Shoppers Drug Mart

This new location has recently completed a minor renovation that accommodates a fresh meat, produce and food selection which reflects a mini version of what you can find at Loblaws. The prices are very competitive and, like the pre-​existing food items prior to renovation, the sale prices on selected items can provide deep discounts, often more than 50% off the regular price.
The staff is friendly, informative and helpful and your are normally greeted with a cheery hello as you walk in the door. The store is bright and well laid out and the sale items are clearly identified.
The Shoppers Optimum reward program is one of the best loyalty programs out there and if you shop smart and take advantage of the phone app and the various additional bonuses, it doesn’t take long before you’ve accumulated free stuff. Also, the senior’s discount every Thursday is a generous 20%.
This location offers a pleasant and rewarding shopping experience and is easy on the budget.

New location, bigger aisles & selection of items, making this Shoppers more in synch with the look and layout of the other locations. Interestingly enough, despite the obvious upgrade in relation to 2050 Queen E. I find this new location to be a tad ‘colder’ and with a weird layout, especially the checkout cashiers. Since the place has been opened for only a short time, let’s give them some time and see whether these small details will be changed and improved. Update to follow in a couple of months!

I have gone to Shoppers Drug Mart in the beaches and each time I have gone to Pharmacy I had a bad experience, I keep trying hoping they were just having a bad day but after the 4^th or 5^th time I will never go back. The Pharmacy staff are not friendly (the cashiers at the front are always smiling and friendly) but pharmacy staff provide zero patient care. They did not ask me anything about my previous medications, what I am taking, if I have any allergies (and I have a severe allergy) and if I was even pregnant which I clearly was showing. When I went to pick up my medication the cashier just handed it to me without providing me any information on the new medication. Most importantly, without providing me any medication, there was not even a sticker on the bottle indicating it must be consumed on an empty stomach and no grapefruit no warnings, nothing spoken to me, just handed it to me. I had to do research myself when I got home since they did not provide me any information. I felt I was at McDonald’s getting fast food, not a drug store where a medication can kill me. The Ontario College of Pharmacists should pay close attention to this store. I thought patient intake or when they hand you your medication they are suppose to ask you questions and inform you, or has the laws changed recently?
Not to mention the newly renovated Shoppers Drug Mart (same store, just moved a few blocks west) is not AODA compliant and does not meet building code, if you are in a wheelchair you cannot even get down the aisles. I went with my neighbour and she had to leave since her wheelchair would not permit her to go up the first aisle this is unacceptable for a pharmacy. The aisles are filled with stands in the middle of the aisle impeding even able body people. How can a store open and a drug store to boot and not be compliant to building code? For this reason, I am never going back to a store I cannot even get down an aisle. So many people in the beaches are complaining about this especially those with strollers, walkers, scooters or wheelchairs you cannot get down an aisles. Complaints have been raised to the manager but nothing has been done yet. Hoping someone from head office pays a visit and tries walking down each aisle and put yourself in someones shoes. Get a measuring tape out and measure, each aisle is clearly different widths and each aisle gets smaller and smaller as you go east, who designed this? The architect should have caught this error especially if it does not meet code. Even strollers cannot get by, it is not right for a brand new store not to meet AODA compliance. A helpful hint is if you walk sideways and shimmy and try not to hit all the structures they placed in the middle you may be able to squeeze by but only if nobody happens to be in the aisle. If there is, you will have to wait. I have been in this store 5 times since and each time I hear numerous complaints from other customers about this but nothing is being corrected, they just keep adding more crap in stands in the middle of aisles.
There are plenty of other independent drug stores in the area where the pharmacists takes the time to explain your medication to you as well as asks you questions about what you are presently taking and treats you like a patient not number and you can actually fit down the aisle.

Standard shoppers. Friendly service and conveniently located for people living in the heart of beaches.

I can find most anything I want at shoppers and I admit that I don’t go to other drugstores because I love Shoppers Optimum Rewards Program it is really useful. I never had any issue with this store, staff are friendly and helpful.

This place should be an embarrassment to the chain, and is in dire need of a reno, starting with the floor and ceiling. It’s actually shocking, when compared to almost every other SDM.