CVS Pharmacy

I like the fact that there is a CVS at walking distance from my home, there are many useful products at this location although the place looks beat-​up, we have to keep in mind that for the size of the store the place is understaffed. I recently stopped in and I must commend the Employee I believe her name tag read Daisy, she was a multi-​tasking super star. She had a great attitude regardless the fact that she was the only one working up front. With the proper staff I think this place can really shine. its 4 stars based on store appearance.

This may be the grossed drugstore I have ever been too (perhaps in a first world country?). Some things I hate about this horrid place: The pharmacy is disorganized and consistently overwhelmed. The store it dirty and poorly stocked. There is an abundance of anti theft tags on products.
CVS — if you care about your brand at all — consider shutting this store down or remodeling. You are 100% inferior to Walgreens in the Chicago market, and this store is the flagship for that inferiority.

I just moved a couple blocks away from this CVS and have been able to pick up some items from there over the last couple days. The people at the register have been friendly and the store is clean. It is one of the bigger CVS’s I have been to before. That being said, CVS is more expensive than going to Jewel or buying on Amazon so I try not to go unless I need something immediately.

Well, this is my closest local CVS, and if I need shampoo at midnight, I’ll go because it’s most convenient. However, loiterers, homeless people, and drug dealers are a real and consistent problem at this location– they need to control that. I don’t want to walk out at 1am and be solicited… or be offered drugs about 50% of the times I visit…

The parking lot for this place is gigantic. Although there is never more than 3 cars in it. The store is fairly large and has everything I need which really amounts to only one thing the TP. Yes that’s right the CVS brand TP is by far the best around and I will make the special trip just for that product.

I considered deducting another star because the physical appearance of the store isn’t top-​notch, but that is just because it’s an older store. I actually don’t mind that anyway. The area can be a little sketchy at night also.
I also have never had a problem here at all; in fact, like someone else said, this is now my new favorite CVS. Here is what I like about it:
— The store and pharmacy staff are great. The pharmacy staff are patient, quick, and pleasant. They don’t make you feel bad because you are asking them to do their jobs (which was my experience at the Walgreen’s just south of this CVS on Milwaukee). The only issue I had was that they told me my wait would be 30 minutes; it ended up being less but they didn’t page me. I ended up wandering around for 45 minutes; perhaps I didn’t hear it.
–They always seem to have medications in stock and don’t mind checking for you if you call ahead.
–The selection of alcohol and general store items is impressive and reasonably priced for a drug store. I actually go here to buy wine and beer frequently. They have a decent selection of cold beers and wine varietals at cheaper prices than the liquor stores in the neighborhood.
–The parking lot is big and never full (not that I have noticed).
Like I said, the store itself is old-​school, but if that doesn’t bother you, then you shouldn’t have a problem here!

WORST CVS IN THE CITY! Every time I go to pick up my medications here they are NEVER ready and it is always the same excuse, we need to call your insurance… well, then why the F haven’t you called them already? Thank you for inconveniencing me and making me wait even longer now in your shit hole of a store. The store is very nasty and the mole faced B of a pharmacist needs to take her head out of her butt and actually DO HER JOB. The last time I went here she gave me medication for chemo treatments… I didn’t know I was getting chemo treatments! STAY FAR, FAR AWAY!!!

Maybe there’s new management and staff since all the negative reviews because this CVS is my favorite!
Yes, there are a few grouchy employees, but, good lord, people, relax, it’s a retail store. I’d be grouchy too every now and then.
The manager I see most — tall guy, usually with a beard/​goatee — is very nice as well as most of the employees.
They are always patient with me when I use my coupons. Yes, I use coupons, don’t hate on me. I’m always polite and let you go in front of me in line.
Quite honestly, I’m not sure how this CVS is still open because it is rarely ever busy — which is great for me.
It’s also fun to shop on a Friday or Saturday night when there’s a concert at the Congress. It’s just pure entertainment to see the drunk and high teenagers come in to ask to use the washroom (which, wisely, is always conveniently ‘out of order.’)

I have never had a problem here. They have booze, afterall. They have a sign here that says «Snacks» and underneath it, is a bunch of wine. Now that’s my kind of snack. The pharmacy is good here too. They usually can get your prescription filled within the hour (usually 15 min).
Sign up for a CVS card too. I always randomly get CVS free money coupons from having that.
The only thing that sucks about this CVS is the parking. The parking lot is seriously a mess and very poorly laid out. The only exit goes to a one way street where the first available turn isn’t for 6 blocks. This is why I go out the wrong way and hope I don’t get hit.
Oh wait, I just thought of another thing that sucks about this CVS… the cart blockers outside the entrance. They are too close together, my fatass boyfriend has to suck in his gut and squeeze sideways to get through.

I LOATHE this CVS with a passion. If you have a question for the staff (or at least those I’ve asked), you will get a blank stare or inaudible reply.
I would much rather go ½ the block up to Walgreens and spend a bit more money than go there.
I can’t even type anything else. Just avoid this CVS location.

I like the wine selection they have here, but I hate going to the pharmacy. The other reviewers have it right: the staff is rude and almost incompetent. I went in to pick up a prescription the other day, and I had run out of refills. They didn’t feel they had to tell me it was expiring when I was there last month, or that I should give my doc a call, but when I went in to refill it they said I couldn’t. Even the attendant on duty said it was odd that I had not tried to fill the order, but that they were faxing the doctor to get a refill.
That’s not my only bad experience, but it’s my most recent. I’ve had to wait for my meds once because they lost the filled prescription and had to create a new one, waiting in a 10 person long line because someone no-​showed to work, and dealt with rude and aloof pharmacy cashiers.
I’m moving soon, and very excited to be done with them.

The store never looks fully stocked and there is always just one register open… even when it’s busy. I do tend to end up here for the basics just because it’s closer to me and because i’m too lazy to walk to the Walgreens that’s less than two blocks away from this CVS but if you are not lazy I would recommend heading to Walgreens instead for yu essentials.

The pharmacy staff at this location is horrible. They are often rude and unprofessional. My prescriptions seem to be ready on time (when dropping off), less than 50% of the time. I also believe that the pharmacist working today, basically insinuated I am either a criminal or a drug addict. All because I dropped off a prescription 25 days after the last time it was filled (as opposed to a full 30 days!). Avoid this pharmacy at all costs.
I know the customer service of the Walgreen’s pharmacy staff down the street sucks, but this CVS is even worse.

Not sure why so many negative reviews. I’m originally from Connecticut. There’s nothing like this CVS in CT. There’s a liquor store inside! Its huge, and they sell everything.

I occasionally shop here, as its close to my place. However, if possible, I will shop ANYWHERE else. Including the walgreens another block over. This CVS almost always has a long line of customers waiting to make their purchases. There is typically ONE cashier. When the line gets ridiculously long, they finally call for another cashier… who gets to the register 15 minutes later. The customer service is appalling.

Yeah, I wouldn’t even go here if they carried my script at Walgreens down the street. Is this a homeless shelter or what? Too sketchy to walk to with a baby. Smells funny inside too. Stay away. Go to a different location or better yet, go to Walgreens right south of here.

It’s a CVS. They’re all pretty much the same. Except this one isn’t open all night, which sucks. I tried to go at 6:45 a.m. to pick something up before school and it didn’t open until 8. WTF?!
The store is usually pretty clean and organized — sometimes there’s a ton of stuff just strewn about in the seasonal aisles, but I guess no one’s perfect.
They sell alcohol and a little bit of food (very nice that they sell milk and other dairy products), which is convenient and you can get almost anything else you need. The staff are usually walking around aimlessly and clueless when you ask them questions. The checkout staff are usually older and grumpy or indifferent — it’s kind of depressing to try and talk to them, so I just try to make it through the line quickly without incident.
Again, it’s just a CVS. They’re all OK and pretty much exactly the same everywhere in the city. Osco is my favorite drugstore and CVS will never be as good as Osco.

The only reason that I offer two stars for this CVS is because they are two blocks from my house and I sometimes will go if they don’t have something at the Walgreen’s a block down. First, how can they not keep a simple product like cigarettes in stock. I smoke Marlboro Ultra Light. (I know, I know, Its bad for me. I’m quitting!) Three times I’ve stopped in for a pack and they are out. So, I ask for Marlboro Light — no go. OK, how about Camel Light — nope. That’s pretty ridiculous — and it happened 3 times.
The second thing is that the employees are absolutely miserable. Some are beyond rude and actually mean. I saw one clerk yell at a special needs child who had stopped in on Halloween to trick or treat. She told him to get line with everybody else who was buying merchandise. The kid almost cried.
I have had other bad experiences with the staff here also. But, I’m not going on about this place. The people are just crap.

I like this CVS because it’s big (it’s a former Jewel) and they stock cheap liqour. I also always found their prices for sundries way cheaper than Walgreens, especially if you have a card. Parking lot, however, really sucks. A windswept wasteland that is barely used has no place on Milwaukee. Oh, and I find they stock fewer items than when it was Osco. Good for the neighborhood with few other walkable options.

This is my very favorite CVS in the whole entire world. Of course, I am sure it differs only slightly from every other CVS in the Chicagoland area, and in most locations where a CVS of this size is common (aka in Bloomfield-​Shadyside-​N. Oakland Pittsburgh as compared to the CVS in my hometown). But this is the CVS that is within five minutes (lets make it three minutes) of walking from my apartment, and this makes it the most indispensable CVS for me yet.
Let’s put it this way, I can get things here that might make me take two trips (or one to a well-​stocked Jewel, which is much farther away), under the condition that I don’t need groceries involving fresh meat or produce. For example, one trip to the CVS can get me the following things: toilet paper, my preferred brand of paper towels, a can opener, a silverware drawer organizer, high and low brand hair products, decent (okay, starbucks) ground coffee, mayan chocolate haagen dazs, cigarettes, middle-​of-​the-​road beer, plastic inserts for my binder for school shits, construction paper, teaspoons, qtips, soymilk, atomically hot pink nail polish, postage stamps.
What can I not get here? Food and Wine magazine, a single bic lighter (aka not in a two or five pack), method hand wash or body wash (though they have the dish soap), a four pack of la fin du monde, consistently prompt check-​out service.
For that, four stars.