Walgreens

Probably the nicest convenience store I’ve ever been in! They have all the usual items, like snacks, fruit, candy, drinks, as well as a frozen yogurt station, sushi bar, bakery, and an entire section dedicated to beauty brands. I highly recommend the massive milk chocolate cookie at the bakery! The white chocolate cashew cookie was pretty delicious too. Considering many spots to satisfy a dessert craving close in Boston at 9 pm (Orange Leef, Sweets across the street), this is a great alternative.

We were shocked to see that they have a sushi bar here. We tried their salmon avocado sushi roll and it turned out to be pretty good!
Bonus for being housed inside the former Boston Five Cents Savings Bank with thick limestone walls and large windows for natural lighting. You gotta check it out!

A beautiful Walgreens.
That’s a weird thing to say, but here it is. It’s giant and aesthetically pleasing with lots of giant windows and it’s actually kind of nice to walk through.
But then again, it’s a Walgreens. The staff are grumpy and almost never help. The isles are laid out in kind of a chaotic fashion. And you kind of do just want to get in and get out.
But while you are there, it’s quality. Better than more, no question.

This is a review for the smoothie bar. Love love love the smoothies & fresh juices!

i can count on one hand the amount of times i’ve been here during normal business hours lol and that is precisely why this walgreens gets five stars. a 24-​hour store in dtx that sells this kind of variety of things and it has a less than perfect rating? clearly the worse reviews come from people who shopped during normal business hours.
to clarify: this is a store where you can buy any of the following things at any hour of the day, any day of the year:
–nuxe body oil
–sushi
–vitamins
–puppy training pads
–shaving cream
–scented candles
–dish soap
–tweezers
–essie nail polish
-«boston» t-​shirt
–lindt chocolate
–fro-​yo
–condoms
–maple syrup
need i go on???
the nail salon/​liquor section/​pharmacy are NOT ²⁴⁄₇ but the fact that all of the above things ARE is a damn miracle, and in such a location as dtx to boot. if you live/​work/​party in this area, you cannot afford to say a single bad thing about this walgreens.

This is really an amazing store. The options for food and various products is great and hey, how can you hate a liquor store and sushi that is actually good surprisingly from a drug store? But the understaffing of the place makes the stars go down. At peak lunch break hour I am really unsure why they do not have more staff on hand to ring out customers. There are usually 4 empty registers and a very very long line. I get thay you cannot control if people are applying and if you are having trouble staffing but it is just very hard to get in an out on a lunch break like I usually need to. Also, I witnessed an employee rudely talk back to the manager when they asked them to take their break later and to help through the rush and she said to the manager, «Well I’m hungry now so I am going right now, deal with it.» And the manager just allowed this to happen in front of various customers. Very poor. I will always come back because of the convenience to my workplace but needs a bit of work.

Cool store. Really big. Beautiful design. Good layout. And there were security guards (plural) patrolling. I didn’t know if I should feel safe or under surveillance.
I came here without reading all the praises on Unilocal.I only needed some cold and flu med. Guess what, I thought I walked into a boutique for skincare and cosmetics. Not far fetched, cause there were a lot of department store brands here. I didn’t take long to locate the medication section. The prices were similar to other Walgreens location, so I had no complaint.
Note that public restrooms are located on lower level. Take the elevator down.

Look, I know your job sucks. You don’t want to be working at a Walgreens. I’ve had plenty of crappy jobs too! But hey, maybe if you put in a modicum of effort you might work your way out of this sh*thole and on to bigger and better things. Instead, you are so incompetent you can’t even put all the items I purchased in the damned bag, so when I get home I discover the things I really need are still at your crappy store!
This is supposed to be some top notch fancy Walgreens and yet it is just another stupid chain in a city overrun with pharmacies. A CVS next to a Walgreens next to another CVS! The first one didn’t have your brand of tampons? Just move on down to next the florescent lit crap hole!
The only thing that distinguish one from another is, get this, customer service!
Shape up Walgreens and make sure you treat your employees right… make them happy and the customer will be happy too.

The cashiers are damn rude. There is a solid selection and nice layout though. I highly do NOT recommend getting the food unless you want to spend more hours in the bathroom than at your cubicle.

This is the best Walgreens. It’s HUGE and has a coke freestyle which is why I went. Nice public restroom and definitely has all that you need.

From hearing all of the amazing reviews about this location, I was super excited to finally stop here and see the flagship store for myself.
Walking in… I was a little underwhelmed. It was setup like an open floor location of Walgreens. You enter to the dry foods with coolers in the rear. I walked to the right to see the smoothie bar attached to a small bakery counter and small sushi counter.
Behind me was a decent froyo setup with a ton of different toppings to choose from. Star down for the mess that was on the counters. Left over melted froyo, napkins and a ton of toppings just laying around.
So I headed up to the beauty section, hoping to be blown away, but it totally fell flat for me.
The pharmacy was on the left and had a line that was 3 – 4 people deep. They have a «upscale» section of makeup and perfume that had 1 employee standing around with a clipboard. She did not bother to greet myself (or anyone for that matter) so I just looked around.
I saw the much talked about nail salon/​spa section. Another star lost due it it looked like a small cut off closet that was turned into a last minute spot to do nails. I peeked inside and saw an employee cleaning bottles of polish, bit also throwing bad bottles across the room. Not very professional in my eyes.
Walked around the regular makeup section that had a few brands my local stores don’t carry and was happy to see a different variety in makeup choices.

It’s very convenient, but the «fresh food» never really looks fresh. The liquor store has good selection and pricing but it takes way to long to get checked out, there’s usually a long line, always only one cashier and it seems customers either don’t have ID, are paying for their purchase by counting out change or are already drunk. They have a big display right in the middle of the aisle in front of the register that you have to manuever around. I guess what I’m saying is that the location is conveneint, but forget it if you are in a hurry.
And the sushi contains carbon monoxide to keep it looking fresh, gross.

I don’t normally review pharmacies, but this one saved me yesterday.
I was trying to find insoles to put in my shoes, which were extremely comfortable… until they weren’t. I walked, and walked, and walked, and not being from here, I don’t have a go-​to place. My blisters were so excited when this had what CVS didn’t — a 3-​pack of insoles for a reasonable price.
They also ask if you want to use your points, which is considerate, since in Delaware I’ve never once been asked that question. It’s a small detail, but made a huge difference in how much I paid.

I needed to grab some essentials so I thought I’d just jam over to Walgreens real quick, grab what I needed and probably a bag of peanut butter m & m’s and the Us Weekly that was taunting me at the register. There I was, walking up and down the street all confused because why does Walgreens look like SEPHORA all of the sudden. I just wanted some advil and some gum.
This whole Walgreens experience left me feeling a little unsettled. It’s all sparkly and white and glossy inside with department store lighting and fancy little checkout kiosks in the middle of the cosmetics floor. Yes, I said «cosmetics floor»…at Walgreens. Weird.
I asked the cashier (though I feel I should be referring to her as a cosmetics artist or something) and she said it’s like that because it’s their flagship store. Ok. I appreciate beautiful things and maybe I just happened to walk into the door on the fancy side, but it’s Walgreens. They must sell foot powder and dog food and Cheetos here too, right? But where? I’m confused. Just give me my Advil.

This used to be my go to morning stop. I’d stop in, get a bottle of water, lunch, coffee, and head to work. If I needed to, I’d stop by their public bathroom.
The other day on my commute, nature started knocking. I jumped off the bus almost before it stopped moving and rushed to Walgreens. As I headed to the bathroom a manager rudely stopped me; «Stop! You can’t go back there!.» He pointed to a printout that said the bathroom was now closed from 11pm to 8am. This was around 6 in the morning. I told him it was an emergency and that I shopped there literally every weekday but he, the manager with the power to make an exception to that arbitrary rule, seemed to take pleasure in denying me.
I get that there’s a drug problem in the city and I’m sure that bathroom has seen some nasty stuff. But newsflash, heroin addicts don’t just shoot up from 11 – 8, they will use your bathroom for the same purpose any time during the day. I’d understand if it was 3 in the morning, but at 6 us working stiffs are arriving.
I was counting on that bathroom and a manager should have the discretion to make an exception to that rule. I managed a retail store for years and I knew when to let people use the commode. There was no good reason to turn me down.
Anyway, I managed not to poop myself. Got to the 711/​dunks food court near new england medical center. But lo! — the gate was down. In pure desperation I gave it a yank and thank god it wasn’t locked. Long story short, barely managed to avoid having a very sh@@@y day at work, no thanks to the poor management at this walgreens.

This is the craziest Walgreen’s I’ve ever been in! It’s pretty cool… great selection, interesting space — not like the crappy Walgreen’s where I live.
My only knock is that is could be a bit cleaner. The frozen yogurt station was disgusting during my visit… the only thing missing were rats and cockroaches crawling around the counter.
Overall, pretty darn good.
4 stars

Surprisingly good smoothies with pretty sophisticated ingredients.
My friend, who is a bit of a nit-​picker loves the sushi.
The fro-​yo tastes likes soft serve, but it’s very cheap: you pay for the size of the cup rather than the weight. There are also a lot of toppings to choose from, but I hope you aren’t squeamish because this station is usually a mess.
Customer-​service is A+, They always have a lot of people working at the registers and throughout the store, and they appear to be trained not to be too invasive.
Rant of the day: Why don’t these big pharmacy/​all purpose stores carry construction paper anymore? When I was a kid, you could go to a store like this and get construction paper, sparkle glue, fancy scissors, etc. Now you simply can’t do that. The Walgreen’s staff, however, were sympathetic to my plight (I wanted to make a homemade valentines day card) and suggested I buy Valentines Day bags, cut the hearts out of them, and use them to decorate a red poster board (they have these, but no construction paper). It worked and I was very grateful for their ability to redirect my frustration,

I work at a Walgreens across the street from my apartment, but it sure doesn’t look like this one! This store is one of Walgreens’ newest flagships and let me tell you, it is divine! Honestly, if this store was in my neck of the woods, you would probably find me here ²⁴⁄₇. They have a great variety of fresh foods daily to choose from — sushi, wraps, sandwiches, smoothies, entrees — you name it! They also have a mani/​pedi bar and a pretty sweet pharmacy. The pharmacists don’t have to hide behind the counter here. Instead, they verify prescriptions via video so that there is more time for patient interaction! How awesome is that? Hopefully Walgreens can start rolling out this revolutionary pharmacy idea to more of their stores across the country soon!
One negative is that I’m pretty sure the prices at flagships are higher than the regular Walgreens stores. However, this makes sense from a marketing perspective.

This place has gotten a lot of press lately and people seem to be happy it’s here.
I had a mixed reaction when I visited the other day. For starters, I still miss the Borders bookstore that used to be in this spot.
I know I need to get over it, but there isn’t a big bookstore in all of Downtown Crossing now.
But back to this Mega-​Walgreens which is not just a drug-​store by any stretch.
It is a drug-​store on steroids and possibly LSD.
Sure, you can get all your typical pharmacy needs met here but on top of that you can get pre-​packaged foods, fresh sushi, fro-​yo, freshly made smoothies and juices, salads, souvenirs, a manicure (!), alchohol, and some groceries.
Yikes! If this doesn’t describe a mélange, I don’t know what does.
There isn’t a supermarket anywhere near this area so for people who live around here this might just seem a little bit like a God-​send. And just maybe it will help encourage more residential development on the blight that has become parts of this area of town since the demise of Filene’s and the iconic Filene’s Basement.
I think the biggest benefit for some, might be that there is so much under one roof.
In some ways it can be one-​stop shopping. And it’s open 24 hours.
But it all seems a bit too much and there are lots of things I just wouldn’t buy here from the looks of things. The fro-​yo station was a disaster. The day I visited the machines were drippy and leaky and the toppings area was a complete mess. Someone needs to be on standby to keep that area pristine and the machines in order.
Although the sushi looked good, I can’t wrap my head around buying sushi in a Walgreen’s. Sorry.
If I were here for a typical Walgreen’s pharmacy item and was short on time, maybe then I would consider getting a salad or fruit or a smoothie here but this would not be a food buying destination for me on its own.
The one thing I liked was the very large make-​up section on the second floor. I do love my makeup. It was more akin to what you would find in a department store rather than a typical drugstore.
Overall, I think this place will do a booming business. It was certainly packed when I was in there. But for me, I would prefer if it was still a bookstore.

DTXers rejoice! The empty space that Borders left in the heart of The Crossing has been filled — and not just with any drug store, but the fanciest damn Walgreens you’ll ever see.
The place has a sushi station, a juice bar, an entire floor of wine, beer and liquor, a self-​serve fro-​yo aisle with advanced flavors like red velvet, DIY toppings, an electronic screen that lets you mix Coca Cola products to create 120 different flavors (raspberry Coke!!), and [gasp for breath] a virtual bartender machine that will suggest drink recipes and help you plan your next party.
DTX was begging for a 24-​hour joint, and this place is the absolute jackpot. Word to the wise, though — liquor/​wine/​beer floor closes at 10 pm. Happy shopping!