Duane Reade

This Duane Reade rarely has anything I’m looking for that other Duane Reades sell when it comes to make up, hair care or body stuff. I was also very recently disappointed when I tried to purchase a pre-​lit, faux Christmas tree here (last night actually…) that was priced at $ 12.99, there was also some ‘buy 1 get 50%’ thing going on in the holiday section so I can also picking up a star topper (faux is best for our apartment — less maintenance — etc, etc.)
The cashier scanned the tree box and said it was $ 34.99 — From $ 13 to $ 35 is a pretty sizable increase — I would have been good sport at $ 20. I asked the cashier to get the manager because when something is labeled with a price then that’s the price. I’ve worked in retail, if a pricing error is made it’s not the customer that should suffer — the store should suck it up and be more mindful about how they price things.
The manager came over and said that she had put the wrong label on it because it was a «garbage label» — it was VERY neatly put put on the tree box and clearly a result of an error that no one was taking ownership for. The cashier even said it was haphazardly placed in the front of the box when that was a complete LIE and my boyfriend is thankfully my witness.
After I stressed that the cashier was mistaken and that the price tag was indeed neatly stuck on the top and pulled off by the cashier before the manager got to the front, all of a sudden the cashier became mute. The manager said she had labeled the box with «garbage labels» and can’t give sell it to us for the price it was labeled with… I decided to bring my money elsewhere and ended finding a better tree for $ 12. It’s 4.5 feet tall, fluffs out nicely and is pre-​lit with multi-​colored lights.
I already disliked this Duane Reade for always being out or not carrying things that other Duane Reades do, but after my experience here last night and the blatant lack of customer service here — this was the last straw.
Don’t come here. Go to Rite Aid on 31^st and Broadway or support the local pharmacy up the block closer to the train station.

All your quick shopping needs from frozen foods, household items to medication. Conveniently located in Astoria

I like this DR a lot. Good selection of everyday items. We mostly buy generic meds (ibuprofen, Tums, lactaid pills, etc.), beauty products, and vitamins here, with the occasional odd home-​y item like a small fan.
The pharmacy is quick and helpful as well.

Good size drug store with everything you need. Convenient set up, a bit pricey, friendly check out.

I like this Duane Reade. I go in here a lot. I don’t buy things every time, but it’s a good convenience store.
The cashiers, although a little slow at times, are always friendly. The store is always clean, and they layout is organized. It’s a bit small, so it’s actually really easy to find what you are looking for when you are in this store. (A little sidenote: I love the Duane Reade brands snacks as well!)
The store is conveniently located on Broadway, just 5 blocks from both the N/​Q train and the R train.
My only wish is that they would extend their hours a little bit. I feel like they don’t open quite early enough. I’ve occasionally found myself out looking for an open convenient store before 7am, and it’s pretty much impossible in this neighborhood.

Standard DR. Spacious, bright, clean. Friendly service. I don’t really buy much from pharmacies except medicine, makeup, toiletries, and feminine products, but for those things — the prices are right. Plus I like the rewards program that works with Walgreen’s as well.

Small, but a good store. Sometimes the pharmacy staff are helpful, though not always.

In a city of drugstores who don’t give a hoot, the Duane Reade on Broadway shines like a beacon of hope. It’s clean, free of homeless people, and is staffed by the nicest pharmacists of all time. I first started going here (out of my way, in fact), when I lived on Steinway because I had such a great customer service experience. When I was going on vacation and needed my prescription early, the pharmacists worked tirelessly with my insurance company to accomodate me. Since my insurance company is run by a pack of incompetents, they would not budge on giving me my prescription early. Right — like I’m going to abuse my birth control — right on, guys. [end of rant]. One of the pharmacists worked with me and though she had to sell me the prescription for full price, she let me come back and get credited for the original account at a later time. Now that is service!

They did good job turning the place around, it’s massive compare to the other drug stores in the area (Does Broadway need any more drug store???) Price is okay, if time allows I’d shop around the other locations on Broadway.

This is not a bad Duane Reade! My biggest beef with it, as with all Astoria pharmacies, is that they don’t carry Seventh Generation Disposable Diapers. What gives? This whole neighborhood is positively devoid of them (and it’s getting pretty irritating having to go into Manhattan or Williamsburg to buy my baby diapers). Inexplicably, they do have Justin Bieber barbies. Get your priorities straight, Duane Reade!
The sales clerk was very nice and patient as I stepped to the side to load up the stroller undercarriage with my purchases, so they get props for that. Also, I was able to snap up better baby products there than I am at the Rite Aid closer to my apartment – including a Keith Haring «Radiant Baby» bib and some Happy Baby organic sweet potato puffs. I don’t know that I’m going to walk this far away from home for a pharmacy – particularly one that doesn’t carry my #1 needed baby supply – but it would definitely replace the Rite Aid in my weekly routine if it were closer.

Clean, friendly staff and can find most of what I’m looking for here. However, it closes at 7pm on a Sunday! Wish that it was open just a little bit longer and later throughout the week.

I kind of love this Duane Reade… which feels weird to say. They certainly don’t have the great deals that Rite Aid has, but the store is always super clean, well stocked, and they carry a lot of brands that I prefer. I return, and often.

$ 4.99 for a box of Quaker Oats instant oatmeal.
$ 6 for a 4-​roll of toilet paper.
$ 4.19 for a gallon of milk.
Screw you, Duane Reade. When your prices are nearly 40% higher than even the most expensive Walgreens in downtown Chicago, you DESERVE to get bought out. Oh, by Walgreens.
Just because there aren’t any suburban style grocery store chains or competing drug stores nearby doesn’t mean you can gouge people. When a can of soup costs $ 4.50 but a cheap pair of tweezers costs $ 3.99, there’s a problem. Sure… there ARE specials. On crap I didn’t want while staying with a friend who thinks you’re a great store.
Yes, the people there were friendly, and the store was bright and clean, but you sorta expect that, right?

i did not expect of ever «review» Duane Reade! That all changed after I visiting this particular store on broadway, customer service was very nice, polite, informative, willing to help! or maybe i was subconsciously bribed with that free case of 12 bottle spring water that i received last week after spending 20 $ hmmm, either way, this place is clean, very «hi tech» and should be praised !

I practically laughed like hell when I walked in here. I guess it was because I thought I was in the future or something. Everything here looks so upgraded and «hi-​tech (?)». Same prices, same products, nothing really special, except the look.

The year is 2035. Location: the Broadway area of Astoria. Your woman has sent you out into the night on your electric hoverbike to get milk (or, as it is now called, space milk), and beer (or, as it is now called, space beer). The drugstore wars of the Broadway area started in the early 2000s, and left the landscape cold and decimated. Violence between Eckerd and Rite Aid begot violence. But one large chain drugstore has survived; The Duane Reade near the funeral home (which now has the ability to hold respectful, tasteful, yet modern ceremonies in which the remains of your loved ones are conveyed into space for a proper burial). You know that your woman will gleek if you do not have her space beer home in time for Law and Order: Space Crimes. You navigate your hover bike past marauding hoards, which include the bums who hang out in front of the bodega by Subway and who pee on the wall at the Broadway MTA monorail station. Somehow those bums have survived until 2035. You enter the Duane Reade, and you think how futuristic the lighting and design elements must have seemed to primitive Astorians back when it opened in 2009. You make it home, space beer in hand, to watch a quality procedural drama with your woman.
Large chain drugstores do not specialize in customer service. Where they really excel is in the acquisition of real estate, and the conversion of said real estate into chainstores. Soon, they will be all we have in the neighborhood. The pricing points are the same at most of these stores, and the staff are of the same dubious level of competence, so you may as well go to this store. Because it has a futuristic look and clean aisles. I wish they would stock more Nivea for Men products, though. They don’t have my oil control shaving cream.

How does one even review a Duane Reade? I will do my best to accomplish this in precisely 141 words
With great sarcasm I say, joy, just what Astoria needs (and more specifically the Broadway and Steinway area), another drug store. Well, not much we can do about that so…
The place just opened on February 6^th. The store has a nice, brand new look to it. Using new DR signage, modern displays and more. Very clean, went up practically overnight and they have been offering a lot of discounts and coupons out front. It is in a bit of a smaller space than other surrounding Rite-​Aids, DR and former Eckerd’s but they have carts that roll. They roll!
The pharmacist actually gets a big thumbs up because he helped fill an order when a neighboring pharmacists was a bit more difficult.
In the end so far, it is just another drug store. But it is nice and new. Ho Hum.

New offering from Duane Reade. Features the updated 2009 DR logo and futuristic lighting. The product selection is unoriginal, the checkout experience predictably slow.