I went to Walgreens for my first and second round of covid vaccines. Each visit was an absolute shit show. First shot I had to wait a half hour for someone to give it to me. The line of customers in store and at the drive thru was constant, and there were only two people working. Second shot, same situation, and I waited an hour and a half. When the pharmacist finally called me in and saw what time my appointment was for, she said “well I wouldn’t have waited.” Motherfuck, you think I’m trying to die of covid?
Since then I’ve gotten my boosters at CVS. It’s directly across the street and it’s where I have all my prescriptions. The least amount of people I’ve seen working in the pharmacy is four. Usually it’s six. There may be a car or two ahead if I try to use the drive thru, if so, I’ll just walk in because there is almost never a line inside.
I 100% support these workers walking out. Fuck Walgreens. That place has always been nasty and run down, even the new ones.
I completely understand hating Walgreens, but I would like to point out that CVS is worse in nearly every way possible. If you have a choice, a local pharmacy would be a better option if you’re looking for somewhere with ethics and a fast turn around.
CVS owns their own prescription coverage company, CVS CareMark, and their own health insurance company, Aetna. If you are unfortunate enough to be given this coverage by your employer, they will deny everything all the time. They will require you get your prescriptions through CVS. If CVS does not carry the medication you need, they will simply refuse to pay for it. For example, medication my daughter needed for her kidneys to function properly, CVS only carried adult doses and not pediatric ones. I spent two years arguing with them and got about 6 months of it paid for in the end. In the meantime, I just spent thousands out of pocket because my daughter needs kidneys.
Granted, that’s anecdotal. But feel free to just Google CareMark or Aetna and see the numerous lawsuits for gouging and mismanagement, the complaints over inability to get them to cover things that should be covered, the BBB complaints about wrong prescriptions and wrong amounts.
CVS is my personal devil. I hate them more than any other company in the world. I hate them in a preoccupied, obsessive kind of way. Please go local if possible.
Not to discount or diminish your experience but I’ve had the polar opposite with Aetna/CVS.
Due to unfortunate circumstances my family has had nearly 300 claims via Aetna over the past 24 months with only one hitch that required any legwork on my side. We pick up all our ad hoc prescriptions at the local Walgreens and all of our maintenance meds shipped via an independent provider. Only one script has ever been mandated to go through Caremark and it’s was a specialty drug that ran about $1000 US per daily dose.
Legit had my latest covid shot yesterday at Wallgreens. I was waiting for half an hour and, while waiting, I heard someone talking to a different customer on a phone call. They said they had a backlog of ~600 prescriptions and that they shouldn’t rush to come pick up theirs.
When I finally got into get my shot, they legit had to move garbage bins out of the way… Like literal garbage next to an injection site.
I went to Walgreens for my first and second round of covid vaccines. Each visit was an absolute shit show. First shot I had to wait a half hour for someone to give it to me. The line of customers in store and at the drive thru was constant, and there were only two people working. Second shot, same situation, and I waited an hour and a half. When the pharmacist finally called me in and saw what time my appointment was for, she said “well I wouldn’t have waited.” Motherfuck, you think I’m trying to die of covid?
Since then I’ve gotten my boosters at CVS. It’s directly across the street and it’s where I have all my prescriptions. The least amount of people I’ve seen working in the pharmacy is four. Usually it’s six. There may be a car or two ahead if I try to use the drive thru, if so, I’ll just walk in because there is almost never a line inside.
I 100% support these workers walking out. Fuck Walgreens. That place has always been nasty and run down, even the new ones.
I completely understand hating Walgreens, but I would like to point out that CVS is worse in nearly every way possible. If you have a choice, a local pharmacy would be a better option if you’re looking for somewhere with ethics and a fast turn around.
CVS owns their own prescription coverage company, CVS CareMark, and their own health insurance company, Aetna. If you are unfortunate enough to be given this coverage by your employer, they will deny everything all the time. They will require you get your prescriptions through CVS. If CVS does not carry the medication you need, they will simply refuse to pay for it. For example, medication my daughter needed for her kidneys to function properly, CVS only carried adult doses and not pediatric ones. I spent two years arguing with them and got about 6 months of it paid for in the end. In the meantime, I just spent thousands out of pocket because my daughter needs kidneys.
Granted, that’s anecdotal. But feel free to just Google CareMark or Aetna and see the numerous lawsuits for gouging and mismanagement, the complaints over inability to get them to cover things that should be covered, the BBB complaints about wrong prescriptions and wrong amounts.
CVS is my personal devil. I hate them more than any other company in the world. I hate them in a preoccupied, obsessive kind of way. Please go local if possible.
Not to discount or diminish your experience but I’ve had the polar opposite with Aetna/CVS.
Due to unfortunate circumstances my family has had nearly 300 claims via Aetna over the past 24 months with only one hitch that required any legwork on my side. We pick up all our ad hoc prescriptions at the local Walgreens and all of our maintenance meds shipped via an independent provider. Only one script has ever been mandated to go through Caremark and it’s was a specialty drug that ran about $1000 US per daily dose.
Legit had my latest covid shot yesterday at Wallgreens. I was waiting for half an hour and, while waiting, I heard someone talking to a different customer on a phone call. They said they had a backlog of ~600 prescriptions and that they shouldn’t rush to come pick up theirs.
When I finally got into get my shot, they legit had to move garbage bins out of the way… Like literal garbage next to an injection site.
These workers deserve everything they ask for.