Walgreens

I bought a lobster here. It was pretty cheap and VERY filling.

I only made one mistake when I moved to Portland: I chose the wrong pharmacist. For close to a year I whined about how horrible they were. For example… every single time I ever went to get a prescription I was told I would have to wait anywhere from two hours to two days to pick it up. I started calling before going in — which they told me to do for a more efficient process — but they’d still take at least two hours (when they remembered they had talked to me at all, that is) to put it together when I’d get there.
It was a total charlie-​foxtrot, if you know what I mean.
At a health fair at the Maine Mall a couple months back, Walgreens was there with a pretty sweet deal: for every prescription you moved to them, you’d get $ 25 in Walgreens cash. So I asked: «Do you guys have an automated system where a robot lady will call and let me know when I have stuff to pick up?» (another service my previous pharmacy didn’t have). The lady reassured me that I did and also promised, «We will never make you chase US around to get YOUR prescription filled.»
And they never have.
I immediately moved my business to Walgreens and haven’t looked back. I never have to wait longer than ten minutes to get my prescriptions, I never have to call and beg them to put my order together (and then hope that they actually follow through), they are respectful of privacy, they don’t act as if every question I have is bothering them or taking up their time, and if I pick up my prescription a few days late — well, it’s still there waiting for me when I do show up (my previous pharmacist would put the drugs back into their system if I was even an hour past the window they gave me — which again varied from two hours to two days; talk about a constant crapshoot with those people).
I know that pharmacies aren’t necessarily the sexiest or coolest things in the world to a) talk about or b) go to, but everybody needs them. And THIS is the place in town that’s going to keep you sane and healthy so you can go do all those sexy, cool things you want to do!

Cookie cutter drug store.
That said, if you can’t find a medicine you need here, you’re probably in need of a black market.
Also, only 1 out of 10 people here get the concept of ‘one line’. The manager should put up a sign. Easy idea, but a lot of people just don’t get it.