Their phamacy staff is rude and nasty, and so is their female evening manager. I had a prescription that is covered by my UHC plan (through Caremark). I have never had a problem using my UHC card anywhere else. I took a prescription to this store. The gal asked for my UHC card and went away to look up the prescription part of the UHC card. The gal came back and said it was all set. I came the next day to pick it up and they asked for my card again and said it was no good. I was furious, they wanted $78 for a prescription that yesterday they said was "all set". I called the phone number on my UHC card to get the prescription info (which is what the Walgreens staff are supposed to do). By that time I had three women yammering at me rudely (who all refused to call UHC to get the prescription info). I could not talk to the UHC people with all this commotion and gave up. I said they could keep their "damned" drugs and demanded the prescription back. The evening store manager (an aggressive brunette woman with big glasses -- I think her name was Amber) called the police and threw me out of the store because I said "damned". She said I was not allowed to talk to her people that way (never mind the fact they were completely failing to do their job calling UHC and trying to rip me off for $78).
I went to CVS further West on Olive, which filled the prescription in 20 minutes with no problem fully covered with $0 copay.
I went back to the Walgreens to show "Amber" that I was right and she was wrong. She physically blocked the store door with another guy, called the police, and was yelling at me. I audio recorded it all, and took a photo of her chasing me out of the store for evidentiary purposes.
Four people in the pharmacy and the evening manager DID NOT DO THEIR JOB -- THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO CALL PROVIDERS TO GET THE PRESCRIPTION INFO IF IT IS NOT ON THE CARD. After the ordeal, I went home, called UHC, and got the coverage info in a few minutes. They were surprised that Walgreens refused to call them and said that is what they are supposed to do. Stores can get this infomation a lot faster because they have direct lines and in some cases database connections and do not have to wade through the mazelike consumer PBX.
I am furious with these people and will sue them for harassment if they bother me again. I will visit the District office in Earth City next week with audio recordings and a photo of the wicked witch evening manager. Their pharmacy people should be disciplined and the evening manager fired. Managers are supposed to solve problems, not abuse customers and call the police.
Actually, I should have had my head examined going to this store, but I thought I would give them a chance. I had stopped going to this store about 3 years ago because when I had a prescription sent there, half the time they bounced it to another Walgreens about 4 miles West on the other side of I-270 without telling me. Nothing like having to go two places when you are sick.
The people who run this store do not have their act together nor do they care. I complained last week because they only stock 1 SKU in 1 shelf space (about 4 units) of belted adult shields (which are required for those who just had a hip replacement and cannot bend over to put on disposable underwear. They were out of them and my wife needed more right away. This store is 5 minutes from my house so it is very convenient. I ended up going to CVS, who has more stock. Walgreens has a wall full of about 15 or more SKU's of disposable underwear that hip replacement people cannot use. Lots of people get hip replacements. Walgreens does not care -- they want to sell the more expensive disposable undies to business people too lazy to do their own laundry. The manager said their was nothing he could do about the inventory levels - which I do NOT believe for one minute.
I hope Walgreens closes this store. read more