It was supposed to be on auto refill. Well I ran out again. That way I never show up with my meds not ready to pick up. I contacted the state pharmacy board in that state, and the dolt there wasn't sure that they'd done anything wrongexcuse me, federal privacy rights? I have only had a worse experience one time somewhere else, a Hy-Vee in Iowa, where I'm pretty sure the guy made a judgment about me before he even talked to me. Sue,I DID! I have so many bad stories to share. The ham will not fitlol. I agree that being on the other side of the phone/window/counter, dealing with 50 needy un-medicated people can be stressful, but I am also of the opinion that it takes TWO to tango and a little courtesy and respect on BOTH sides of the counter should just be done, no matter how crabby you are or how long you've been without meds. I also have to make them sign the long. They check on you every five minutes. And we could not even get our freak on. Ghetto! Also, let's say you want to invest in this company and make it a career. It's very reassuring to me to know other people are looking out for them. They have stolen my benzos and committed insurance fraud and shorted my husband by two thirds of his inhalers putting him in the hospital with an exacerbation! What a bunch of idiots. My insurance company is all set to pay it's share, and I'm ready to pay mine. On May 9th 2022 I can finally leave the house ,I go in person to speak to them and the pharmacy tech says nope to soon to fill,you just picked it up May 5th 2022There is NOWAY I picked it up I was in bed with Covid. The employee evaluation is completed on a form online but you dont discuss your performance unless you ask to do so. The tech looked right through the window at me and walked away. Let me guess. I am so so so so so so so sick of this company using and abusing us. I reached out the corporate offices. Chimpanzees can be trained to do a better job (although I have too much compassion to ever subject one of them to the Walgreens environment ). You folks would do well to open your eyes and see that you have competition in the market. Hopefully all the Pharmacy jobs will be replaced with automated AI robotic devices. They are interfering with my medical care, and I am thinking about suing. Give em a 1-hour notice XD. Kyber Ninja. This happens every month. . Because of Covid I am not picking up all of my parents' medications. It's unacceptable to make anyone go without their medication. I work first and second shift and none of the 24-hour pharmacy Walgreens in my area will fill prescriptions after 11:30 p.m. This is the first time Ive ever spoken publicly. I looked like shit yes, but maybe, just maybe, it was from being a mother of three with a horrible sinus infection). Oh and the drive thru. He needs to know how sick it has made you and check it against your other prescriptions to find out what the problem is! Walgreens Pharmacy is a widely-known provider of pharmaceutical services across North America. It means: answering questions promptly and courteously, making service agreements and plans clear and easy to understand and use, promptly returning phone calls, updating information correctly into the database, treating customers with respect despite their own prejudices, not making unwarranted judgments about clients, sending medications in a timely manner, and communicating with the nursing companies they contract with, among other things. 12. co. to sort things out. I always pee on company time. Then you see them smoking outside ten minutes later. Empty shelves, fewer selections, iffy prescrips. I think I'm lucky with my local Walgreens. In a statement to CNN, the company said it. I hate them. This all should just be automated at most pharmacies to save everybody involved from immense suffering. After just having Covid my lungs are in not good shape. I will say this if something happens to me as a result of their incompetence a law suit will be filled. I'd be finding me a new job pronto. I hate using chains. He is having heart trouble today and I am currently in line at the pharmacy trying to pick up a prescription. Ok, enough venting. If someone was having you do something that could be illegal and make you lose your job would you do it? How many people overpay and under utilize their health care coverage because sleazy companies like Walgreens!? The pharmacist said nothing is wrong and it is still not filled days later! Not by any means saying that you are. I had to use the Walmart pharmacy for years when I went to school, and just no. Etc., etc., etc.. may they burn in hell along with their inattentive district/regional manager in Ft Myers and those POS supervisors of theirs who are perpetually in a meeting while their spouses no doubt fornicate with farm animals and the local population of ex circus folk. I went back to Walgreens with the bottle and complained about their lack of respect for the person's privacy. I was told they had just given me three bottles. They shouldn't have to talk to management, they should have been told about their breaks when they started. Up until yesterday. use them. I'm with Rabbit on this one. I have some cheap ones, some free ones that came with a med, and more expensive ones. I don't feel like I should take chances with their sloppiness! Tommy offered to let me use his Flonase. Because they involved the police they made me plead to a nothing to cover for the corporation and police. Thanks. The Walgreens pharmacy on the northeast corner of Vanderbilt Beach Rd. I called 2 hours ago and they told me my prescription would be ready in 1 hour. I had a third shift person tell me that this happened to her. No thats insane. One store gave no one a 15 minute break besides the girl that worked in the morning. Thanks. My wife and I had some issues and I was not able to hold an erection and i went to order my viagra not only did they make me wait for 8 hours, but they gave me the wrong medication. Investigation by the California State Board of Pharmacy finds that a Walgreens . Just got into a argument with the pharmacist. They don't train people. We also had notes saying straightening isn't optional when we have a manager and 1 employee (me) closing at a time and it gets busy so there isn't a lot of time to focus on straightening, as well as a note saying we are no longer allowed to go to the bathroom unless we are on break. The previous year I was never even told there was an evaluation! Walgreens says Express Scripts was offering below-average reimbursements for the more than 80 million prescriptions it fills annually for Express Scripts members[8]. But some pharmacist don't care that much about controlled substances, that is probably who filled your script with-out verifing it. Catch these people and give someone who is polite a chance to take their job. Next time I am going to CVS. I got my Paxil and hopefully will feel better but the withdrawal affects, brain shocks, and black spots I keep seeing (aren't those visual hallucinations?) Walgreens sucks the most. Thank you and Fuck off. This will surely increase the credibility of your complaint. This is not the first time Walgreens sucked. Yes, pharmacists know what the job entails. At this point in time, most pharmacies are short with pharmacists; therefore a lot of people are working over time to better serve you. You haven't been in the med clinic in quite some time. One day cancer may come for them, and when it does I hope that they are denied medically necessary pain medication just because it is a weekend. You can talk to us, sternly look at us and leave up angry signs about "This is your job. There is no system of organization. I had my medications transferred to UHC Optum service. Aside from creating potential conflicts of interest, the industry presence . Walgreens is the worst in every way possible. PS, as a nurse I've been on the "other side" myself, and have dealt with ppl without having to insult their intelligence or pontificate to them, and guess what, it really works!!! WTF. I will go back to Walgreens one more time, and that will be to chew some major ###. On top of that, I like some of the repeat customers and I dont feel like harassing them to buy a candy bar every single time that I see them. They are always really busy and the staff are always running around practically bumping into each other but they all manage to be cool. Just dont take the break." Please dont tell me that Walgreens hiring new people has anything to do with trying to save the company money on paying for our health insurance. Access your free Rx discount card online and use it at Walgreens Pharmacy locations nationwide. Florida's nine-member board, for instance, includes a lawyer for CVS and a director of pharmacy affairs at Walgreens. I did get a rain check. True, it's not the pharmacy's responsibility to provide multiple emergency supplies, but IMHO, any pharmacist or tech worth their salt should treat ppl respectfully and give an explanation that makes sense to their client/customer. They are just paid a lot of money to guard the corporate drug stash and make sure people arent popping the merchandise. It really sucks to go thru SSRI withdrawal. Jan 26, 2009 - Cashier in Clermont, FL Recommend CEO Approval Business Outlook Pros The discount, most of my coworkers were great to work with. Walgreen Pharmacy, you're fired. So why would I get it? Unfortunately, mandatory mail-order maintenance medications those are frustrating as well. Most stores give you one. Wh At least 3 times last year (and all within 3 or 4 months of each other) they gave an emergency supply. Before I moved, I was getting it filled at a different Hy-vee and my pharmacist there filled one mixed and gave me three powders to mix myself. I repeatedly said the word "Flonase." What food deals or any deals have you found. She constantly had customers asking for her. Pharmacy Hours: M-F 9am-1:30pm, 2pm-9pm, Sa 9am-1:30pm, 2pm-6pm, Su 10am-1:30pm, 2pm-6pm Photos Hours Mon: 8am - 10pm Best case scenario, they become assistant manager after three years of busting their butt and appeasing the various personalities of management. When other managers work, they do aisle 10. Walgreens is right by work, I pass it every day whereas the nearest mom and pop is out of my way. "If you sell this candy bar, you get a nickel!" They are very busy at times so I go at off hours. Refill in a snap by scanning your barcode. Details: Walgreens is working with advisers and expects to launch a process next month, per Bloomberg. There's already a sign up saying the sale price but you have to put another sticker UNDERNEATH the sign that's already up because there's no room to put it. I drop off the prescription and they tell me to come back in the morning. I understand how frustrating it is to wait so long for a prescription. I hate Walgreens, and you should, too. Those are the kinds of prices I like to see. Just be aware that the brand-name product may not always be immediately available, and that your insurance provider may only cover the cost of the generic drug, leaving you on the hook for any. The pharmacist at Walgreens 45549 HWY 27, Davenport FL 33897 is a very unprofessional and rude person. Current Walgreens Pharmacy Prices and Discounts. Look how much they saved by not training the new hires AND the managers correctly. God, I love my grandmother. I waited patiently again in the small waiting area and after 45 min went and asked if it was done. Also every time I go there, in St Paul, a patient is always disgruntled and frustrated. Extra 15% off $40+ vitamins. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I have interfaced with 2staff pharmacists who were good. I asked to speak with the manager and the manager never showed up. I asked what I was charged with and I literally was charged with the manager saying I said something nobody else heard. Instead of granting her the transfer, they had to hire a new girl who was horrible and broke things, literally, every day. They are grossly understaffed! And their Option Care Service has also earned an ultimate FAIL. The constant badgering to sell the item of the month. And the poor techs dont get paid enough which leads to low quality techs being hired. refused to give me meds after covid ..lucky i didnt wind back up in hospitalor a lawsuit. After repeated errors with insurance and billing over the course of a couple of years, she switched to Kroger. I sit at the table find a movie on my laptop and go to work. I bet you make a lot more than five bucks with your bonus for ME, not you, selling this stuff, huh? Janet,No, I would not sit for 90 minutes, either! When they got to me they said the same thing " your insurance doesn't cover this medicine" that will be 200 dollars! I'm standing there bald from chemo, covered in red spots, holding onto the counter to stop myself from falling over, and they tell me they can't fill my prescription because they have to call the doctor first--on a Friday at 5:30. I'm sure the corporate scumbags are doing just fine! New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. It was a different person that asked me what I needed and I said I wanted to pick up my Rx. They have even called my insurance company when they tried to limit my dose. But the worst thing was she said I could pick up the perscription that night. Not only a new person hired, two new people hired within the month. Come on, what is that? The problem with Walgreens, as with many companies, is that they only care about money. They waste your time telling you that their automated system will call you back (when it doesnt) or finding excuses why their system went down. Id offer a bit of levity about going down, but theyre ugly enough at that location that - like their filled prescriptions - no one gets it. They have never gotten a prescription right! They just lost us as a customer permanently. Also, every call he has to make to a doctor is a pill bottle he isn't filling for someone in line at the counter. Pretty sure that its illegal for your boss to not let people use the restroom when they need to go. What do you do with a company like that? The doctor's office is closed until Monday. They tell him he needs doctor authorization first. Some states allow a small leeway for urgent situations. In the next couple of days I will fill my medication trays and we'll see how they did. Yes, that is so much cheaper. I have to believe that anyone with any influence at Walgreens does not read any of these complaints / complements. It is a complete disaster. I said Id pick it up in the morning. I understand. I've never been granted that when I've asked. I'm in an ungodly amount of pain so I call out and when I come back in the next day my manager wants me to sign a paper for unexcused absences for all the mandatory days I was gone as well as the one day I called off for being in pain. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. It's not the pharmacists fault you have problems with the clinic. http://terribleterribleinstitutions.wordpress.com/. Walgreen's violated my privacy by discussing my business in front of a waiting room full of people. No 2-weeks notice. So keep up with regular appointments. I cannot imagine how older people or less cognizant people ever get help from Walgreens. Wait until Walgreens gets someone in there who hasn't had their major major meds for awhile and they refuse an emergency supply and when they come back and murder everybody in the place, they'll all cry about how senseless it was. Walgreens pharmacy is the laziest, rudist most non professional employees I ever had to deal with. About ten days ago, I tried to get my Flonase refilled. I see that my Walgreens is the exception though. Alice,That was a great deal on the beef. Meanwhile I run out of Paxil. Wow, a nickel. Your go-to for Pharmacy, Health & Wellness and Photo products. I wanted garlic powder and onion powder, but there was no onion powder. If anyone needs an expert on Walgreens let me know. My daughter used to use Walgreens for herself and her kids. This is why Americans ask what the price of something is when IT'S RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF THEM. I am furious over this. I will reiterate the fact I cannot take it. I have given Walgreens many chances over the years, but now I've had it. In ending their contract with Express Scripts, Walgreens faces potential losses of $5.3 billion in annual sales[9]. what if the insurance doesn't pay for it you next fill? Very short. This is a community for Walgreens Stores. Same employees, but now everything royally sucks all the time. But I am also furious because I paid for this medicine (all 10 doses) 10 days ago, and now I see I was cheated out of my money. Walgreens buys the store two months ago. 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