Walgreens

This Walgrens isn’t as busy as others, I could leisurely shop with no stress, or be able to get my items and go. You may not find everything you need, but they have a good amount of things.
I mostly came here for the photo services. Had sent some photos via my iPhone to their Photo Department and they we’re ready to pick up in an hour. Walgreens photo app makes it soo easier and convenient printing photos.
The register lines are average but the speed mainly depends on the intelligence of the customer. The store is clean and organized. Don’t forget to sign up for discounts and deals. If you are not a member.
I will be deffinitely be making a trek out here again.

Employees are not friendly. Here I ended up greeting the employee first and asked for help. They don’t greet you or offer help. When I came to shop at this place there a few people walking in the store but there were more people at checkout line with two cashiers. They worked so slow. Their front door area were dirty and homeless person waiting. Gummy are everywhere on the ground. Please clean them up.

I came to use there photo service! I ordered online and just came to pick up! Great deal. This location is disorganized but I’m not sure if it’s because it was nearly towards the end of the day but either way. They offer a pharmacy with a drive thru. Friendly cashiers but as I asked for help to find something the gal at the makeup counter wasn’t helpful at all is the reason I’m knocking down one star.

This review is for the pharmacy only. The rest of the drugstore is okay… slightly disorganized, but the cashiers are usually friendly and very service-​oriented despite how hectic it can get in there (kudos for that).
Ok, the pharmacy review. Wow. Abomination. A really tragic excuse for a pharmacy and pharmacist. Here’s some thoughts on why my opinion is that way:
I found the pharmacist to have complete unawareness about patient and people sensitivity. Examples of what occurred: 1) she calls my OBGYN doctor to confirm my prescription and has the entire call VERY LOUDLY projecting on the speaker phone. Yes, everyone in the store now knows which doctor specifically I go to, what my full name is, my date of birth, and my prescription order. It didn’t seem to be in line with normal pharmacy/​pharmacist protocol around patient sensitivity. 2) I’m having the prescription filled for a very sensitive procedure and situation. It’s been one that’s had me in tears a great part of the past couple of weeks. The pharmacist then proceeds to explain to me why she’s calling in a very loud voice announcing that she wanted to make sure that I had the right dosage of pills to put into my VAGINA. Let me stress that she loudly repeated that over and over — I wanted to punch her (but I did not). 3) The doctor wrote EXPLICITLY on the prescription order how many milligrams she wanted me to have = 200MG to be exact. The pharmacist calls to confirm and plans to fill the order for 400MGs after speaking with another doctor that is on call at the time.
I didn’t like the way this was going, so I asked her to hand me my prescription order and that I wanted to go elsewhere. Which she did — gave me my prescription orders back and elsewhere I went as quickly as I could (never to return).
— — — — — — — –
Off I go down the street to the next pharmacy my eyes can spot — Safeway. The Safeway pharmacist by stark huge comparison demonstrates everything Walgreen’s incompetent pharmacist did not. Vastly different — in a very good way. Professionalism. He had to enter my information since I had never been to Safeway for my pharmacy needs. He asks me quietly to the side to enter in my information discreetly so that those standing in line could not hear us. 20 minutes later, I get my prescription order filled. He quietly explains the medication to me. Again, no one standing in line behind me could hear us. He even gets slightly shy about having to say the word vagina. Dudes, I’d rather have the pharmacist (Safeway) with a slight case of modesty than one with the foot in mouth disease (Walgreens).
— — — — — — — — -
I reach out to my doctor again anyways on my prescription order. My doctor calls me (less than 24 hours later) to confirm that I should only take 200MG, not the 400MG. Thank goodness I checked.
So in summary, I question the professionalism. I question the sensitivity of the pharmacist in knowing how to deal with people or patients (it’s not usually happy bouncing healthy people that are going to the pharmacist to get prescriptions filled). I question her ability to read prescription orders.
If you have an important pharmacy need, I would probably avoid going here. Run, far far far away. Don’t risk your life here.

Let me just say that the pharmacy is horrible. My baby cousin has better manners than the people manning the front desk.

Their pharmacy sucks! They have no customer service what so ever. You can stand in line or sit in you car for fifteen minutes on a daily basis. They only have two people on duty and one of those is making up orders. So you have one person waiting both the inside counter as well as the drive up. They can’t help it if Walgreens is to cheap to hire a two more employees!!!
The Rainer and Genesee Walgreens

Walgreens pharmacy there has a wireless customer surface on the planet please if you need to refill descriptions to speak a customer service you need a big Jott coffee or have a plenty time at least to two hours or more speak with the pharmacy and believable why would they don’t care about the customer I do have a bigger problem with this pharmacies and I’m trying to switch over with a different pharmacies better customer service I don’t recommend anybody to call for Refill medications or try to speak to that pharmacy stuff please don’t try what the hell I don’t even know why would they have a voicemail they should take it off they should be more honest to tell the customer do not use phone to call to speak the pharmacies bad bad bad

this place is always busy. they seem to have pretty much everything. lots of parking. it’s the closest mega-​drugstore to our house, so i’ll be going there a lot as long as i’m here.
pretty much gotta have the reward card thing or else you’re overpaying for a lot.

Slowest. Walgreens. Ever. I needed to pick up two small items and figured Walgreens would be way faster than driving a little further down the road to the Safeway. Holy crap was I wrong! I spent 30 minutes waiting in line. The cashier was super friendly and nice but was crazy slow. She tried to get another cashier up a few times as the line grew and grew but it was a good 15 minutes into waiting before the guy arrived to help. I probably could have left, driven to Safeway and gotten out of there before I actually finished up here. This is my only experience here but I’ll not being wasting any more time here.
Not a fan.

Besides the great reward deals on cosmetics and home supplies. I hate the pharmacy. Why did it have to take 6 hours to respond to my prescription request and then tell me they do not take medco.
My nurse voicemailed in a prescription for me at 10:30 am, I call at 11:30 am to check in the status. They have not yet received it. I called my nurse and confirmed its been transferred. I show up a few hours later to drop of my medco info and see if I can pick it up. They told me they would call me as soon as it is ready, about an hour. 3 hours later I Called them, and they told me they do not take medco. Wtf!
I needed antibiotics, I’m not feeling well. There is no sense of urgency. Pharmacies like these are killing there patients. I’m extremely upset with their service.

Don’t waste your time! Expect a long wait if you go in to the store and errors in filling prescriptions.

This walgreens is okay, just like any other walgreens its cluttered and you have to wait a while for your prescription. But this location is fine, its usually always stocked with everything. I love walgreens and I’m a regular for prescriptions and holiday cards and gifts every now and then. This location is located kinda in a sketchy area so be weary of yourself!

Why, oh why do I insist on coming here when we have Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree in TX?!? I seem to forget and obviously enjoy flushing my hard earned moolah down the drain. Save your cash and find a Dollar store.

A convenient store for the neighborhood, and the long hours give nice flexibility for different customers’ schedules. I usually go later in the evening, and there are usually a few people hanging around the entrance and throughout the parking lot, so be careful. The cashiers and other employees are usually very friendly though, and willing to strike up small talk. Though one time two workers were talking about getting wasted the night before…

There’s not much that sets this Walgreens apart from any other Walgreens. I have to say, though, that a couple of the checkout folks are REALLY super friendly. I’ve had fun conversations with several of them, which is surprising, as usually drugstore staff might as well be robotic drones.
However, there has been a few times when the lines are just way too long, and no one comes out to help the poor lonely single checkout person. Eek. I usually just find some excuse to continue shopping.
Oh, also, there’s a Redbox at this location.

Sometimes this place is really great, helpful staff, well stocked, easy to find items and great pharmacy staff.
Sometimes, in the alternate universe called every other day, it’s none of those things.
I can’t figure why sometimes so great, sometimes not, but I go in hopeful each time and the fact I keep coming back– photo processing is convenient, cheap and consistant– shows I must like it enough.

It’s the typical Walgreens but this Columbia City location is nice because there’s really no other full service drugstore close by.
One thing I like about this location is the greeting cards. Whoever is in charge of buying the greeting cards for this location gets kudos. They haven’t just filled the racks with mundane, run-​of-​the-​mill sappy vanilla Hallmark cards, they’ve also added some alternative and edgy cards for those of us who want to express ourselves a little more creatively or colorfully. THANK YOU greeting card purchaser.

Please travel about 2 more minutes north on Rainier Avenue instead of coming here. There you will find a beautiful and well-​staffed Bartells which will make you happier than this store will.
I used to come here before the Bartells. I was disappointed every time, whether it was about the slow-​moving retail staff, the cramped feeling I got about their inventory, the sketchy youths [insert My Cousin Vinny voice here] that hang out interminably at that bus stop on Genesee, etc.
The last straw was when I was purposely bumped into (not gently) by two teens who were exiting as I was entering. They shouted at ME, even. I raised my voice to them and moved on along inside the store so as to not waste my time any longer. Their security guard dude was *right there* 5 feet inside the store. He apparently could not help me at all since he was busy chit chatting with the check out clerk.