Walgreens

I usually come here for the Pharmacy which always have great staff and theyre very knowledgeable. When I do buy other items the service is ok however there is always a line so maybe more cashiers are needed.

Be prepared to wait a very long time. Staff are nice enough but there is nowhere near enough of them. Massive wait, always.
I fill at the Rite Aid in my office most of the time now because this place (by my home) just takes way too long.

Not only they are understaffed, these people are always late. The store is supposed to be open at 8 and there’s no one there at that time. Gates down, doors closed, pitch black.

It always smells like someone took a dump in aisle 2! And… the lines are usually pretty bad. I feel bad for the people that have to work in a giant toilet.

It’s an ok location, but a lot of high-​endish merchandise they usually have in other stores is not present in this location.
Pharmacy is great, and Pharmacy staff is friendly. However, Be Aware that the Pharmacy closes SUPER early on weekends.

It’s a Walgreen’s. Is it charming? No. It’s a chain drugstore. It is, however convenient as Hell, so it’s a good thing to have in the neighborhood. Particularly since there’s a dearth of grocery stores serving the area (with a Key Food on Myrtle to open in September, and a Wegman’s in the Navy Yard in 2017), it’s useful to have a spot like this to pick up sundry items.
I’ve been a bit disappointed by their pharmacy. I have a sick family member who needs a lot of persecution medication, and Walgreen’s usually doesn’t have what we need in stock. The folks working the counter are nice and helpful, but they just don’t have the medication we need, which I can easily procure elsewhere.
There’s often a line, especially after work, and all of the registers are never manned. The people who work there are nice and friendly. As many others have pointed out, it sometimes smells like sewage.
One last item to note, is that Walgreen’s can attract some shady people. Shoplifting is apparently a big problem for them, and I once saw a nervous looking teenager try to buy 20 Applebee’s gift cards with a credit card he was having trouble with, before giving up and running out of the store. It’s pretty obvious the kid was just trying to get as much value out a stolen card before it got cancelled.

The staff are pleasant but slow and the place reeks of spoiled milk or an old diaper. I have to stop going. It convenient to my house but I always forget about the smell until I pass through the doors. It’s just this side of vomit-​inducing. The first few times I wrote it off to thinking it was the day before cleaning or they had some spoiled milk. This time I asked the clerk about it and he said that the while building had a plumbing problem. That’s not so reassuring as the building is only a few years old. I can’t stand to spend time in there and get out as fast as I can. This smell cannot be good for their sales numbers.

Am standing in line now at the pharmacy, 4 people in front of me, 3 people behind and as usual they have 1 really chatty and helpful person serving, coping as well as she can.

This place literally always smells like a diaper. But the people who work in the pharmacy are always really nice.

It was a dark day in Fort Greene. The kind of day where he wished he had just stayed in bed, but he needed Immodium so he ventured to Walgreens on Myrtle Ave.
Unfortunately for our story’s protagonist, he didn’t make it to the Immodium aisle. He made it as far as the first aisle when he suddenly shit his pants. Feeling the weight of the defeat. He grabbed the nearest luffa, and used it to smear his own feces all over the entire store.
Okay, so maybe that’s not true. But that’s what this place smells like. Every. Single. Day.
I don’t know if a sewage line broke underneath, if someone who works there is actually shitting their pants or what, but figure it the hell out.
If you need a specialty prescription, expect that it will take 7 – 9 business days to arrive (obviously GREAT if it’s a medication you really need) when every mom and pop pharmacy in the neighborhood can get it in 1 – 2.
Also, watching an employee knock into the gift card display the other day and then proclaim to everyone in line «I’m not picking that shit up» was awesome.
Just keep walking over those gift cards people, keep on walking. Walk right out the door and treat yourself to some fresh air…

Sure the lines are sometimes a problem but I’d say over the past 6 months, they have fixed the problem on those busy days.
The pharmacy techs are awesome.
The staff has never been rude to me in my 5 years living in the neighborhood.

Your time will be saved by patronizing the food market down the block or go to Target at Atlantic Mall.
Soap simple bar soap and other typical essentials — shampoo are behind lock and key. To obtain bar soap you have to bother a usually disgruntled employee… and takes forever to find someone to open it.
Seriously Bar soap?
I avoid going to this store at all costs, if its available at the organic market next door or I will purchase my bar soap there or trek down to Target.
Pet Pharmacy Stickers cover everything.

Just convenient. The workers constantly disappear into little corners. There normally is a line if a real manager is not present to regulate the minimum wagers.
Hey, it’s the closest thing we have to Duane Reade and I can still use my reward points. The workers constantly size you up as if you are invading their space? Oh I’m sorry, did patronage disturb your tweets?
Hopefully, the wave of gentrification will wash over this location and they will get their act together.

This review is for Induana (sp?) the woman working at the pharmacy. 5 stars for professionalism, friendliness, and expediency. She even got me a generic medication which saved me like 20 bucks. Unsolicited. I’m just disappointed in myself for forgetting to fill out the Walgreens survey (it dies after 72hrs). Anyway, if you get Induana helping you, your hope in humanity may very well be restored.

Not the most terrible drug store I’ve been in in NYC, but that isn’t saying much. It would be good if they cleaned up a bit and cut down on the long lines.
My biggest gripe is the stupid lock boxes on random products. I’m not sure how they decide what products to put in the lockboxes, but it seems completely arbitrary — cheap soap in a lock box while another expensive product is out for anyone to pick up.

I live right across the street, popping in for something at Walgreens takes a solid half an hour most of the time. They really need more people on register to deal with the lines. They have more people on staff at the suburban Walgreens in my parents’ town.
It’s also pretty disorganized, whoever drafted the floor plan for this Walgreens really should be put in the shame cube. The staff are nice enough, disinterested but nice. I’ve yet to use the pharmacy here.
Honestly though, I really doubt I’d find a better pharmacy experience in NYC. Even the nice looking stores are missing stock in basics like bandaids yet have 3 full snack isles for whatever god forsaken reason.

Went in to procure an emergency iPad charger. Behind the counter were two salespeople, I asked the male creature if he wouldn’t mind getting me one if the iPad chargers and pointed to the one I wanted. Female waste-​o-​space interjected with «we don’t have any chargers for iPads here!!!». When I inquired again about the iPad charger in the box that stated «works with iPad» she protested with a grime cautionary tale of «a woman bought one of those and specifically said it doesn’t work with her iPad». I thought it over and being the risk taker I am, proclaimed that I would like to buy it anyway and hoped it would work. The male gremlin then said «you think it’ll work because you are special?». I responded, «well since its an iPad charger I need and this item is labeled as an iPad charger, who knows!?»
Long story short I’m writing this review on my ipad which is fully charged from my magical charger.
I was going to call and complain to the manager but I realized he’s probably as useless as the rest of the staff in this shithole.
The pharmacist however is super cool and always willing to help out. regardless, I am never going back, unless it’s to watch a wrecking ball demolish this establishment filled with other worldly types of dickheads.
P. s. thanks for the iPad charger works great!!!

Long lines and rude staff… enough to make to make me turn around and take my business elsewhere.
No thanks!

The selection is decent, but there is always a ridiculous line here. I’ve had to leave the line and my items behind and head back to work on more than one occasion. There are better Walgreens out there, for sure.

Bring a book, because you’ll be waiting a while.
I actually called the customer service number tonight after 1.5 years of bad service. In summary, it’s not a clean store that is well stocked except that what you want is often locked up and you will have to wait a long time to get service to assist you — and then you’ll wait longer to check out. Let’s break it down:
Floor service: In general the staff are disinterested in providing service. (I think this is a management issue.) If you press the call button to have a shelf unlocked you can expect to wait 5 minutes. At times I have waited up to 10. Today I waited for 5 and then tracked down an employee.
Checkout: Frequently there will be only one cashier despite a line of 7+ people. If they call for assistance, it will take quite some time for another staff to open up the register. I don’t know what the protocol is, but it seems logical to me that with a long line you would open up the 2^nd register next to the first, to better assist those who have been waiting longest. Instead, I often see them open the Photo checkout at the back of the line — which is simply frustrating. Also, the checkout counter is often littered with leftover items, plastic bags or other detritus.
Store stocking: The shelves do contain most of the items you’re looking for. However, many shelves are locked — see Floor Service. I do not believe staff clean up the shelves regularly, as I often see misplaced items and disorganized shelves.
Store cleanliness: It isn’t. I won’t go so far as to say that it is dirty, but it is not clean. I would rather be in a Duane Reade any day.
Recommendation: I wish the store would hire a better manager and train/​motivate their staff to maintain cleanliness and improve service. While I live above this store I do more than 70% of my pharmacy shopping online or at the Duane Reade near my office. I do my best to avoid shopping here. I will say that i have never had an issue with the Pharmacy, as others say that they have.