Green Cross Pharmacy

My favorite pharmacy! The Italian family who own and operate are so sweet. I wouldn’t go anywhere else.

Love this place. We visit Boston a few times a year and make sure to stop in every trip! Truly friendly and prompt service every time. My 6 year old made me go back today just to visit with the pharmacist and practice her Italian. A true gem that I look forward to as much as getting my Lobster rolls when I visit Boston!!!

I have been picking up my prescriptions from here every since I was a little kid. My parents are from the north end and my doctor is there too. The owners are the nicest people you will ever meet in your life and I love going there to practice my italian. they have been doing it forever too. and it’s so fast. I would not go anywhere else. I live in revere and i go all the way to the north end and fight for parking just to pick up my prescriptions from them.

while I was compiling my new Unilocal «Retro Boston» list, i went searching for my review of Green Cross. I told myself this charming ol place would be central to that list.
what? scrolling through my list of reviews, i find myself amazed that i have never written about green cross. you see, i’ve been coming here for years… almost exactly one decade, in fact.
i’m certain that it’s been that long, as my first visit turned out to be a tragic week.
my introduction to this special old hole-​in-​the-​wall was to quickly fill a prescription. when my pills were ready and handed to me, i held out my mastercard to a charming old pharmacist. then, i learn that they don’t accept plastic. so, I inform this italian gentleman that i’ll run to a nearby ATM and get some cash. no, he tells me. come back some other time when i had the money. what??? this is my first visit and he’s trusting be to come back another day to pay my $ 30? yup.
as I said before, that was a tragic week. the next day two airliners from Logan struck into the world trade center. It was ⁹⁄₁₁.
so, i didn’t get back for several days. when i did and handed over my cash to the kind proprietor. he didn’t open any ledger. didn’t even ask me my name… though I volunteered it in case they maybe keep track of these things.
amazing
this special place is owned by the italian speaking Giangregorio brothers. two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. stop by and say hello some time and start your decade as a friendly customer

The men that own this pharmacy are so cute! They’re like little old Italian grandfathers straight from Napoli. When I walked in, they were speaking Italian to customes. I felt transported back to Italia! They also stock the pharmacy with all the essentials and will find a product for customers if they don’t have it in or are out of stock. CVS would never do that! Go to Green Cross!

When you walk through the doors of this pharmacy, you are immediately set back in the 1950s. The pharmacists, who also speak Italian, actually know you. You are always greeted with a smile and a genuine hello. You can ask questions without feeling like you are inconveniencing someone. I actually forgot my co-​pay, one time, and the pharacist told me to come back later. I’m SOOOO glad I dont go to CVS anymore. All set with that!

I love this pharmacy! It is a throwback to the good old days of having a local neighborhood drugstore where the pharmacists actually know you.
I was a regular here years ago when I worked in the North End. I was back the other day when walking through the neighborhood a wind gust blew soot in my eyes and I needed to get a contact lens out ASAP. The pharmacist, got me a bottle of saline solution and without my asking, provided me with an open box of tissues and some counter space so I could take the lens out.
It was the same friendly service I remembered. And where else can you practice your Italian than with these pharmacists who still remain bilingual the better to serve the sadly dwindling but still vital Italian community here.
Don’t come here expecting the almost supermarket-​like selection of every item under the sun including food that chain pharmacies carry .
But do come if you want personalized service for real drugstore needs, careful prescription filling and perhaps some genuine TLC from someone who will get to know you.
If I lived in the neighborhood or worked nearby this would be my regular pharmacy to be sure.