Walgreens

Trust… is it a difficult thing to come by at times? How often do you find yourself calculating about it… especially when it comes to any type of healthcare doctor or medical group. For me when it comes to medicine, and anti-​copay resistance, I resort to WebMD and Walgreens — because I do trust Walgreens. They’ve been around ever since Woolworths was standing in San Francisco a super long time ago. Walgreens has withstood the tests of recessional times.
As much as I try to avoid having to take medicines, some things are out of my control. Walgreens carries a lot of their brand name items comparable to major brand names. I’m testifying that they work, even sometimes better. Like their cold & flu syrup that doesn’t leave my tongue with a weird metallic lingering taste, or doesn’t knock me out to feel sluggish in the morning. (The brand name ones do that to me. I’m a lightweight when it comes to drugs.)
If you didn’t know, Mr. Walgreens was a pharmacist. Since their business has longevity, and is an available presence in our neighborhoods; they’re as important to their clients as we customers are to their existence. This is why I trust Walgreens. They used to be my chocolate crave stop on my afternoon breaks, during the time I worked in San Francisco… still are. Their candy sales are irresistable.
Chocolate and drugs… make it a reason you visit your neighborhood Walgreens…
Nice history read on them —

The poor pharmacy staff running around like crazy. They are significantly understaffed !! The bloodsucker corporate executives should employ more pharmacists and techs as opposed to working the current staff to death

Regular costumer thanks to medical but their drive through is atrocious. I have gone inside and in the drive through. Their pharmacy is understaffed and their retail is over staffed! An hour with three cars in front of me. 20 mins per car way?

Scratch my last good rating. I got home and only had 10 pills of 30 from my prescription. Makes me wonder if the past times had less pills and may be the reason my infection keeps coming back. Never coming back. I recommend checking your prescriptions every time and counting the pills just in case if you come here. For me it is a violation of my trust and I do not want to keep coming here. They did give me the rest when I came back, but it seems like they may do it on purpose. 30 pills wouldn’t even fit in the small bottle they gave me the first time.

I need medicine for my baby is so sick I come come to Walgreens to Riverside this is on Magnolia and La Sierra but is a 8:20 AM in its close employed and and me waiting for somebody come to open the story that is so bad guys I think the manager need bacations need vacations

I’ve never been more frustrated in my whole life than by coming here. 45 – 1 hour waits to just drop
Off or pick up if your lucky. Every one seems to have some problem or issue that comes here. The employees are slow and understaffed. Avoid at all costs.

Normally, I wouldn’t bother reviewing a Walgreens location just because it is what it is. However, I am compelled to warn away any unsuspecting neighbors.
This place is beyond bad. I mean, so bad that it should probably be closed by corporate and reopen later as something else by someone else. They need to scrap this location all together. I was sort of forced to become a customer here because my Vons pharmacy closed and my prescriptions were forwarded to this location and, frankly, I was too lazy to change over to somewhere else. My laziness has come back to bite me in the butt.
The cashiers aren’t bad, but the pharmacy, let’s just say I wouldn’t bet my life on the pharmacy service. i’m not saying that the people do a bad job. it’s just that they rarely staff the pharmacy area well enough for the traffic that goes to the store. You will not get out of there with less than a half hour wait even if your prescriptions are already filled.
My advice is to go down the street to one of the other pharmacies.

Negative stars, I was here two days ago. Let me start this off by saying I am 28 years old, legally handicap from multiple disc related issues for over 8 years and came to this location dressed in business clothes as I am an accountant. This is somewhat relevant as the story progresses. A little personal here, but part of the story — I refill hydrocodone 30 count maybe once every 3 – 4 months, sometimes at Walgreens in different locations including Orange County and Riverside because I live in multiple locations and work in Orange County. I understand the schedule II drug classification and i fully understand the new requirements to fill it. I brought this pharmacist Cathy (middle-​aged Asian woman) my hard copy written prescription signed with two forms of ID, credit card and debit card — hell I even brought my medical card. She refused to fill it. I asked her why — because I know the process and i followed all legal requirements, she said «it’s Walgreens policy.» I asked her to see that policy and she said no, multiple times. This went on for 15 minutes before a woman in line told me the same thing happened to her with the same pharmacist. I can’t articulate how significant of an issue this is. Fortunately I have leftover medication, but regardless there are serious consequences preventing someone with severe pain from taking the medicine their physician prescribes to them. She deserves to be fired, stripped of whatever license she may have, barred from working as a pharmacist and if I can sue her and her entire livelihood i would. She was rude, disrespectful (as she implied I was a drug dealer using multiple prescriptions to fill them at different locations) uncooperative and legitimately clueless. She was lost, uninformed and an a whole bunch of negative words that come to your mind as you read this. Mind-​boggling.

Even though Target is cheaper and just down the block from me, this Walgreens is pretty convenient. We started going here just to get photos printed to decorate our new house, but we’ve found ourselves coming back for other household items. The service is so beyond friendly! The employees greet you and offer assistance, which isn’t something we always get at Target. Some of the items are more expensive than they need to be, but their rewards card usually brings it back down to the price of Target, more or less.
I definitely recommend their rewards card. Aside from accumulating points (to be used like cash) from your purchases or buying certain items, they also offer an app that gives you points! If you’re using an app to walk/​bike/​run, you can plug it into the Walgreens app and they give you points for working out! If you’re already exercising, you might as well get paid for it! They also offer points for logging your weight, blood pressure or blood sugar.

I made a card online for Father’s Day to come pick up. Aris said my card wasn’t ready and to wait (although it was past it’s pick up time) so I did. An hour later I’m still waiting and the manager says the machine is down (could have told me this an hour ago). Then he calls me two hours later to say the card is ready. When I come to pick it up I’m given a card with a random couple on it and an obviously personal message for someone else. I’m now told they lost my card and it’s not in the system anymore… the end. Incompetent staff and manager.

This is thee worst pharmacy I’ve ever been to. I have given it numerous tries, over a handful. Every single time, the wait is unbelievably long. They are way understaffed, and are obviously not going to do anything about it. I will now be taking my business elsewhere, probably Target.

I’ve been picking up my prescription from this Walgreens for years, never an issue, always a pleasant experience. I think there was once or twice where I came during lunch and there wasn’t enough staff but that’s understandable.

Stopped in for some flu meds. Only 2 cashiers. Very slow by the way. Manager must have been called 5 times for back up! By far the worst Walgreens I ever been to. Would not recommend coming here to pick up meds. U might die in line. Terrible all the way around!

Worst pharmacy everrrr!!! Slowwww people!!! Long lines!!! 1hr. in line to pick up perscription!!! Never ever ever will I come here againnnn!!! Total time 2hrs.

The only thing this Walgreens pharmacy was successful at was frustrating me beyond any level of frustrated I ever thought possible. I waited in the drive-​thru line locked between 2 cars ahead of me and, eventually 4 behind. I understand that sometimes it is busy, but I waited behind these TWO cars for FORTY-​FIVE minutes! When I finally got to the front of the line I was told, by a rude woman, that no matter what medication, (which was a simple antibiotic for children), the wait was at least 2 hours if I decided to wait!!! Never again!

The pharmacy at this Walgreens is the worst I’ve ever been to they take forever for everything. They tell you that your prescriptions ready and then when you get there they tell you that it’s not ready and that it’s going to be another 20 minutes or so which always turns into longer. If you can avoid using this pharmacy I suggest you do.

If I could I would give –1. After standing in line for 30 mins they told me I have to wait 2 hrs for my med. I have never seen a place so under stuff and low customer service. Never ever going back here again.

Plain horrible, drop off my prescription for only 2 meds, they told me it would ONLY take 15−20minutes… Been here for almost an hour and NOTHiNG! & no it wasn’t busy either I was the only one sitting there waiting. From now on I will stick to CVS.

Im officially done with walgreens. I cant tell you how many times ive put my perscription in and had me wait a couple hours then realize they arent contacting me to drive all the way down there and them say «oh we dont have your medicine in stock» or «we cant fill it because its one day early». Really? Oh wow one day, i might become an addict! They are just all incompetent. They have 1 tech and 1 pharmacists so they are ALWAYS backed up and you have to wait at least 30 mins in line which is what im doing now. Im going to a mom and pop next time. Save yourself the trouble!

This is solely for their pharmacy. It is absolutely terrible. I got a call from them asking to talk to my one year old regarding his prescription. They have his date of birth, yet they couldn’t figure out that he’s absolutely too young to talk, let alone decide on his behalf.
Another instance was when they called us to pick up his prescription. When we went to pick it up, they said they filled the wrong medicine. Just terrible.