CVS Pharmacy

I have used this location for a nice bit of time now. No longer. First there are rats all up in the bushes and around the building… Secondly it has taken over thirty minutes at the window to get service even with three staff inside. Jewel is cheaper and I don’t have to wait thirty while everyone chit chats and catches up… and seriously rats all out front GROSS

Fast, friendly service! I like that they have a drive thru pharmacy, that way when I’m in a Rush I don’t even have to leave my car! I am always in and out, I hate that they only have one person working at the cash register but this is common at CVS and there usually aren’t that many people in line anyway!

Why is CVS so damn bright! I’m spoiled on Walgreens store layout I supposed. Can’t do CVS.

I will totally agree with Heather’s assessment that there’s almost NEVER more than one friggin checker at this place, no matter how many people are in line.
For that matter, I am so NOT A FAN of the way CVS does checkouts anyway. You don’t line up at separate checkouts, parallel to the counter, a la Walgreen’s. Instead, usually some half-​assed non-​line cluster forms, a few feet from the one-​and-​only counter containing several registers. Basically, you stand there (and depending on the size or layout of the store, you’re butted up against bins of candy, stacks of 2-​liters or just generally ‘in the way’), then you wait for the cashier to (maybe) call you up. About half the time, another customer, unaware that such a non-​line exists, comes along and cuts in front of everyone, or at least tries. CVS, please get a system, maybe old– fashioned NUMBERED checkout counters, like all other stores? Or at least dedicate a place in front of the counter where people can line up in an orderly fashion. And last, if another register DOES open, don’t just let everyone scramble up there. Next in line gets the new cashier. Got all that?
Second complaint: the parking lot. The store is ON the corner of North and Kostner, yet you either have to go WAY west on North or enter on Kostner, then drive all the way around the building to get into the parking lot, like it’s the third ring of hell. Given the neighborhood, that’s not so far off (I live near here, I can say that). I’m guessing it’s like this to avoid quick escape?
Other than that, nice store, better than your average CVS, staff are friendly, once you actually talk to one. Don’t expect a liquor selection anything like ‘my’ other CVS (Grand and Central Park/​Division), though.

Okay, I like CVS. They always give me extra bucks for buying stuff I had to buy anyway. Cool. But, the 24-​hour CVS next to my apartment building is the worst, and I mean THE WORST, CVS. Actually, the worst drug/​convenience/​food store ever. I mean, you would think that living next to a 24-​hour store of any kind would be awesome. Especially since they serve liquor until 2am, right? Of course not.
I’ve lived in this neighborhood for 8 months now and I often frequent the store. I’ve seen them have one lane open on a weekend night with a cashier under 21, causing her to have to call an over-​21 checker to make every alcohol sale. On a weekend night in my neighborhood, 85% of the people on line have some liquor in their hand ready to purchase.
I’ve gone there for the most mundane of items, of which they are often out of stock Being hung-​over, in your pajamas and having to get in your car to drive somewhere because the rat hole store next to you is out of half and half is irritating as hell. Well, I can imagine it would be anyway.
Through those many, many, many, many times this store has been a disappointment, I always go back. I made so many excuses in my mind, like, lack of staff, the relatively new location, whatever. But, tonight, when this god forsaken CVS almost burned down my apartment and ruined my dinner, I realized it’s the worst managed, worst serviced store in my experience with the chain. And I’m finally going to complain.
All I wanted to do was get some diet Pepsi to go with my food. Just 1 bottle of pop, that’s all. I thought, «Why don’t I go to the store that is across the street from my house»? That’s a normal thought process involving a normal neighborhood store. So I figured that my pasta sauce would be fine simmering on the stove for 5 or 10 minutes. The time it would take to walk back-​and-​forth from a normal store for such a normal sale.
So it took me all of 30 – 45 seconds to walk in and grab my drink and head to the checkout. Well, there were 5 people in front of me. All obviously checking off their entire weekly shopping list by the amount of items in their carts and baskets. There was only one lane open. The manager was ‘busy’ stocking beer. Why in the world would the manager be stocking instead of opening another lane when there are that many customers? Do you know? If so, please enlighten me because I sure don’t. Especially when I swear that the checker was so slow that I had read all about Britney’s comeback before she started on the next customer. This customer has a LINK card, which doesn’t work, so they have to spend a good 5 minutes on that. Now it’s been 15 or so minutes, and I’ve still got 3 people in front of me. Now I start looking across the street at my kitchen window for any sign of flickering flames. I look forward and see she is still bagging the effing welfare recipient’s items and I lost it. I marched back to the fridge, threw my pop inside and slammed the fridge door while muttering angry four letter words on my march to the front door.
Running back to your apartment in frigid temperatures, through an icy alley, up frozen metal stairs to just be happy there’s no smoke then to realize you have to now drink plain ass water with your pasta is beyond what this loquacious tirade can express.
I’m done with this store. It’s like it isn’t even there anymore. It’s dead to me.