Walgreens

Very baaaaaaad experience, the pharmacist calls Asmita was rude and not ready to help the customer, she is lazy and not professional. i am living in Lexington and Walgreen over there is great. I thought all Walgreens are good but I was totally wrong. I don’t recommend any one to go there.

I frequent this Walgreens due to it being close by to my house and more times than not its late night after work. My fiancé and I stopped in last night and left with smiles on our faces due to Candie, whom I’ve labeled the nicest, most pleasant woman alive. So refreshing to see her behind counter, she is always so happy and cheerful and anyone that checks out with her leaves there with a smile. I know not too many people write reviews about Walgreens but she deserves to be recognized. Thanks for always putting a smile on our faces.

the pharmacist i belive his name is kenneth is an complete dick! i will never never go to this walgreens again due to the pharmacist that thinks he is god ! he is rude inconsiderate and all around an asshole. he has no regard towards the patients and their needs … nevermind the fact he lied to my doctors office!
i have always gone to walgreens for everything including any prescriptions, the essentials… but this guy has some nerve i will never step into walgreens again. hes rude ignorant a lair and self absorbed .
if i was you dont dont dont go this store! i know i will never go again !
no stars thank god that there is other pharmacy’s.

By far the most horrible Walgreen pharmacy I’ve had to deal with. They never have the prescription on time. I’ve received a call stating my prescription is ready to be picked up; once i get there to pick it up, they said it was still processing. A week later, it wasn’t ready still. They’ve messed up my prescription before. You have to constantly call every day to get an update and no one seems to know what’s going on.

They’ve done this place over. Had heard rumors a Starbucks was going on but that’ll teach me to listen to rumors. Ok… so it’s bigger. all that means is more walking around. Not impressed. The drive thru prescription service is nice.
I’ve got their app downloaded and needed a protein powder… I find one they’re offering for 16.99 on their app and it was but one get one free this week. Sounds good… to in search for it .find it… Go to register… And I get overcharged by 2.00. I wasn’t going to say anything but thought better of it and went back to a register. The young man looks at the app… Checks out any mention of exclusions and tried to issue a refund but can’t override the register. Get the manager «Mr. H «as he’s called. who stinks to high heaven! I’m telling you this man has body older elite and tried to cover it up with some Axe body spray or some crap. It was barely tolerable to stand next to the guy. Anyway he refused the refund and claimed it was online only. Got another manager who said the same thing… I point out it wasn’t available for online purchase and she tells me it has to be «bought and ordered to ship to their store online». Look, it made NO sense. None what so ever. If you can’t order it online… You can’t put the order through… If the app says it’s available in your local store wth are they saying? She actually said it would take days for the store to get it when shipped! Ummm you have it right here in the store… what does this mean? They didn’t want to give the refund.period.
My point here is they were all shady about it.
Second… Bad hygiene is offensive. There’s no way around it. Its a put off. Nobody wants to deal with someone who smells like that. It IS ok to tell your employees to clean up or be sent home.

I never had any problem with this store. The staff is very helpful. It opens ²⁴⁄₇ and I can always find the things I’m looking for. Given that this is the only ²⁴⁄₇ store in Malden, what else more should you expect? 5 stars.

I’ve long frequented this Walgreens. I’ve payed 50% premiums on things because they were in a drug store and not a super market. I’ve been pleasant and had my head bitten off by their clerks. I’ve been mansplained by people stocking shelves. I’ve purchased milk and gotten home to find it’s a week past its sell by date.
The straw that broke the camel’s back? Tonight, I went in to pick up a prescription I called in yesterday. Now, I was wondering why their «automatic monthly refill» hadn’t automatically refilled my last two prescriptions, but okay, fine, things happen. Then, I get there tonight, spend ten minutes waiting in line (because they didn’t have my prescription at the «express window»), and find out that they didn’t refill the prescription I phoned in yesterday. I asked why I didn’t get a call or any notification, and the woman at the counter just said, «It’s a glitch with the system. It happens. It sucks. We can’t do anything about it.»
Um, what? You know there’s a problem with the system, you don’t fix it or even warn customers about it, and when it happens, you act nonchalant about it?
So, I asked them what they were going to do about it. I’m here, I’ve made a trip out of my way to get this prescription that was called in and was supposed to be ready, and their response: «There’s nothing we can do about it. It’s not our fault, it’s the system. We know it sucks, but that’s it.»
Um, again, no «I’m sorry» or «We’ll try to rush this order, since it should have been ready when you got here.» (I mean, how freaking long does it take to put 60 pills in a plastic container?)
In fact, the cashier was downright rude. I explained that I didn’t have time to wait or really to come back, and she acted like it was unreasonable for me to expect a prescription be ready when Walgreens said it would be. (I was there after a 14-​hour day, the detour home from the T added 30 minutes to it, no, the prospect of waiting for them to be ready when I couldn’t trust them to be ready when they said they would be was not particularly appealing.) That said, I didn’t raise my voice, I did not say anything rude, but I had to pry to get any answers from her. As in, I told her I couldn’t wait and she was just like, «Okay then.» So, I asked her, «When will my prescription be ready?» And she’s all, «I already told you.» Um, no, you didn’t — you told me when it would be ready if I selected the «wait around for it» option. If there isn’t a difference in the amount of time it takes when you choose wait for it vs. come back later, then why do you ask people to choose one?
So, yeah. Done. Over it. The pharmacy has long been slow and filled with clerks who are discourteous at best, and I can take my prescription and my business elsewhere. So, I will.

They always have what I’m looking for, and the staff at night when I’m usually there is very helpful. I’ve also never had any issue with the pharmacy, which seems to be a huge hot button here.

I’m not in the GAME of writing bad reviews, but this Walgreens I MUST comment on…
This Walgreens is the worst of the worst, it IS much bigger than before, but they seem to have filled up 80% of the new space with GARBAGE (literally). The registers are also the slowest I have encountered. before the unwarranted expansion, the store was half the size, with a pretty big Blockbuster Video next door. Blockbuster unfortunately went out of buZiness, and the powers that be had the brainstorm of doubling its size. GRANTED that part of Malden Center already serves PLENTY of lowlifes, but this Walgreens «respectable» clientele seems to have disappeared and this location is Chock Full Of EBT recipients. This store was MUCH BETTER berfore the expansion. They had two Indian (Pakistani) women working there who really knew their stuff, and were also pleasant and efficient. I have not seen them lately, They also screwed up the parking pattern. You used to be able to enter through Main Street (the MAIN drag), but you are now forced to enter through Centre Street (if you are travelling Southbound). If you’re going in the opposite direction, this makes Walgreens a «no-​no», and we proceed up the street to CVS, which has PLENTY of on-​street parking. I like Walgreens better than CVS, but NOT THIS ONE!

Transferring prescriptions pronto to cvs or target! This place is horribly disorganized and wait times are ridiculous. Not good if you’re in pain :(

Don’t get me wrong, Walgreens serves its purpose & always has what I’m looking for, thats not the issue.
Parking: if Hell were a physical place on Earth, it would look similar to this parking lot. I’m having an anxiety attack just thinking about it.
Pharmacy: I don’t know if it’s just the staff that are ridiculously slow, or if it is related to the customers that frequent this area but OMG. I once saw a woman in line trying to return a used pregnancy test.
But like I said, otherwise this Walgreens does its job, I just might need to switch pharmacies because my only 2 issues are enough to make me never want to go back,

Why would you expect so much? All the bad reviews are unfounded and based on unusual experiences. Yes the lines are long but the cashiers are efficient. It’s open 24hrs a day so I always go when no one is there and I have a very peceful experience. The pharmacists are caring and much better than stop&shop across the street. The store is undergoing renovations too, so hopefully it will be even better.

The worst place to go for no matter what. I came in for passport photo and had to wait 40 min after my photos was printed because the guy went somewhere without saying why and when he is coming back. On the same time they lost so many clients because there was no one to help.

If you enjoy shopping on a dirty store, waiting in line forever, and being refused the sale price this is the place for you!

Everything about this Walgreens is absolutely, without question, horrible. The parking lot makes no sense. The store (while recently updated) is just your average convenience store. The pharmacy (though 24 hours) is awful. The service at both the pharmacy and the check out is the slowest of all slow.
I was in desperate need to fill a prescription and it took the pharmacy tech almost twenty minutes to get my script in. Then I told her I wanted to wait. She told me 10 — 15 minutes and I waited almost 30. When I queued to finally get my stuff, there was one tech checking people out… so all told I was stuck in this terrible, horrible, no good store for almost an hour.
NEVER AGAIN.

It’s a WALGREENS people not dior. Also, it’s in the ghetto. That being said, usually cheaper than a cvs. Anyway, I shop here. nuff said. :)

I normally wouldn’t take the time to review something as generic as a Walgreens, but this one stands out as consistently being the SLOWEST pharmacy I’ve ever used.
My most recent experience includes my finace being told it would take one hour to refill a prepackaed prescription. It was the middle of the afternoon on a weekday. There were only two other customers in the pharmacy. The entire refill process consists of picking the prepackaed box off the shelf, checking the computer to confirm it’s correct, and ringing up the transaction. When we inquired with the manager as to why it would take so long, we were told it was «for her safety» because we wouldn’t want the pharmasist to «go to fast and make a mistake.»
That inspires confidence.
But what about the last time we were here, when our script had been called in from the doctor that morning, and we had been called and told it was ready. We still stood around the store for 40 minutes, waiting
Ooh, and I almost forgot about the time I was there with a female friend, buying a pregnancy test, and the cashier decided to comment. He looked to be in his mid 20s, probably lived with his mother, and I doubt he’d ever known the touch of the woman. His brilliant insight: «Wow, those things are expensive! I hope they get Bluetooth!»
I don’t know how this place is run or what goes on behind the counter of a Walgreens pharmacy, but I don’t have much confidence left in this location. A brand new CVS just opened around the corner, and there’s a little mom-​and-​pop pharmacy still hanging on just up the street — we may be taking our business there from now on…

This Walgreen’s SUCKS! It’s dirty, crowded, and always has long lines. The parking lot is always packed, so much so that on a recent trip some idiot backed right out of his parking spot and into my car. The lines at the pharmacy are frequently horrendous. Last time I was there the guy ahead of me in line wanted some «diabetic syringes». The pharmacist spent about 5 minutes with the guy trying to find a needle that was thin enough for his track-​lined arms. Another time I witnessed a drug-​addicted couple dig through the trash for a decent receipt so they could go in the store, steal the items, and then try to return them for cash. Save yourself the hassle and go to the clean Walgreen’s at Station Landing in Medford.

Here’s my (seemingly) obligatory poem-​style Unilocal review. I also threw in some of my thoughts/​clarifying info in parentheses. Oh, I’m so HELPFUL!
When I get a sandwich from D’Angelo,
or I’m craving some Arizona Iced Tea,
or I decide to take a stroll at 3 am,
I go to Walgreen’s, & I’m glad as can be!
(Well, maybe glad’s not the word. Walgreen’s is actually a depressing place. I hate going there.)
There’s cheapo mittens, 2 for ten bucks…
& candy bars: $ 1.29 or three for $ 3!
If you want toys or prescription medications…
Walgreen’s has them both for you & me!
(There’s a photo center, too.)
The checkout lines can get a little long,
& some items are of dubious quality.
Sometimes, I just run in & run back out,
because sometimes, it smells like sweat & pee. :(
(Seriously. Creepy.)
The workers are usually friendly.
But the décor looks like it’s from 1983.
Sometimes, they don’t have what I want.
Therefore, I give this Walgreen’s a C.
(That’s average — three stars, people. Actually, closer to 2.5, but I grade on a curve.)

I realize that I should have learned by now not to expect too much from a Walgreens, but the other day topped all bad experiences. I needed something (which shall remain nameless) from one of those locked cases in an aisle. So like any good shopper, I pressed the call button and heard a blaring announcement that assistance was needed in my aisle. Like a horrible, computerized parrot, the announcer lady kept saying it, and saying it. The whole store turned to look at me standing in front of that locked case. And then, horror of all horrors, no one came to help me. I waited approximately 5 minutes (hours?), and then felt so annoyed that I grabbed the generic version (suspiciously outside of the lock box) and ran.
Ran to the counter with the extremely long line, that is. Ug!
The only redeeming quality of this Walgreens is that the late night pharmacists are great. But for everything else, just forget it.