Walgreens

I have yet to have a good experience at the pharmacy here and I’ve been more than 5 times. They’re slow, they never have anything ready no matter if I call or try and do it online, and they have told me (through text) a prescription is ready when it actually was not. Go somewhere else unless you like sitting around waiting. I keep wondering if it’s a ploy to get me to shop around and buy something I don’t need. The one nice thing is how nice the staff is. They’re very friendly, helpful and knowledgable.

Bad customer service from a customer management perspective. How do you have one person working the pharmacy counter and window at the same time? Doesn’t seem like best business practice! Person working is nice and helpful though;)

I have to admit, I love Walgreens! If I could do all of my shopping here, I totally would!
This particular Walgreens has friendly, helpful employees.
I moved my prescriptions to Target because they are cheaper, the pharmacist still answers questions.
The only thing that would make this store better would be to be open 24 hours and to have the grocery store in it like some of the Walgreens in the area have.

Went to the clinic originally for a sinus infection, the lovely NP (young) spent a long time with me and sent me home with an antibiotic. When the antibiotic finished, I got sick again 3 days later. I immediately went back to the clinic thinking the first antibiotic just didn’t kick the original sinus infection to the curb. I saw the other NP (older) who told me that I had allergies. I argued with her that I had never had allergies a day in my life, and that it was unlikely since I was sick immediately after the antibiotics stopped. She sent me home with a nasal spray and allergy pills. 2 weeks later I went to a REAL doctor and was diagnosed with pneumonia. I’ve never had a healthcare experience this poor in my life. I will NOT go back to this clinic and I encourage everyone else to steer clear too.

Went here for the health clinic, but the doc steps out at around 1pm. They don’t tell you that when you call the automated answering system. So I had to turn the car around, not impressed. The store itself also doesn’t look clean. The pharmacy section looks messy and the sign in computer system was old.
End of story, I looked up a CVS Minute Clinic within 5 miles instead which seems to be more cleaner and has a better system going on.

On the days when I can’t scrounge up a breakfast or really need an afternoon pick-​me-​up I like stopping here. Mostly because it is the closest store to my office and it is a reliable source of caffeine and candy. It’s also right on the way to our other building and sometimes that drive just deserves a reward like a Snicker’s bar. Am I right? Don’t question me.
This store opens at 7 am and since I’m hardly ever at work before then it always open when I need it. Walgreens doesn’t have the largest selection but I can always count on them to have Arizona iced tea in the large cans. And usually they are on sale. The food selection isn’t always great and the prices are a little inflated but I usually can find something on sale.
The cashiers are always friendly and I’ve never had to wait. And I would highly recommend signing up for their rewards card. I’ve already gotten enough points to get $ 5 off and I don’t shop there that often.

Coming to this Walgreens has officially become an annual thing for me.
Every year around the February 18^th I find myself doing the haul to Island Lake, Illinois to attend the birthday party of my cousin’s once 2, then 3, now 4 year-​old daughter, who is, of course, a peach, and deserving of many gifts.
So anyway, my cousin and I are less than two months apart in age, she being just a hair older. We grew up together, had the best sleepovers, jokes, drives for no reason, adventures and more. We’re both pretty similar people, but also very, VERY different and I wouldn’t say that our families ever compared the two of us, the I did constantly hear at my house that J had gotten all ‘A’s’, and our Grandmother would always have to make some sort of comparison between which of us was skinnier, taller, had bigger boobs… you know, the usual weird grandma stuff, and on my cousin’s wedding day, where I was a bridesmaid, my Dad (whose brother is my cousin’s father) gave her a congratulatory hug, told her how beautiful she looked and said something along the lines of, ‘If only I could have a daughter like that’… or something to that effect while I was sitting right next to her. It sounds crueler than it actually was as that’s the just the dark humor my Dad has. My part of the ‘G’ family isn’t known for having particularly warm or emotional hearts and our sense of humor is, well, not understood by many.
So anyway… we’re all grown up now. She won the title of tallest, thinnest, most beautiful, but I did end up taking the bigger boob title, and I’m okay with that. I’m not one for commitment having had a nearly decade-​long relationship where even moving in together was a ‘never going to happen’ or ‘maybe in the next decade’ scenario, I’m not fan of children and never want my any of my own and marriage, well, yeahhhh, it’s probably not for me either… plus, I’m broke. She, on the other hand, has been married for almost decade now, finishing up nursing school, owns a house and just gave birth to her second and third children (a set of twin boys) last April. Basically, she’s got responsibility on lock and I have three cats and work «on the internet», as my grandmother calls it.
What does all this have to do with one Walgreens in Lake Zurich? Well, for the past 3 years I’ve gone to this children’s birthday party out in Island Lake and of course, I was running late every.single.time because I just can’t manage to get my sh*t together and totally forgot either a card, any kind of gift wrap, or both and this en-​route Walgreens has totally saved my ass so I don’t look like the total failure grandchild in front of my Grandmother. the first year I needed a card, the second I needed a gift bag and tissue paper (of which the sell in a pre-​made set for WAY easy gifting, and this year I made the mistake of buying a gift that came in absolutely enormous box that was pretty much too big for even a hefty bag to act as a present-​disguiser, so I had to buy not only wrapping paper but also tape and scissors and attempt to wrap the car in the passenger seat as my children’s party accomplice drove pedal-​to-​the-​metal to the destination.
In addition to saving my ass, their customer service is friendly, they make appropriately-​length-​ed eye-​contact, the girl at the register was absolutely beautiful and they sell booze… which is much appreciated being the degenerate grandchild that I’ve turned out to be.