Delayed prescription changes to available to order - app alerts to not work
This has been occurring for months. It is now nearly 4 weeks that my script has not been filled. It was originally placed on 4/29 by my doctor electronically (it is now 5/26). The app first stated delayed (apparently due to it being out of stock) and only after calling was told verbally it is out of stock and will be in next week. It eventually ends up back in my scripts available to be added. If I didn’t continually check the app, I would not know it was no longer waiting to be filled. So, I submit it once again… and it states again that it’s delayed. Verbally again I’m told it will be in the following week… for which once again it never is filled. After a week to 10 days it again ends up back in my scripts available to be ordered…. and I need to initiate it again. The app is useless unless it’s monitored daily and I consistently call the pharmacy… which it takes up to 15 minutes to even talk to someone. The only notifications I do ever receive are by text when a script is truly being processed and when it is filled ( no app alerts). With today’s technology there is no reason anyone should need to do this with something as important as prescriptions. Very disappointing for a company as big as Walgreens whose primary focus is a pharmacy dealing with filling prescriptions and it’s importance to their health and wellbeing.Walgreens is going downhill fast!!
Walgreens only care about making a buck at the end of the day. They hey have consistently reduced how many pharmacy staff are working at any given time. They have also reduced the hours the pharmacy is open. The first one I picked up prescriptions from started closing at 6pm daily so I switched to a different one that was opened until 10pm seven days a week. They have now started closing at 6pm on the weekends and they don’t even have enough workers for you to be able to go inside and pick up prescriptions. They literally will have the pharmacist and one worker scheduled and will close the metal security grate on the inside and you have to go through the drive thru to pick up. If you took the bus like me you’re screwed depending on who’s working. I had to line up in the drive thru line and just stand there since I don’t have a car. After inhaling exhaust for 30 minutes (the line was ridiculously long) I walked up to the window and had the technician deny me service because I wasn’t inside of a car. I had to make a huge fuss as I went back and forth with her. I guess the pharmacist heard the ruckus and stepped in and made her serve me. It shouldn’t have even come to that. Walgreens needs to do better. They should treat employees better and customers. If they don’t they will find themselves wondering what went wrong when they go bankrupt.Poor customer service
I went to the Walgreens on Whiskey Rd. in Aiken SC, on May 16th at 5:30pm and dropped off two prescriptions to be filled. I was told by the Walgreens associate after she checked that the items were in stock and to come back at 730 and they would be ready. I came back at 7:30 and was told by a different Walgreens associate that there wasn’t one for me in the computer. I told her the other girl took my two prescriptions and scanned them and told me to come back at 7:30. She went to the other girl came back and told me that she found them that they had been scanned but not typed up so the prescriptions were not filled. I asked her are you going to type them and fill them now and she said no I would have to come back tomorrow to pick them up she said there were other people in front of me. I was the only one there she said they were ahead of me in the system I told her I would be two hours ahead of them if they had typed my prescription. I was still told to come back tomorrow which would be three trips for me. Bottom line the associate or the pharmacist should have said we apologize for our mistake and will get this ready for you now instead they offered what was best for them. I told her to hand me my prescriptions and that I would not be back. I went to Kroger arrived 15 minutes before they closed and they filled my prescriptions while I waited.