Walgreens

Went to Walgreens on New Years. Jose was working the counter and was incredibly nice and really helpful. Definitely coming back. Thanks Jose!

I am a transfer student at Tisch and live one block away from this walgreens so its the obvious place for me to pick up my prescriptions. I barely have enough time to pick up prescriptions with my workload from tisch let alone deal with a problematic pharmacy. I have had three separate occasions with them that have been quite horrible. My first encounter with this walgreens was when I ran out of nexium. I waited for ten minutes in the line, after calling them to see if I could pick it up there, only to have them tell me they need a new prescription to fill it. They would not call my doctors to get this new prescription even though it is the normal way to get a refill for a medication like this. I ended up going to another pharmacy who gave me one box from the shelf to hold me over until I could get a script. My second encounter I had my doctors office call in a refill for my dycigles. I received a call that night saying my prescription had been filled and was waiting for me. I came in the next day to pick up my prescription only to have the pharmacist tell me they don’t have it and they sent me to Union Square to pick it up without even asking me if I didn’t mind it being sent elsewhere. This third encounter I needed to transfer my prescription of xanax which I have done many times through multiple pharmacies including walgreens. I waited while the woman spent around 5 minutes with a customer and took three different calls at the same time making my wait time around ten minutes. I had called the pharmacy prior to arriving to see if it could be transferred and I was told yes. After waiting for ten minutes the woman moves over to another counter with the first woman waiting at her counter and informs me that no this walgreens will not transfer a prescription for xanax, take a script from the doctor over the phone, or any other way than me coming in with a new script for xanax which I obviously can’t do because my doctor who prescribes this is in Texas. She spoke to me like a little child telling me I need to come back with a physical script.

As far as Walgreens go this one is decent and I’ve always had good service. However for some reason every time I’ve been in the last year the entrance from the door up to the escalators stinks of garbage. It’s near a refrigerated section so can’t be sanitary. They really should do something about the odor. If there was a closer location I would use it, but the Walgreens at Union sq has inferior service in my opinion.

Been here many times to pick up photos and always a pleasant visit. Staff is attentive and helpful. Needed to rush a photo order once and it was ready in the five minutes it took to walk to the store.

I needed pain medication for a recent surgery I had and I had a terrible experience with this pharmacy. First they told me they could fill two of my prescriptions, I wait for them to fill it, and they only fill one. Go in to pick up the other one the next morning and they didn’t have it and said it would be ready at 2pm. Went back after 2, and they said they wouldn’t have it filled till the next day after 2pm. So then they transferred it to another location that could fill it. Why they didn’t do that in the first place doesn’t make sense to me. Now I’m sitting in lots of pain waiting another half hour for it to be filled. And at no point did they apologize for any miscommunication or disservice.

Walgreens on Astor is a womb from which I’m finding it hard to deliver myself. Its seriously warm in here –the perfect temperature! How do they do it?! I mean its a huge open space. the heating bills must be astronomical~ Its also clean, bright, and well-​stocked. Well laid-​out and even attractive (never thought I’d say that about a WG). Staff are friendly and helpful. And I usually manage to find at least one thing I didn’t realize I needed. Finally, a Redbox kiosk is available by the entrance for those preferring their wombs home-​made on these frigid November nights. I’d venture to say that WG on Astor Place is probably the best one in all of NYC as I find myself trekking amongst various haunts between gvil and evil.
Ok. now, sufficiently warmed, friends await and I’m saddened to say its time to deliver myself back out into the cold, dark world. yikes ~_~

This Walgreen is slightly cleaner… has the same stuff as any other Walgreens… I choose Walgreen over other pharmacies due to the fact there is more Walgreens located in local areas… plus you get points every time you use your Walgreen card when you purchase any items in Walgreens… I came here looking for a certain product… for some reason I couldn’t get my point across… When I can’t get my point across to a stupid person I do the TSO… Tilt your head… Smile and say Ok… because what’s the point… there was alots of shoppers and I came here around ten pm… low on staff… the store is extremely bright for some reason… gave me a headache… great thing about this place is open ²⁴⁄₇!

Boycott Walgreens! They took my honeymoon photos and lost them! I used film because we were in Vieques at the Bioluminescent Bay and my friend let me borrow his reusable underwater camera. We brought the film to this Walgreens and when I came back, they told me that my receipt # was not in their system! How can they just lose something like this! These jerks are so incompetent and then they tell me that there is nothing that I can do. Well I took their names and lodged a formal complaint! Their manager is awful!

A pretty decent Walgreens with a good location. Just popped in early one morning to grab something and had no problems.

This walgreens was very supplemental and pleasing. The service was fine. I just wish you had the arizona mango iced tea but i got the arizona mango drink which was fine. (don’t mind my opinion on the arizona mango iced tea thing i just needed to get that out there!)

DO NOT COME HERE FOR PHOTOS. As far as regular convenience stores go, this is fine aside from the consistently long line. But the photo department is awful. Save yourself the trouble and go the to CVS on university and 8^th.
The people who work here are very nice and I don’t hold them to fault, but this department is a mess. It’s in the dingy corner of the basement and it always takes a while to get someone to help you. I dropped off a disposable camera to be developed on a Thursday evening that I needed to have for Friday morning at 9am. I was told the photos would be ready before 10pm that night. I asked if I could pick them up at 8:30am the next morning and was told that would be just fine. The next morning I had just enough time to grab the photos and get to class, but when I showed up at 8:30, not only had my photos not been printed, but it would be at least 25 minutes before they could start printing them because the machines needed to warm up. So I didn’t have my assignment for class in on time. I went back about 2 hours later to pick them up so I could at least give them to my professor and the photos had obviously been rushed (which I understand because I the guy was trying to help me out, but still sucked) and so my photos were warped. On top of all that, I still had to pay the full $ 14 for the photo developing even though I was told at first that I could get a discount since they has messed up about the pickup time.
Another time I came to get a digital print. First the machine wasn’t connected to the printer, then there was some sort of internal error that the technician didn’t know how to fix. Finally, it was taking so long that I had to leave without my photo because I was going to be late. Wildly unpleasant.

I was going to go to the Walgreens on Union Square today when I realized there was a closer one on Astor Place. I specifically needed their brand of contact lens cleaner – and have put off getting it for months – since Mira-​Flo™ has been discontinued and I have these hybrid lenses that need daily cleaner.
The staff is very helpful and a few people there asked me if I had what I wanted. Yeah, I got what I wanted.
I’m all about 24-​hour pharmacies; although the prescription center near me where I usually get my meds closes in the early evening, I’ve been known to trek over to a 24-​hour place if I was particularly in need – like the time a couple of years ago I broke my wrist and after I had it set I desperately needed the narcotics I was allowed to get only one vial of.
One thing that pleases me: nobody asked me if I wanted a flu shot.

There Frozen Chicken Cheese Quesadillas SUCK !!!
You cant find the chicken… it is mostly cheap cheese …

The pharmacy counter is usually above average when it comes to customer service. There is usually a wait of no longer than 5 minutes every time I’ve been here. Plus, the folks behind the pharmacy counter are pretty nice. Besides a solid pharmacy, this location tends to have a sale on either tp or shampoo/​conditioner, which is a huge plus in my book. I hate living in Manhattan and having to buy overpriced tp (or everything else for that matter) so this def helps.

Blah, I came here at like 7pm on a Sunday night only to find out the pharmacy closes at 6pm. Had to make another trip the next day to get my prescriptions.

Early 2013 will partly be remembered as one of the big «Flu epidemics» of the decade. Over 45 States have been infected at this point and as you can imagine, there’s been a run on the flu vaccine. After hunting around several pharmacies in the area, I finally found this Walgreens that still had some vaccine in stock.
Heading over to the pharmacy area, I was greeted by a young Pharmacy Student who was super efficient and pleasant despite the huge crowd she was dealing with. There was a combination of folks waiting for prescriptions (and doing so in a fairly surly fashion) while others waited for vaccine shots. After taking down my information quickly, she had my vaccination form printed out in five minutes and I was given a spot to wait on line.
I had about five people in front of me on line, so I thought I’d settle in with my iPad and do some reading. By the time I took my jacket off and removed my iPad from my bookbag, I was already being called! I sat down and the beleaguered tech who was giving the shots gave me the usual questioning which included «Are you allergic to eggs?». I saw she needed to smile so I said «Not that I know if, and if I am I just ate the wrong thing for brunch.» This made her laugh and she brightened considerably as she gave me my shot. In no time, she had a band aid on and I was off to the races.
I was really amazed how fast I got in and out for this shot. The staff was efficient and friendly which I really appreciated.

Clean, well organized and 24 hours, plus they have a Red Box machine. Unusually good for a downtown drugstore.

This was our go-​to place for drinks, snacks, and other necessities while we were staying in NYC for NYE since it was a few blocks away from our apartment. I might sound silly, but this Walgreens location goes above and beyond what I’m used to in the DMV (DC/​Maryland/​VA) area! It consists of two floors and even had carts that were rollable to allow for easy shopping throughout the store.
The first floor was filled with snacks, fridges full of drinks and food, candy, and fresh ready-​to-​go foods, plus a huge beauty section which consumes half the store! The second floor was the pharmacy, but it was like a GNC + Vitamin Store + CVS combined. There were just rows and rows of medicine, supplements, vitamins, and everything else you can think of!
They’re also open 24 hours, which is super convenient for those who need something at an odd hour!

They’re open 24-​hours.
Customer service rocks.
If you need an air mattress, they’ve got those, too.

Maybe its a three star place… but I give an extra star because they are always open. I like to get snacks for the office late nights from Walgreens.
They have a new prepared foods section. They also have a frozen foods section. And of course they have pharmacy stuff. The best deal is the $ 1 travel toothbrush kits, with toothpaste, toothbrush and floss.
What always gets to me is the fact that the night cashier’s name tag says her name is Candida. Exactly… Its not lost on me that the girl at the drug store is named after yeast. Talk about suggestive marketing and product placement at the register… you can’t make this stuff up.