idea what I was talking about until I started explaining to her what they were, then suddenly «oh yeah those are only available by prescription.» BS. I went to Rainbow Grocery and got everything I was looking for from very helpful employees who were happy to show me where things were AND explain their usage. Idiots.
My most recent experience was more of the same, except this time to treat a finger injury. Floor staff is absolutely useless, unhelpful when asked for advice, and incompetent — assuming you can understand what they are mumbling out. Many of the people — like the cashier today who helped me return the item one of the other geniuses recommended a couple days ago — speak very little english. Difficult to communicate with someone when they can’t understand what you are saying.
It’s always been like this for as long as I can remember. These people have zero interest in helping their customers, they are rude, they are incompetent, and they absolutely refuse to help you find something. CVS is much better, avoid this place if you can.

I’ve been going to this store for seven years. Most of the employees at night, don’t care and have zero customer service skills. It’s just impossible to connect with these people.

The staff is unfriendly. They need work on giving good customer service. When you ask them where an item is they will not go out of their way to show you.

Just had to patronize this WG again — out of dire necessity, mind you (b/​c I have a Balance Financial MasterCard and needed cash.)
They only have the following cash back options: $ 5, $ 10, or $ 20. They claim there’s no way to enter another amount. So you cannot get, say $ 15 or $ 40, or $ 16.66. (I formerly did this.)
Fine. Moving on.
The credit card terminal asked me if I would like to pay with my card (after I swiped said card already!). I was dumbfounded. I asked the cashier (who’s a fry short of a happy meal) if I had enough points stacked up, and that’s why it’s asking me if I want to use my points first. He gave me a dumb look like I had lobsters coming out of my ears, so I just pushed «yes» in the terminal display.
Then, after the transaction was over and I got my $ 10 cash, he chastised me and looked at the receipt and said you don’t have 5000 points yet, (5000 points is the minimum to redeem for merchandise).
Are they taking other forms of payment now, like Q-​Tips? Or pencils? Or something else I am unawares of? F-​me — WG’s sucks!

Unlike most of you I’ve been around SF long enough to recall this is one of the first Walgreens in SF. Prior to this store there was a private pharmacy and small grocery at the location which Walgreens took over to get a foothold in SF.
Over the years this store has changed a lot but not for the better. I had not been in this store as another further up the hill is better stocked and open more hours (Sutter at Powell).
This store recently had a makeover which was not for the better. It seems Walgreens decided to reduce the clutter here and reduced the number of isles to provide wider isles perhaps for the handicapped to be more easily able to shop which is a guess on my part. Regardless of the reason this store now has a significantly smaller selection of everything than they had before.
I went in to buy 2 liter sodas (cold), what I found was only 10−12oz cold drinks they wanted to charge you more for than a 2 liter bottle. The warm 2 liter bottle selection was the weakest I’ve seen in any Walgreens basically an empty shelf. The stores stock level was very low and their prices higher than at adjacent Walgreens for the same items (example Diet Pepsi is .40 cents a bottle more expensive than at another Walgreens nearby (and theirs are chilled not warm).
I wanted to buy the standard cheapo paper towels all Walgreens carry but not this one; rahter they only had the more expensive towels which I paid $ 1.65 more for to get a 6 pack when I could have bought the 8 pack standard towels for only $ 5 at almost any Walgreens. They have stacked their limited offerings with the more expensive items than most Walgreens to rip off the toursists who have no knowledge of the area. SF locals like myself expect most Walgreens to carry most of the Walgreen’s brand items but this is not true of this location.
I’d say their redo of this place made it a marginal 7 – 11 style store with a lot less selection and with higher prices. I ran into a cute redhead who was also a local looking for cat food and she asked me what the hell are they doing to this store it is useless.
There are several other Walgreens east of here surrounding union square and you’d be better off going to them if you need a Walgreens as the selections are better and the prices lower (with the exception of the two story store on lower powell near the cable car turn around which is a tourist rip off)… As I write this there are no nearby Walgreens to the immediate west of this one on Geary FYI.
Frankly I don’t know why they just don’t close this site as too small and concentrate on doing a better job with the larger stores nearby. I’ve lived up the hill from here for 35 years…

I hate this place. For some unknown reason, the pharmacy here cannot fill a single prescription correctly. Its only this Walgreens, there are two others Ive had to transfer these prescriptions to that fill them with no problem. One member of the pharmacy staff actually suggested I do something that would most likely cause me irreparable damage… even after I informed her that what she had told me was incorrect and showed her evidence to support what I was saying, her response was «oh we can no do dat». So the pharmacy and their inept staff are useless. The actual store itself is cramped with overpriced crap… I can never find exactly what Im looking for. The cashier lines are always long either due to understaffing or the ineptitude of employees there… making people wait 10 deep in line with one cashier while watching another employee halfassedly stock the candy isle really pisses me off.
Ive also noticed that this location discriminates against anyone not asian as they have no white, latin, black or middle eastern employees.
Overall, fuck this place and their idiot employees.

(2) ~ A very small Walgreens with homeless people outside asking for money?!

Look you are in Tenderloin, not the prettiest part of town so if you are looking for something bigger or ‘nicer’ probably look elsewhere. As far as this Walgreens it’s got all the essentials someone on the go would need: beverages, toiletries, junk food. Overall it’s convenient if you are staying at a nearby hotel like I am.
Only thing is if you give $ to a homeless person don’t be surprised if others come and hit you up for cash.
TIP: You can get a discounted all day cable car pass for $ 18… normally $ 6 each way

It’s small, but everything is here.
We walked into this tightly-​packed Walgreens keeping in mind our staycation rule: to patronize places we had never been before. Stocking up was easy.
Dental floss, crystal geyser, a loaf of bread, a 4-​pack of butter, and the coveted, elusive deodorant for the taking! The deodorant was not locked up here, but was behind sliding retainers, so when the earthquake comes we can all feel fresh amidst the rubble.
I was so astonished I forgot to see whether there was something locked up. It wasn’t obvious in my tour of the front half of the store.
Win for Walgreens: $ 14.53.

***This is a very small Walgreens so you definitely do not have the selection you get at your bigger pharmacies (this is noticeably evident in their poor variety of bottled water multi packs); the biggest problem though is their high prices; this Walgreens feels very pricey (even for a pharmacy located in Downtown San Francisco)***
Street parking is difficult to find here.

I took a passport picture here and it was worst picture ever… I did not said my name, he wrote my name «ping»… Who is ping!!!

Need something quick (and non-​alcoholic)? Come here. Get your water, chapstick, toiletries, snacks.
You’ll probably also get some attitude from the staff, free of charge. But, then again, realize that they have to deal with a lot of cray cray all day, and ANYONE’S patience can wear thin pretty quickly.
Items here may not be the best deals. You’re in the middle of a fistload of pricier hotels. But, if you’re willing to pay for something quickly to get the hell out of dodge and back into your hotel room without much fuss, you’re good to go!
Beware. Plenty of craziness all day, but especially towards evening. Walgreens closes at midnight everyday…

It’s a small convenience /​drug store at the corner of Geary just up from Union Square. It’s a good place to stop for munchies or some basic essentials.

This place was packed!!! Where did all these people come from???
I was craving chocolate and had no choice but to stand in line.
The line moved fairly quickly, I must say.
All for chocolate…
Next time, I’m bringing my own…

Came in here after shopping at Macy’s Men Store looking for some Cold Ezze.
As I walk in I hear the associate tell someone else about something else, «sorry, it’s discontinued».
I have no idea what product he was looking at but it wasn’t Cold Ezze.
So my husband asks her, «Excuse me, Where’s the Cold Ezze?» and she responds, «Sorry, it’s discontinued.»
What? Lazy! So we went to Safeway and picked it up.