Walgreens

Ok i saw the reviews and had to provide a little hope. I live a block away so the convenience factor is enormous. Its open 24 hours which is a plus. Understaffed is very accurate but the staff they do have are very friendly, courteous, and knowledgeable on different product recommendations.
The prices are ridiculous but just sign up for a Walgreens card and you’re fine. For example, i got the $ 9 tide cold water detergent for $ 5. I got $ 5 halls for $ 2… Trust me, don’t come here to get a lot of stuff, just one item every now and then when the regular grocery stores are a hassle due to traffic or distance… Who wants to cross town for a gallon of milk? Who wants to wait in a long line for a box of cereal? Who wants to drive in Aventura’s all day rush hour for a bag of chips? I mean it can get pretty ridiculous, i timed it one day — took me 5 mins to walk but 30 minutes to drive round-​trip.

The pharmacy is such a pain to deal with. They will screw up the copays, invariably, then deny it; sometimes they tell me my family does not have insurance at all while I’m holding the health insurance card in their face; they misspell my kids’ names then claim they are not insured; sometimes, there is just bad attitude. Yadyadayada.
It’s really annoying when you (or your kids) are sick and you need prescription relief. I only go if Publix’s pharmacy is closed (they have short hours).
Plus, the later it gets the stranger the customers become.

Giving this place 1 star is generous. Walgreens in general is over priced and this one is no different. Their pharmacy is the worst of any that I have been to. If you are in line in the store to pick up a rx u are 10 people deep at all times. If you go to the drive through its the same thing only u will butn a half a tank of gas while the person in front of you is taking out a loan or just staring at an empty window for atleast 20 minutes. Yes 20 minutes I have timed it. My advice is to go to CVS it is much faster and I have yet to wait either in the store or at the window for more than 5 minutes.

Ridiculously slow pharmacy service in the store and the drive-​thru. They seem perpetually understaffed for a pharmacy in a densely-​populated neighborhood full of geriatrics and high-​rises. Every interaction feels like you’re working with a new employee on their first day.

Over charged & worst customer service ever. Manager Arlene needs to be fired!!! Very rude and totally incompetent! Hello Walgreens do u screen ur employees at all!!! Unbelievable!

So I’m giving them 2 stars instead of 1 since they are open 24 hours. Other than that there isn’t much else good to say. They are notoriously understaffed and it doesn’t help that most of their customers are cranky impatient Aventura residents. The Aventura effect (which is not Walgreen’s fault) also has a tendency to make parking frustrating too since a lot of these people feel like they can just park their car anywhere as long as someone is in the passenger seat.
Their prices are on par with every other Walgreens being consistently overpriced.
I do enjoy being able to pay the few extra bucks if I wake up sick at 3am and need something like NyQuil to help me get back to sleep.

Do not try to use the pharmacy here! The worst pharmacy I have ever visited hands down.

One of the WORST in terms of service/​wait times at the pharmacy. On more than three occasions now, I’ve found myself parked in line at the drive thru pharmacy for over 35 minutes, with maybe a whole 3 – 4 cars ahead of me. Ridiculous. Frustrating. Lines at the register inside are equally bad. I only come here because they are of the few that always have my script in stock. Staffing and scheduling person: get it together!!!

Absolutely one of the worst Walgreens pharmacies! Makes me wonder what kind of an education one must have in order to work here. The staff cannot read to save their life, constantly gets medications wrong, the pharmacists are rude, the lines always long. Avoid this place if possible.

typical walgreens… has drive through pharmacy.

I have been like 45 minutes in line with no one in front to get a test strip for a blood glucose monitor… If you Come to this Walgreens, stay away from the farmacy

Basically this is your typical Walgreens, but with way more lines and people. I’ve been a couple times lately when I was sick/​had the flu. This is definitely not the place to go to, if you want a quick in and out trip when feeling gross. The lines were long in both the pharmacy and the check-​out. I actually tried to go to the pharmacy to pick-​up sudafed since it is not on the floor for sale, but gave up after 20 minutes in line. Luckily I found an alternative item that worked just as well. This store is well organized and clean, just the only downfall is the lines. Each time I’ve been it has taken about 15 minutes to actually get through the line at the check-​out due to so many people.

This is the worst Walgreens EVER!!!
The Pharmacy is a total mess!
Long lines, lost medications, un-​knowledgable staff and management!
They have a drive thru lane, that can take up to 45 mins!
It’s a drive thru! How hard can it be!
You drive up, drop off or pickup a prescription!
If there’s a problem or issue, ask the customer to either go inside, or drive by later…
Yet, this method escapes the staff!
I’m amazed they are still in business!

The wait in the pharmacy line can be maddening. I thought there would be less of a wait on a Saturday evening. Wrong! There were eight people in line and only one clerk!
Rather than only allowing pharmacy sales in the pharmacy, they allow people to check with their ENTIRE shopping basket, which creates tremendous bottlenecks because the pharmacy is so understaffed.
If Walgreens wants to offer full service for customers to check out everything in the pharmacy, then they need to be staffed for it, which is hard to do because they only have three check-​out windows in the pharmacy.
If you want fast service, go elsewhere!

The store is very good with a lot of things that I need everyday. It’s convenient to get to and the staff is helpful. The wait for the pharmacy is a little too long, but all in all they are good.

This Walgreens is very organized and open during convenient hours. The reason I am not giving them a 5 is because the bathroom here tends to be dirty, but I guess that same comment can be applied to all other Walgreens.

The customer service here is bad. There is a bruntette girl in the back in the photo that has a bad attitude. She says «don’t hold up my line». I wanted to slap her in her face. Cant wait to get out of Miami and away from the horrible customer service.

This is the funniest Walgreens I have ever been to, even exceeding the one at Young Circle. If you wan’t to see examples of the full range of mental illnesses involving narcissism, I can’t think of a better place to do so. After all, this is Dennis Rodman’s Walgreens of choice, and you will often spot him here at 3 in the morning buying ice and proudly exclaiming «I’m Dennis Rodman» while starting problems with the already-​frictional Miami population. Oh, and this Walgreens is better stocked then the one by Aventura Blvd if you came looking to buy something, and I guess the staff is OK for South Florida, if sometimes a little spaced out.

To review a big corporate entity like Walgreens, you must take into consideration that they are exactly that… Big corporate conglomerates who will bleed Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class dry and eat your firstborn child.
Seriously, I’m not anti-​capatailist or anything like that but if given the choice between Walgreens and Pop’s Drug Store, I will go to Pop’s every single time without hesitation… even if it’s out of my way.
With that being said, this particular Walgreens is really nice… at least nicer than 90% of the Walgreens I’ve visited and probably the nicest in all of south Florida.
The place is always clean, well stocked and the customer service is above average for a business in the 305… especially in Aven-​torture!
My place, Pop’s, doesn’t stay open ²⁴⁄₇ so this Walgreens does come in handy for me at 3am sometimes.
Tip: If you want to see some funny shiz’nit, you can only do this once a year. Every February 14^th between the hours of 9pm — midnight, watch scores of douchebag men literally RUN into this store to buy their significant other a crappy Valentines Day gift, which obviously they had forgotten or else they wouldn’t be getting it at Walgreens to begin with. I’ve shared many a laugh on that day and sit back and wonder if these poor significant others back at home realize just how cheap their man is! Ahhhh, it’s the stupid/​simple things in life that make me smile. :)

Large, airy, and generally clean. Easy in and out, although a recent road renovation has made that a little harder. Has a drive thru pharmacy.