Walgreens

Good Walgreens; cool location and decent stock. I like it because there’s a cool & sweet cashier named Kendall. I sort of have a crush on her, she’s fun. She reminds me of Amanda Seyfried in a way. Con wise, this store is dirty and there’s a lot of bums loitering around stinking up the place.

Be weary of the pharmacy, go in knowing what you are suppose to get and how much you expect to pay or they will default to the expensive brand. When I asked if this price was too high they just mentioned it was that way because it was a brand name. After asking again and saying I expected it to be a $ 0 co-​pay they said oh ya that one you got last time has a $ 0 co-​pay. Do you want that one?
Um yes I would like the one that I got last time and is free. Saved myself $ 60.
This has happened numerous times.

Honestly the best thing about this place is the people that work there. They always go the extra mile for me when I need to special order an item each week. They do deal with a lot of shit at this location with all the crazy people.

Five stars to this Walgreens, specifically one of the male cashiers working here around 4:50pm this afternoon. I had just gouged my finger on my umbrella (it or I was too strong) while closing it and my finger started bleeding kinda bad and I realized: I need to get a bandaid. Luckily I literally was across the street from this Walgreens, which clearly labeled where to get first aid and had a huge array of bandages etc., so it was easy to grab a box and go pay for it. The cashier saw that I was bleeding and offered to open up a bandaid for me and totally helped me out far and above basic customer service. Thanks a billion, bro!
So yeah, ⁵⁄₅ stars, would gladly go in here to get something to stop sudden bleeding again!

I have been going to this pharmacy for 15 years. Recently I had some problems with a prescription and Marife Sue made sure it got fixed! Thank you for caring and the extra effort you make!

Went to walgreens to grab some snacks to munch on during break time. I bought the 2/​$ 3 Bento cuttlefish snack. After I got to work, I shared the snack with my coworkers and when we opened the pack, everything was stuck together like it was superglued. I figured it’s probably the way it is because of the sauce.
After awhile, we decided to look at the expiration date because we felt it’s not right. Pictured is the expiration date. COVERED by the nutritional facts. I would think since walgreens is such a large corporation, that they would at least check expiration dates on their products. My snack has been expired for over a year and a half. thanks Walgreens. I will never come back to this location.

Top notch Walgreens as this is how I see it.
The employees here make the store what it is, amazing. I have always had great customer service here anytime I need help. Other times, I see other customers get supported. The employees actually walk with the customer to the aisle and show them the items instead of just telling them where it is. Furthermore, there are some interesting characters who enter this store, and the employees handle these interesting situations with professionalism and courtesy. I always will choose this Walgreens first before going to another one.

Terrible, terrible pharmacy. The staff here are all dolts whose jobs could be done by a McDonalds skeleton crew (and I’m sure the McDonalds people would appreciate that pay for that laxed level of urgency). I was told to come pick up my medication in an hour – which is already long enough. So I come back in an hour… and they tell me to wait another hour!
How long can it take? Why are these employees at this particular Walgreens so f**** stupid? Room temperature IQs must be the explanation – that or pure evil. Either way, they should shut down this pharmacy and rehire the whole staff over again. I’m NEVER EVER coming to this pharmacy again, so long as I can help it. Hell, even Divisadero on their lunch hour was a much better pharmacy, and they’re one of the busiest in the entire city!
I would give this location zero stars if I could – I saw them telling infirm, obviously disabled patients to ‘come back in an hour’ after they’ve already been waiting for just as long.
Terrible, terrible place. I seriously hope that the entire staff gets fired.
Otherwise, it’s a pretty average SoMa/​Tenderloin/​Civic Center Walgreens.

The worst pharmacy in the city. They are either out of stock, or your order is not ready or the line is so long.
No sense of urgency. Really bad customer service and very short staffed all the time.

It’s very nice that a Walgreen’s store is here. The service is good and staff members are very friendly. This location does look clean and spacious — also a good thing.
From time to time, there tends to be random people in front begging for spare change. This is something anyone would see when walking on Market St.
Meiji and Pocky snack sticks are in stock. Green Tea and Strawberry Flavored Kit Kat Packets are also available. Definitely double bonus points for carrying these items in their inventory.
— They do take passport photos as well.
If you need passport photos for any reason, then Walgreen’s got you covered.
— Have a CD ROM or a flash drive with photos to review before developing them into individual prints?
There are three machines for this.
Passport photos and 1-​hour photo development available? Definitely a plus for consumers!
— Acceptable forms of payment: Cash, Credit and Debit
— Price Range: $ — $$
— Parking: street parking
There’s an island stop for:
— F Market & Wharves
— 6 Parnassus
— 9 San Bruno
— 9L San Bruno Limited
— 21 Hayes
— 71 Haight /​Noriega
right in front
Public transportation is of convenience and certainly a smarter option.
This store is definitely of convenience for people who work in nearby offices. Overall, positive first time experience so I’ll definitely be back.

I used to come here pretty often since it’s so close to work. But since Walgreens has been raising their prices, I’ve been coming here more sparingly.
Like I said, the location is convienient to me, but what Walgreens isn’t convenient to anyone? The location itself is not far from TL, so a lot of seedy characters beg for money in and out of the store.
The staff is pretty on point with lines not getting too long, which is good because I usually only have a limited amount of time when I’m there.
All the place isn’t great and not nearly as nice as the Powell location, but isn’t enough to keep someone from shopping here.

Hands down, the dumbest pharmacy staff on earth.
At some point I had a few prescriptions filled here, so now I occasionally get refills here by accident. These people manage to screw it up Every. Single. Time. And I don’t have complicated needs — mainly it’s slapping a label on a bottle and calling it good. Walgreen’s isn’t exactly a brain trust in the best of circumstances, but this location wins a special prize for stupidity.
I fear for your life if you get anything complicated/​dangerous from this place.

A Walgreen is a Walgreen so it’s really hard to say why is it really special. Well, there is a reason for me to give it a two stars. One of these days I was in line for a can of rockstar when I got a little bored with the free redbull in the office. The line was only 5-​people long and there were a total of 3 cashiers. It actually took me over 5 minutes to get my rockstar. With this few customers and that many cashiers, isn’t the wait a little bit unreasonable? Perhaps the cashiers were all having a bad day or they are just really slow. Patience is good but I believe most customers will prefer to spend their time with better uses than waiting in a line unnecessarily, especially on a work day.

Easy location. Service is pretty fast, but appears haggard. Area outside improving with the addition of Twitter upstairs.

It is what it is. If you live across the street like me or work in the immediate area, this is a convenient option for your drug store needs. It’s clean, organized, has a pretty good selection from toiletries, food, cards, and random chachkies. Pharmacy is quick and accurate. Employees are courteous, attentive, and actually manage to get the molasses out their ass*s when long lines queue up which is basically all day long. My only real complaint is that a lot of stuff is locked up. I don’t blame the store, rather it’s just a sign of the times. On more than one visit, I rang the service bell to have deodorant unlocked and from there just asked the employee to follow me because everything on my list for that visit was behind locked plastic cases. She did without complaining and I was gone. I’d rather have to do this then pay more at the checkout to cover their losses from stolen goods.
There are always panhandlers outside the front door, but it’s San Francisco. They’re everywhere.

To each his/​her own when it comes to doing a review on this Walgreens. Either one can’t stand it or one likes it.
This Walgreens (3 blocks from my office) is convenient for me to get a few things, including adding cash value to my Clipper card. I mainly shop here for greeting cards, snacks, candy and seasonal products (Christmas items). Generally, the cashiers are nice to me. I try not to give them any grief. Life at times is stressful and there is one thing I don’t want… added stress from anybody and vice versa.
Yesterday I needed some miniature red ornaments to put the finishing touch on my cubicle and a few bags of hershey kisses for my candy jars. Okay, it’s a quick trip to Walgreens to find the items. Did I find them? You betcha (as Miss you-​know-​who from Alaska would say… lol).
Tubular case of 48 shatterproof ornaments (red and gold) — $ 5.99; Hershey kisses, 4 bags for $ 10 (earned 2,000 bonus points); Ferrero Rocher candy, 5.3 oz, 2 for $ 7; 1 egg salad sandwich on honey wheat bread (3 stars) for $ 4.99 — lunch; and woo hoo… Sweet Leaf Peach Tea (my fav) at 99 cents a bottle… grabbed three of them.
Definitely there will be a return trip to get more of that Sweet Leaf Peach Tea before they jack up the price to $ 1.69. Current price of Sweet Leaf Tea at Nob Hill — 2/​$ 3.00; 10 for $ 10.00 at Safeway (and they don’t have it).
Total spent: $ 31.06. Bonus points earned: 8,000.

This Walgreens is interesting, to say the least. I don’t know, it might be regular to SF standards, but it’s interesting how many things are locked up. The first time I came here was on my break, and I needed deoderant (I know, tmi but the orgainic one I had previously purchased was not working to satisfy my standards). Anyway I just needed a small one for convenience, and I was surprised that it was behind glass and needed to be unlocked. I later spoke to one of my sisters who lives in San Fracisco, and she told me with nonchalance that that is how it’s done here.
For future reference, if you need nail clippers, they’re behind the counter. As well as lighters, though as an employee told me, they sell out quick — though they don’t carry matches, for some odd reason. That really helps when you’re buying candles I suppose. But overall I can’t say I’ve had horrible experiences the few times I’ve been here. The employees walking the floor always point me in the right direction when I need something, and someone is always coming in with their dog. Though I always have a hard time finding their weekly circular of coupons. Also, there is no lot parking so I have no idea how people with cars would get here.
I will say that on first appearances the store looks pretty small. There are a few displays and a lot of stuff out once you walk in, and a few steps upon walking in you will hit the line (which awkwardly goes down the candy asile (though I think is purposeful, for the gum is right by you and the travel size stuff is to your left, easy to grab for the thoughtfully ‘cheap’ purchase). The entire thing is just awkward, because people assume the line curves in an ‘L’ arc in front of the cashier counter when it’s really a straight line down the candy asile. Too bad for those who like to browse their sweets with no pressure.

This Walgreens is my past time during lunch when I absolutely have nothing to do, just walk here and check out their magazines and snacks. The employees are nice, sometimes the cashier line can be insanely long but you can also pay at the cosmetics department. I’m never a fan of Walgreens since they are overpriced but since they are everywhere in SF, I have no choice. They have good selections of snacks and junk, but everything else can wait if you want to save a few bucks. Of course being in the tenderloin, there are tons of bums in the neighborhood and always 1 outside the store soliciting for money.

I love how the children’s toys are directly opposite the condoms and pregnancy tests. Glad to see someone has a sense of humor.
Oh, and the soap is locked up. The soap. There’s classy, and then there’s Market Street classy.
It’s Walgreen’s. There’s really not much to say.

The only reason I am Unilocaling this Walgreen’s is that I have never seen so many boxes of Snuggies in one place. I was rather taken by the leopard print one called the «Wild Side»…GR-R-R-ROWLLLL…(see photo), which I could well imagine would have been the one worn by Mo’Nique’s character in «Precious» as she was yelling at Mariah Carey or hurling the big-​screen TV at her daughter. They even have matching Snuggies for your little dogs because we know how beagles like to switch the channel when «Family Guy» is on (see photo). That’s all I got. Thank you for allowing me to share this self-​indulgent revelation with you.