Walgreens

I’ve been going to this Walgreens ever since I can remember. The pharmacy treats us nicely, but sometimes the staff in general (depending on what time of day) can be either friendly, or rather indifferent. Today was one of those indifferent days. Usually, this Walgreens is busy and I have to wait a long time. I grew up in St. Louis, and never found the attitudes of the store people to be that friendly. When I need something from the pharmacy, I generally get a friendly service. Today appeared to be a slow day because I saw no line and very few customers. I went to get an over the counter medicine for my aging parent, and simply asked one of the employees, who was dressed like the store manager. I asked him if a certain item was buy one get the other half off. He replied by saying that whatever the sign said. Then the same person was checking me out, there was some problem with the credit card machine. There was only one customer behind doing this annoying whistle like he was waiting for me to go. Well, my card went through, and then the when my receipt came out, he quickly said handed me the receipt without asking if I wanted in the bag or not, and said have a nice day. It was his tone of voice that really bothered me. I have to wonder how many others this Sunday afternoon manager has treated in this manner. It’s a good thing there’s another Walgreens and a brand new CVS nearby. Maybe I’ll just go there if my business isn’t appreciated. I’ve been to Walgreens in the east and west coast, but I don’t recall being treated this badly. And I seem to recall the employes from this Webster Groves Walgreens 20 years ago having an attitude problem. Keep your store policy. Have your laws, but the customer is King.

This has to be the slowest Walgreens in the world. Especially if you bypass the front of the store and hit the clinic or the pharmacy. And it’s not because they’re not trying, but they always seem really really understaffed. If you make the mistake of going tot he pharmacy on a Saturday afternoon you will be in a line 6 people deep while you watch three people in the pharmacy run around like crazy people trying to fill everyone’s requests. With a huge in-​store line, a drive-​through and the amount of elderly people in this area, it is laughable that they don’t have the pharmacy better staffed. During the week there are usually just two workers. When I went to drop off a prescription for some antibiotics for my son I was told it would take 45 minutes to an hour if I wanted to wait in store. That’s insane. There is no reason for that.
The Take Care Clinic is nice and I like the staff there but again, at any given moment when you walk by there will be at least 3 people waiting for one person (who’s doing check-​in, vitals and the diagnosis).
The store is clean and they have a great selection but they need to be better staffed. I’m trying to find another Walgreens not too far away so I can pick-​up my prescriptions there because I’m so tired of dealing with the really long wait.

What can I say? Walgreens has everything. Medicine? Check. Food? Check. Booze? Check. White elephant party gifts? Check. Yep, they have awesome tacky holiday décor, suitable for all of your white elephant needs.
It’s in Webster, so nice location. By my house, so I always go here. The pharmacy always is accurate about the time to fill my prescriptions.
Extra bonus? Download the Walgreens app for your Droid and instead of having to call in a refill, you can SCAN THE BARCODE of your meds and they will refill it without you having to enter any information!
Freaking.AWESOME.