Walgreens

The most expensive Walgreens I’ve ever been to. The prices are pretty high even compared to locations like 23^rd street.
The selections are very limited and I end up not being able to find everything that I want. It’s also pretty funny how they price their store brand product at the price of name brand products and then jack up the name brand by about 20% or more.

Worst pharmacy I’ve been to. Came in for a simple flu shot and they had no idea how to process that request.

I usually love coming here but today the woman behind the counter was so rude. There was an older man in front of me checking out and he couldn’t figure out how to work the touch screen key pad when it was asking him to make a donation so she started yelling at him to «figure it out» and «read carefully». Not impressed.

They generally have what I need plus a bunch more. The store is well kept and the staff is reasonably friendly. They also have amazing specials on some foods, so I generally make a pass through on the way home. You can get cereal for 2 for $ 5 (I think that’s only if you have a rewards card, which is worth getting). Pretty much my go-​to drugstore in the ‘hood.

The layout is good but there is always a line to check out. Usually there’s a door greeter during busy times.

I have had miserable experiences with both the pharmacy and the drugstore itself.
The store has overcharged me multiple times on items. When I have asked about it during the scanning process, I have been told that I will not be charged that amount when the items are totaled. Lo and behold, this is false, and I have had to return at least three times after inspecting the receipt to receive a partial refund.
The pharmacy is likewise incompetent to the point that my doctor has asked me to change stores. A doctor should not have to call in a prescription three times each month. Despite a slightly higher co-​pay, I am changing to a different pharmacy for next month.
In sum: check what you’re being charged and don’t try to get scripts done here.

What I like about this location
1 Fully stocked
2 I can roll outta my bed n land here
What I enthusiastically dislike about this location
1 DOLLAR bananas
2 DOLLAR lemons
3 ‘I C 3′ ALWAYS a line… ALWAYS
4 A ‘greeter’ at the front door. Bro, im in here for toilet paper, sleeping pills, tampons and/​or condoms… Please do not make it a point to speak to me… I want in and out… Please do not even recognize that i am here… If i want to pocket something truusst me i will, even with u staring at me… Im a fucking magician under the camera son.

I have lived a block away from this Walgreens store for almost 5 years now, so I know it well — and I really don’t think that it deserves such a bad rap.
It’s spacious for a Manhattan drugstore and it’s well-​organized. It was also recently renovated. They always have at least one brand of staple items like paper towels and toilet paper on a major sale, which, as a local resident, is great.
Yes, this particular Walgreens is more of a grocery-​drugstore hybrid. I try to buy a lot of my basic groceries here (cereal, snacks, drinks, frozen food, condiments, etc.) because the nearest grocery store, Gracefully, will usually charge 2 – 3 times more for the exact same product. There are a lot of organic/​health food options that you wouldn’t expect to find at Walgreens, but that’s just what the trendy folk are buying these days, no? Personally, I think it’s nice to have an option besides Bob’s Precancerous Cheese Doodles or whatever.
Fact: This store doesn’t have as much of a selection when it comes to basic drugstore products like hand soap and lotion… but really, how many options do you need?! Sometimes when I’m forced to confront an aisle containing 200 varieties of facial cleansers, I just want to scream and run away. If you’re really devoted to a particular product, you’re better off buying it online anyway — it’s cheaper.
Speaking of, one final note — Manhattan drugstore pricing — especially on health/​beauty/​hygiene products — is RIDICULOUSLY inflated. Walgreens, CVS, Duane Reade, or local — doesn’t matter. They all are. I suggest shopping on Amazon and/​or
for as much of that stuff as possible — you will save SO much money and it will remind you what actual retail prices outside of Manhattan look like.

Has to be the slowest check out line in the city! Management take notice! Not sure why no other retail business of any sort I’ve almost ever been to has a line that takes as long but suggest you study Duane Reade down the street which never takes nearly as long. Or automate like CVS. So frustrating.

This Walgreens store has an edge over the others because of its grocery section, particularly the organic aisle. I’ve often stopped by to pick up some snacks, including cashew butter, goat’s milk, honey, etc., for days like today, when the weather prohibits venturing out (darn Stepmother Nature!), and I am forced to stay inside, seeking solace in snacking.
What irks me about all of the Walgreens and Duane Reades stores is the recent policy to accept only cash for the purchase of gift cards. I like to buy gift cards for the doormen at my apartment building, and I often don’t carry large amounts of cumbersome cash. Not a wise idea to needlessly inconvenience customers.

I was hold for a half hour because my prescription required additional information. When the girl finally picked up, she told me my prescription was ready to be picked up. When I asked why I was transferred to speak to a pharmacist and waited a half hour, she hung up on me.
Normally, Walgreens has good service and I like the sales and products they have but today was terrible. Not to mention the fight I witnessed between a worker reading a magazine behind the counter and the customer who called her out on it.
I work in retail so I know the stress of having to deal with irate and unreasonable clientele but I would never be able to get away with the things these workers get away with.

Did you know you can upload your photos online and then pick them up at this Walgreens in like a minute? Awesome service if you want a last minute photo card or to do anything with printed out pictures, so I actually come here for that service alone. The store on a whole is very large and staff is relatively helpful, but the lines are long and they don’t move quickly. This is definitely your one stop shop though if you’re in the neighborhood!

I like this Walgreen’s because of its grocery section. It has a lot of organic/​healthy selections, and it’s great to have that option nearby.

It took this place about a year to finally remodel their store… and while it looks much better than before there is a big problem: the service! I came here today at 11am sick with the flu buying medicine, tea, soup and food. I filled the cart. I bring it up to the register and instead of a «Hi» I get a woman — no make that two cashier women laughing at me because of how much stuff I have? It is a grocery store and guess what I’m buying? It was really rude and unprofessional. Being a cashier sucks I was one once, you make the best of it but you give your customers respect especially if they give it to you. The entire time I am getting rung up the woman is laughing and saying «too mas, LADY! «TU LOCA!» I understood exactly what the woman was saying and doing and it was effing rude: I should have and would have just left with the entire counter & bags filled with my groceries if I hadn’t been so sick. As I left she wished me a nice day: hilarious! I think as a person who works in customer service and who was once a cashier customers should never be treated like this it is an abomination of your establishment! The same thing happened to my sister as she was being rung up along side me it was such an absurd late morning! Both of these women should be fired, their behavior is unacceptable. Needless to say: I am boycotting Walgreens for life! Hello CVS, Duane Reed, Riteaid and the like!

This location is the bane of my existence.
I’m not normally a low-​star reviewer. I like to give companies the benefit of the doubt. But after relying on this place for years and coming up unsatisfied every time, I feel I must protest.
The place is not small. It’s larger than the average bodega and has about half the stuff. Wait, no, sorry — they have lots of things that no one would ever need and a pitifully meager selection of things that people do need. Shampoos, toothpastes, food, non-​prescription pills, etc. will be represented by one or two brands only — so technically they *have* it all, but it’s sparcely stocked compared to Duane Reades and CVS’s. And what they do have is hard to find.
Even worse, although they have about four cash registers, two at the most will be open at any one time, and each checkout person is as slow as the next. The lines wind far down the center aisle, and no matter what the people ahead of you are buying, you’ll be cueing for an absurdly long time.
Which wouldn’t be so bad if the checkout people had an alright attitude. Yes, I know. Working at a Walgreens checkout sucks. Working at any checkout sucks. I’m not looking for them to wipe my arse and then hand me a pillow mint, but a smile once and a while might be nice. What’s more, I lost my key card to Stuy Town once and was 80% sure I had left it at Walgreens. (I hadn’t.) I hurriedly rushed back to talk to the girl who had checked me out, and she was obstinately reluctant to help me in any way. I eventually persuaded her to take my cell phone number, and when I asked if they’d call if it showed up, she just said, «Maybe, I guess», or something along the lines of that. Seriously. Maybe? Lie to me, for all I care; at least that’ll make you look better.
Bottom line… Go to CVS instead. It’s 3 blocks away, 3 times the size, and 3 times more legitimate as a business.

Good thing that they are renovating… this place is a dump.

I like Walgreens. Or any other chain drugstores for that matter. Chain drugstores are typically known to be large and supply a lot in their stock. They carry a lot of random things too. I remember my very first Walgreens experience in Rochester, Michigan; I got some Mexican jumping beans as a novelty pet.
This is probably one of the smaller of the chain stores. It’s a block away from where I live and I come here because of that convenience. They have a small selection (two types of liquid hand soaps???), and the staff there is not as friendly.
What is even more interesting is that they have rented out the space next door, which has been advertising, «expanding to serve you better,» for the past two years or more, but they still stockpile atop the shelving units throughout the store. (See picture.)
Will they ever actually expand their store? Is that space currently used as storage for other things? Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village residents will probably not find out for some time, and the disappointment continues accumulate.

This particular Walgreens is sort of sick drugstore /​organic health food store hybrid with the smallest soap selection imaginable. Talk about catering to your customers (cough, Stuy Town, cough).
But wait. When did Stuy Town residents turn into dirty granola-​crunching hippies? Last I saw, lots of old people are still patrolling the lush grounds in their walkers looking for their glasses and cheap prescription pills.
So Stuy Town Walgreens, get a clue, buy more soap, and staff your pharmacy with some competent employees.