CVS/pharmacy

I’m not a fan of this location and the prices seem pretty high compared to most CVS locations but the staff is pretty decent. When I’m walking home from the train station and have to grab something quick, I’ll pick CVS over Duane reade any day.

Kind of «ew», like it’s a little dirty and disorganized. I couldn’t get a lot of the stuff on my list and some of the checkouts were not working (they were all self checkouts, I didn’t see any cashier at any of the registers).
However, I have to give a shout out to the staff. As I wandered around the store looking for stuff, three people asked me if I needed help finding things and once they pointed me in the right direction, I was able to get what I needed.
So the store in general is more of a «no thanks» but the kind and helpful staff is a «yes please»

I like CVS, this location might seem a little messy with some unavailability of products at times but it’s staff (the ones I exchanged with) are very sweet, a women who seems to be the Manager always knows exactly what I am looking for and walks me to the product every single time, the associates always accommodate the coupons I get through my phone with no questions asked! They are amazing. Most importantly I made a list of prices (of what I usually buy) I compared with Next door pharmacy and the results were amazing, before any reward discounts you SAVE A LOT with CVS it’s insane. Thank you CVS for not trying to rip your customer off! Best of luck

Not a surprise that this is one of the lowest rated pharmacies in New York.
My review is only for the pharmacy specifically. For the past six months I have tried to fill a prescription. They never have it. NEVER. Their only response is «we will have it in the middle of the week», and the best part is they won’t hold on to my prescription and fill it when they have it in stock.
Every other pharmacy I have been to has helped me this way. They have a policy where the won’t help you, even if they don’t have what you want in stock, which appears to be often.
Their pharmacy department fails in supporting the neighborhood and having medications in stock. There are a plethora of better places nearby, like Duane Reade, Walgreens, and small business pharmacies. Only thing is they are not 24 hours like CVS.

Among the multiple pharmacies in this neighborhood, this one feels the oldest and is in need of a cosmetic facelift. The only plus is that self checkout seems to speed things along.

I had a huge amount of plastic bags for recycling, and I purposely brought them with me today because I was going to change buses across the street from this store. The nice young guy helping several people at the self-​service check-​out told me I could give the bags to the cashier — but Ms. Cashier told me (in a very UNfriendly tone) that I couldn’t. I went back to the nice young guy and told him I wanted to talk to the manager, so he asked a female employee who was working in the card aisle to go get the manager. That woman didn’t walk one foot towards the manager’s office as I stood waiting at the other end of the aisle. Finally I returned to the nice young guy and he paged the manager. The manager was a very nice woman — and she readily told me she’d deal with the recalcitrant cashier & the lazy woman in the card aisle. She also took the plastic bags — and she told me they *do* indeed recycle plastic bags (in the storeroom).
Five stars for the manager & the nice young guy and one star for the cashier & card aisle woman=three stars.

Pharmacy is always an absolute clusterfk. Interminable waits while staff hunt for your scrip, checking various piles and computer records. Kind of like the abject horror of the post office. Much slower than the DR next door, but they’re not open as much. The only things I like about this store are the self-​checkouts. Much quicker than the in-​person cashiers. Too bad they can’t use them for the pharmacy…

If you’re having any sort of late night emergency & need to pick up anything from the pharmacy this CVS location is amazing!
The pharmacy, along with the store, are open 24 hours. The pharmacists are extremely attentive and the customer service was exceptional.
This particular location is located right next door to a Duane Reade… talk about friendly competition.

If you show up to pick up your prescription that was electronically transmitted hours earlier, they say «can you wait 15 minutes». If you call to see if its ready, they say it will be ready in an hour.

I have been going to CVS since it was McKay’s way back in the day. In the past 1 – 2 years McKay’s customer service has improved markedly. All of the staff is cordial, greet everyone and ask if you need direct
help. It seems that everyone has been hired for their exceptional customer service which is a major plus with all the competition in the area. I don’t like the self check out but there is one staff assigned to help people like me. They should have just kept staff at the register. They have great sales and extra cash which makes it pretty cheap comparatively. However they run out of items pretty quickly. It may be dated but I have always found it clean.

OMG. I cannot deal with this place! There’s always a million people, the aisles are too narrow, and it’s like a freaking traffic jam! Maybe this is a typical NY CVS, but if so then I’m glad I don’t have to use it on a regular basis. Also, I noticed it’s more expensive than my local CVS in Arlington VA, which I guess makes sense given that it’s in NY after all, but it still rubs me the wrong way. Maybe if CVS had leased an adequate amount of space (ie double) it would be acceptable. It’s gets two stars for being open 24 hours.

They develop 35 mm film, so that’s a huge plus. The only other places you can get 35 mm developed that I know of are at photo labs which charge up the wazoo.
Their 35 mm scans (and subsequently prints) tend to be pretty bad though: discolored, lo-​res, with random lines through them… I always get develop only and use my own film scanner. I’ve had no problems with their developing, though.
Also, you can’t drop off film when the photo lab isn’t open, because the regular employees don’t know how to ring it up and won’t let you leave it. It’s pretty annoying if you’ve already made the trip out there.

I do not like CVS and especially this one. It’s uninviting compared to its neighbor Duane Reade and the the employees just never seem happy.

My favourite CVS!!!

This CVS location is close to my work and it’s open 24 – 7. I actually like the self check out. Don’t like to deal with the employees if I don’t have to. Specially not at 3 in the morning. They have 6 check out machines /​computers however you call them and usually they all work which is great! And there is almost never a line. In and out in a few minutes.
The bad thing is that it’s not well stocked. Few times I haven’t found what I was looking for. /​something common that every pharmacy has/​
And it’s not really clean, specially compare to super clean and shiny Duane Reade next door.
But somehow I always end up here, not next door.

How does CVS compete with the now awesome Duane Reade? Lower their labor costs by hiring less people and paying them less (I assume). And it shows in their crummy service (this, I know).
I had my doctor call in a prescription, which I came in for the next day. After five minutes the pharmacists said it was no where to be found and promised they had checked absolutely everywhere. I politely asked them again, me being pretty sure it had been called into this location and they promised they knew what they were doing. Low and behold when I managed to get in touch with the doctor’s office on a holiday weekend, it had been called in and they were able to find it. They were apologetic, but not after 40 minutes had been lost for no good reason.
Additionally, this CVS is gnarly, dirty, and disorganized. They have self check out counters and very few folks working here. If you need something and they have it you’ll probably pay less than the Duane Reade next store, but overall I’d just skip this place.

I know what your thinking who on earth would write a review for a chain pharmacy? What loser would take the time of day? but boredom on the bus got to me, and after cashing in on a completely free candy bar from them I might as well amuse myself by writing my thoughts on an effing pharmacy.
Nothing is more annoying then those self check outs. Seriously are we getting paid to work there. I am a customer NOT an employee. That all aside I still find myself coming here even though the Duane Reade is right next door is twice as nice, twice the size big and actually has employees working there instead of just standing around and staring at you while your doing the work there supposed to be doing.
Anywho I come here because they have the 99 cent Arnold palmers and Jack Nicklaus lemonades of which I’ve grown quite fond of, the L. Frances caramels which I have become addicted to and the main attraction; a full blown Dolla section. None of these things exist at Duane Reade. just wanted to point that out

Meh, it’s a CVS, so I don’t expect much nor do I come here for much. Basically, toothpaste, soap and maybe the occasional sandwich. Bwahahahaha. Just kidding about the sandwich. I bought my second package of dental floss ever in my entire life here, so there’s that. I do enjoy the fact that there is a self check out, so I don’t have to talk to anyone while in there.
Like a bandaid, I recommend holding your breath and letting ‘er rip!

I have to give this pharmacy an «A-​OK» because they’re 24 hours; even the pharmacy I prefer, that’s close to me, isn’t 24 hours. When I was in severe pain post-​surgery last January, with scrip in hand, this was the only place nearby I could go to get it filled late at night.
So I’ll go here – and I like the self-​checkout. I’ll still go to my neighborhood pharmacy first if it’s open, but sometimes you need a 24-​hour place.

Store #2557, serving Stuyvesant Town in New York City this CVS is open ²⁴⁄₇. Prior to my Saturday open-​mic poetry reading, which was to be my poet husband’s feature performance, I needed to replinish my body with vitamin water yet disappointedly this CVS location NEVER carries Glacéau vitamin water products in stock.
Impressively this CVS has self check-​out counters as it’s the first CVS I’ve seen with staff verbally shouting instructions to patrons. I rate this CVS four stars as it’s out dated with dark dinge lighting, stock disorganized, and disgruntled staff who are not friendly or warm to make mundane chore/​tasks for patrons pleasant.
As per their web site this CVS’s correct address and phone number listing is:
253 First Avenue
New York, NY 10 003
(212) 254‑1454