Cvs Pharmacy

They recently moved across the street but I couldn’t find the new location on here. The entrance to the new location is so ridiculously steep that all you can hear while you’re in the parking lot is the sound of metal and plastic scraping on concrete every time someone pulls in or out at the exit/​entrance in front of the store. I drive behind the building to use the other entrance and save my beautiful aging car from leaving a piece of herself behind on the sidewalk. It’s called dignity.
Once inside, forget about that dignity! The store is nice and bright and new and there’s even a weird tracker thing that goes off if you happen to be a person looking in the cosmetics section. No, I won’t steal this $ 7.00 tube of concealer and no I do not need an associate to assist me/​watch me to make sure I’m not stealing. Are you an embarrassed teenager looking for condoms? Hunt down an associate and have them unlock the huge case of family planning items right in the middle of everything so we can all see you swearing off safe sex forever because holy shit who wants to do that just to buy condoms?! It’s difficult to steal concealer and to purchase condoms from this CVS, good to know.
Jebus help you if you get your prescriptions re-​filled there (I do, and I need that help I was talking about every time I go there) because it seems like no matter if you’re second or eighth in line, you’ll be there for a half hour at least waiting to get wrung up — that’s if they have it ready for you when they said they would. Lynn is a city with a lot of interesting characters and you’ll see them all in line at the pharmacy counter and probably know about every medication or ailment they suffer from because of the complete lack of discretion the people who work there have with your prescription information. Once during a 30 minute trip through a five-​person deep pharmacy line, I watched a painfully thin, drug-​ravaged woman sleeping in a chair with her gaping maw drooling all over her Northface jacket only to be woken up by a kid in a white coat with a fistful of clean needles to bestow upon her and the also the BACTRIM FOR YOUR UTI WILL BE FILLED IN 30 MINUTES MA’AM. She went back to sleep clutching the needles. I’d switch my prescriptions Rite Aid if it didn’t look like it could go out of business any second.

This place is always dirty. The shelves and the lack of space give you claustrophobia… but a 24 hour CVS is essential in Lynn. No matter what time I am coming by, I can stop in and grab some protein bars or a Monster Energy Drink.
Some of the employees are a bit rough around the edges, but so are the customers that come in and give them a hard time.
It may be more grungy than the ones in Peabody or Danvers, but I feel at home here.

i’ve always preferred CVS over other pharmacies, i guess i like the extra bucks and stuff like that. but i HAD to Unilocal about this branch because they are some RUDE ass people there.
one time, i was dropping off a script maybe 20 minutes before the pharmacy closed. i didn’t need it until later, just wanted to drop it off. i handed her the script and also had an insurance question. what did she say? «ugh, i don’t even have time for this. i shouldn’t even be working, i put in 6 hours of overtime this week, blah blah blah.» so she decided simply not to address my question! did she really have to complain to a customer about working? sooo unprofessional. i was really annoyed.
another time (couple days ago), i was trying to return something. i had a receipt, but it was over a year old. i figured that maybe they could give me store credit at least. the guy at the register called over this girl to authorize the return, she looked at the receipt, and with the most obnoxious attitude, she said, «this is over a YEAR old, i can’t DO this.» but really, imagine the most rude attitude in her voice. well, jeez– she could have just said, «sorry, the receipt is too old” — the attitude was SO unnecessary, it wasn’t a big deal, why the attitude?