Walgreens

Horrible attitude from the cashier. Not only did we have to wait for a good 5 minutes to check out because NO ONE WAS THERE but there was no apology for the wait time either. The guy was a jerk when I asked if he took off an item that wasn’t mine. If it wasn’t my closest location I’d never go back.

Avoid this Walgreens at all cost. There is another location nearby on Ford Parkway in Highland Park, trust me it’s worth the extra distance and here’s why.
The folks that work here are collecting a paycheck at best. I don’t expect everyone to love their job and I fully understand how challenging it can be working in a retail customer service role (I’ve done so for many years). However, there is no excuse for the lack of care, indifference and at times sheer rudeness one will experience here.
The worst thing about this location is by far the pharmacy. Get your prescription elsewhere. Trust me, I’m saving you from having one of the most frustrating experiences of your life. Service is mind numbingly slow and the staff lacks basic communication skills.
Take your business elsewhere if at all possible. You’ll thank me later.

Very busy Walgreens but staff are always friendly and willing to help. I get my prescriptions here and while the wait can be long at times they are always accurate and have medications ready at time they stated.
Cashiers and stocking staff are extra helpful in helping me locate items.

Floor clerk was doing something else, saw me then came into the isle I was in and pretended to adjust an already immaculate shelf. Went to cashier and he greeted me with «yo» after saying «hi», «hello» and «good evening» to everyone else in front of me.

I don’t have to use the pharmacy counter here so this review has nothing to do with filling Rxs. This store at least has some wide aisles and products in logical order. This is a better organized store than the usual cluttered Walgreens in other parts of town. The employees all seem to have a glazed eye look and seem to be conveying in their body language, «there has to be a better life.» Needless to say check out was fairly speedy and it seems most people I’ve seen come here to buy candy (and they have a huge selection) and cigs. Of course Walgreens talk health and wellness all the time. When you exit use your urban smarts and scan the parking lot, walk straight to your vehicle or head right to the sidewalk and look straight ahead. Why does living in the city have to be this way?

This is the WORST Walgreens in town. Avoid it like the plague.
Every time I go there, I get sized up in the parking lot by creepy dudes in cars while walking in. They never have the product I’m looking for, and there is a huge checkout line at the door with not enough people running the register.
Last time I waited inline behind a lady who was clearly on some kind of terrible drug. She was scratching and couldn’t stand still. She also was paying with a handful of coins. Not to mention the sad looking homeless guy camped out at the front door.
It is seriously not safe to bring kids to this Walgreens, and I would STRONGLY recommend that women do NOT go here alone, and that you do not frequent this place after dark. It seems like it wouldn’t be that bad, but somehow it is.
I suspect the odd clientele in the fairly nice neighborhood has something to do with it being on Hiawatha and being right at a Lightrail stop. Just drive up 46^th a bit further into Highland Park, St. Paul and you will find a very nice, well-​light, not terrifying Walgreens in which you can grab a few essentials.

If you want to be shamed for your ailment and the prescription your doc gives you to treat it, dear diary, you hit the jackpot! I’m pretty sure every single employee here wants to eat a gun. I don’t blame them but I don’t feel like I should suffer for their poor choice in employment.

I haven’t been there for a prescription, but I recently stopped in to purchase some goodies. I found the store to be 1) really clean; 2) well stocked; and 3) have friendly staff. And regarding my third point, the day I stopped in, I totally had a brain fart of some sort and couldn’t find simple things like scissors, face wipes, and thank you cards. Despite the aisles being labeled, I asked one person three questions as to where things were located and he didn’t give me any dirty glares. That’s always a plus.
Maybe I’m just a fan of Walgreens in general, but I can attest that I had a solid experience!

Just called ahead the Walgreen’s on Hiawatha. Spoke to some dude at about 10:30p who said that if we brought in our photos in .jpg form on a thumbdrive then we could print them at the kiosk there. We were expecting difficulties because they are our passport photos and they need to be exactly 2×2 inches. Trying to order via their website only allows for more standard photo sizes. He assured us we could print 2×2’s in the store at the kiosk. I explicitly asked him if we could come in later tonight to print them. He said «Yeah, later, anytime. It’s just an automated kiosk». So we get our shit together and go. When we get there the machines are barely functional, fucking up constantly. We ask to see a manager. We wait 15 – 20 mins to see the manager. The manager informs us that nothing in the photo center, kiosks included, work after 10:30. We told the manager of our conversation with Employee of the Month over the phone, about him saying we could come in anytime this evening, and this manager says «Well, it was the end of their shift and they were probably just saying that, cause, you know…» and I said «no, I don’t know. I don’t know why you would just say that». She basically says there’s nothing she can do about it, and if we want we can talk to a different manager tomorrow.
Whoever said customer service was dead?!

The only time I go here is when it’s 2 a.m. and I have no other option. Even at 2 a.m. I consider driving further so that I don’t have to go to this armpit of the pharmacy universe. The pharm techs interrupt and are rude. The only possible explanation for the long lines is that the cashiers are most likely high. In their defense, if I worked here, I’d have to get high in order to go to work too. I just transferred all my prescriptions elsewhere. Good-​bye Walgreens. You’re the worst.

I am SO ready to find another pharmacy. I expect a problem every time I refill a prescription here. They call my dr. s office to refill prescriptions that are long expired and somehow miss the new ones just sent in but my doctor. The line (in-​store or drive-​in) is always painfully long and they are always understaffed (and the managers just wonder around and never stop to play catch-​up at any of the open registers). And I HATE the new balance reward membership bullshit. You can’t have ANYTHING at the sale price unless you give them all your personal info. NOT gonna happen guys. All I can really say is… CVS, here I come.

If the zombie apocalypse is upon us and every other Walgreens and CVS has been overrun, I would consider shopping at this Walgreens. But only then. If you have a prescription to fill, make sure to bring a novel (a long one) and also food for whatever meal is in a couple of hours. You will be waiting. And waiting.
Speaking of waiting, be prepared to wait in line for any item for a long time. I’ve found that repeatedly punching myself in the face keeps me awake enough to not fall asleep while watching the painfully slow cashier who is overwhelmed by being the only person working, apart from a few managers who wander around aimlessly.
Please just go across the river to the Highland Park Walgreens. Even though they’re a mile apart, the service is far, far better in St. Paul.

At 10:00 p.m. on a Monday night, there was a mentally ill fellow outside the door hollering at the incoming customers. In the pharmacy, there was a woman waiting in the area who was ill enough to require an ambulance.
Then there’s the really, really icky part: When I went through the cashier line, the nice cashier lady told me that I couldn’t get the sales price on a SINGLE STORE ITEM unless I was registered with their «Rewards Balance» program. In other words, to save four bucks, I would have had to divulge all my personal information. Worth four bucks? I think not, and the cashier basically agreed it was an intrusive and repugnant policy.
Good bye forever, Walgreens.

Sadly, no sign of the elusive «Couger» as mentioned in Laura’s review. :’(

I don’t get my drugs here, so I love this place. Its close enough to our house that we can justify one a.m. Arizona Arnold Palmer 99cErs. Seriously, this review goes out to Arizona. The Arnold Palmer is the best drink you can buy for 99 cents, hands down.
What else can you find at Walgreens at 1:00 in the morning? Pillow Pets. Oh, you may not need one, but it will probably seem like a necessity when you are suffering from insommnia. You can also find Sharpie pens, gossip magazines, Nut Goody bars and several styles of false eyelashes.
Did you know that if you buy an As-​Seen-​On-​Tv item at Walgreens and you are dissatisfied they will return in, even if it’s used? Handy.
Also, I will second Laura P.‘s review about Cougar. Go check it out.

What can one say, it’s Walgreens, they have everything you need, plus its open 24-​hr.

30 minutes to print an 8×10. Unsat!

I hate this Walgreens!!! Hate… My Mother was terminally ill and that pharmacy put her through the worst hell a pharmacy possibly could! She had a walker, and they always bagged her bags way to heavy! They are always so busy, and understaffed.
Now my worst experience happened 5 years ago, but I’m Unilocaling about it now because the same employee still works there and I just witnessed a customer empty her pockets and her purse because the beeper thing at the door went off…
HORROR STORY…
5 years ago me and my friend went to this store and my friend walked in with a bag of chips. I didn’t see but my Friend said she waved the chips at the cashier. The cashier must not of seen either… I left the store before my friend. I’m waiting in the car and she is taking forever…
So she jumps in the car and says «go go go go…»
I said «what! Why??»
My friend replies «they think I stole these chips, and there writing down your license plates and calling the police.»
So I walk up to the manager and I said «whats going on, we bought those chips earlier today, could you please review the tapes before you involve the police?»
So now my friend is in the store, and we are pleading to review the tapes, the manager then says «I watched you pull those chips off the rack and start eating them!» LOL!!!
So we walk over to the manger and they didn’t have chips in stock, and nor did we even go back to chips and cooler aisle!
I am so frustrated and tired of arguing and fighting with the associate and manager that I go outside and wait for the police. The police arrive and I’m thinking in my head «Thank God there here to save us.»
Nope they immediately jump out and throw me on the car, cuff me, and put me in the backseat. They grabbed my friend into. AND THEN when the police watch the video and see that we didn’t steal anything, they tell us to get the hell out of here, and don’t come back.
I love how the manager said she watched my friend grab the chips off the rack and start eating them. The manger swore at us a few times, and was literally yelling at us. I was only 17 at the time. I’m really paranoid now whenever I go in there.
Oh, and I used to live over there, so it was the talk of the neighborhood that I stole from Walgreens.

This has to be the worst Walgreens in MN – possibly the country. This primarily refers to the pharmacy. Constantly screwing stuff up, which is, you know, kind of a problem when dealing with people’s medications. They don’t bother to file with insurance until you try to check out and suddenly the total is over $ 300. When they’re supposed to get your doctor’s approval to refill an ongoing prescription (very common) they’ll just forget and it ends up taking extra time to get it filled; again, not a huge deal if you weren’t dealing with someone’s medication/​health. Don’t bother calling you to call you when something is delayed – even though they say they will. And they don’t call you when something is ready, which is usually something they screwed up. I could go on about the incompetent nature of the pharmacy staff, but there’s not enough space here for all the different ways they’ve screwed things up. The only reason I stuck around here with my prescriptions is that it was the closest pharmacy to where I live. But I simply couldn’t take it anymore. Avoid at all costs unless you’re picking up deodorant, Advil or a chocolate bar.

Um. There is an older chick that works here named «Cougar».
Not kidding.
She was our cashier.
It was kind of late in the evening, so I can’t really pin point the shift she was working because I know all of you will want to go see the woman known as Cougar.
She was wearing a pentagram necklace and looked like she was full of fiery rock and roll.
Bleach blond hair that was white like lightening and ran down her back like a horse’s mane.
Oh Cougar!!!
Just don’t ask her if that is really her name.. .she didn’t like that.
Whatever about the store.
All I care about is COUGAR!!!
Yeow!!!