Walgreens

This place can really improve upon their service. Whenever I come here there is always a line. I guess you have to be smart about where you pay though. You can pay at the cosmetics or the back counter (for film development).
The pharmacy is actually pretty helpful when you need some tips based on their professional knowledge.
I recalled an uneventful experience when I walked in before going to campus (around 10am). The staff stopped me to tell me I’m not welcomed in here without an adult or guardian. I had my book bag and probably looked like a high-​schooler??? I was basically given a hard time just for a quick snack. They might have good intentions but the approach can definitely improve. Stereotypes die hard…
This builds from the history that a neighboring high school had students creating the trend to meet up at the Walgreens to change from their uniform to street clothes and ditch school.
Customers who walk in with big bags are asked to place them behind the counter by the carts…

Maybe it was the fact that we strolled in to make a purchase at around 4pm on a lazy Sunday afternoon, but the staff here were relaxed pretty much to a fault.
The store itself has a similar layout as other Walgreens that I’ve been to, and luckily this one was carrying the contact lens solution that my girl was in dire need of purchasing. It was a quick trip in, a quick trip to the product we wanted to purchase, and a quick trip to the cashier area.
That’s when things went awry.
From what I recall, there were three or four employees spread out among the two register stations. One was at the left register, assisting the only other customer in the store besides us. A second employee was standing behind that cashier, chatting about things he had done so far that weekend. A third employee was at the right register, which was open and she was possibly counting it, or checking it, but insisted it wasn’t open. The fourth employee was hanging out a few feet behind everyone, laughing about the conversation going on. After about 2 minutes of the only other customer still fumbling around with his transaction, a fifth employee came through the doors and more raucous laughter was abound as he was late coming in for work, and it was funny to them because there was obviously little work to be done.
It was quite the odd sight during the 4 minutes we were standing there. (That’s right, it took four whole minutes for the cashier to scan the items, convey the price, have the customer rifle through a wallet looking for money, handing that money over, having that money counted and being given change and a receipt an d getting his purchases bagged up.) In due time, we were rung up and a speedy exit was our goal after paying.
This place seemed like a veritable «chicken or the egg» conundrum; I can’t figure out if the place was so freakin’ empty because the staff was so lackadaisical and unprofessional, or the staff was so lackadaisical and unprofessional because the place was so freakin’ empty.
The only way to find out is to stage a large group of customers to bust into this place for a scientific experiment to see if they shape up when it’s «go time» or not. Until then, it’s a regular Walgreens that happened to be void of customers and teeming with guffawing employees on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Take it at that and see what you find.