Cvs/Pharmacy

I had to get some acne facewash — a few weeks of visiting my family had given me some major stress break outs, so I headed to this CVS. It’s near my mom’s house; and I could get my CVS points (I love coupons!). Wow, was this different than the CVS near my house in El Cajon — I initially thought the clerks (2 of them, both late teens) were conducting a transaction with another young woman of approximately the same age. Nope! Not at all. They were socializing and discussing when their paychecks would be available. Not only that, while I stood in line waiting for them to tie this up, I got to hear about a compelling range of topics including: one clerk’s scratch and sniff panties (I swear I am not making this up); another girl they went/​go to high school with who has VD; and whether or not this same said girl participates in certain acts of non-​traditional intimacy. Now, I’m not a prude by any means, but really!!! Seriously??? I’m going to stand in line for 5 minutes while you discuss this within hearing of customers (that you are ignoring as you socialize with an off-​duty co-​worker). One of the girls must have finally felt the poison daggers my eyes were sending her, because she grudgingly opened a register.
I’m only giving them 2 stars because, as Mike R. noted, they’re convenient. Hopefully the management sees this and has a chatty with his late teen/​early 20’s female clerks, because this wasn’t appropriate in any way, shape or form.

God, I hate these soulless tributes to corporate cookie cutter profits. The look, smell and general cheesy temporariness of these dumps makes my skin crawl, yet like AssMart, they thrive and are full of drones. Although its not the drones fault since the corporate devil has crushed any and all small competetion and there is nowhere else to go, hence my reluctant visit. What stuns/​frightens me is to see people actually walking around with shopping carts in here. I mean wtf? I mean it has the worst selection of over priced crap anywhere and this is where you stock up? I just had to get one thing and of course get behind the lady with the carriage of 67 small items. Seeing the clock stand still, at least another clerk opened a register to help the rest of us victims. The lady in front of me had a beach chair but it scanned the wrong price, the clerk just shrugged her shoulders and the woman wisely just left it there rather than argue with the underpaid robot who couldn’t care less. I was actually glad the lady was intuitive enough not to go down that path and buy her chair somewhere else, since I got out of the place faster.
I gave this craphole 2 stars only because they had the thing I needed and I was out fairly quickly. It just aggravates me that this cinderblock and plastic symbol of decline replaced a nice, neighborhood drug store with nice people, good service and a warm, comfortable store. I am forced to go to a place that is none of those things.