What is your favorite drug store?

[DLevine2]

Is your favorite drug store Walgreens, CVS, or Rite Aid? My favorite is Walgreens. I like that drug store.

[*ClassicPinUp*]

Walgreens.

[OH Nuts!]

Actually, to be honest none of them rock my world. When I need toiletries etc. I head to Target more often than not AND NEVER EVER EVER Duane Reade.

[Janice]

CVS all the way. They handle our prescriptions with care. The pharmacy staff, as well as the front-end staff, are efficient and courteous. I love CVS's Extra Care Rewards Program. I rack up 100s of $$ in Extra Bucks.

With the Sunday circular, and some careful planning - with their BOGOs, my coupons, my Extra Bucks - it's not at all unusual for me to get $80 worth of merchandise, and spent maybe $20. It takes some strategy and planning, but it's fun and sort of a hobby of mine.

[BarneyFife]

All Drug Stores are expensive but I guess if I had to choose one, It would be Walgreens.

[Zoneboy]

No question, CVS beats the other 2 hands down simply for the reasons Janice gave. I wouldn't dare have my meds filled by Walgreens. they've come under fire for allowing High School students to fill prescriptions and one such incident led to a woman having a massive stroke because she was given a high dosage by mistake. 20/20 did a segment on this a year or 2 ago.

[Zoneboy]

Eckerds was bought out by Rite Aid, We had 2 Rite Aid's here and they closed several years ago but came back when they replaced Eckerds.

[PunkyP0WER]

walgreens has the best prices all around and a better selection. also their stores are bigger. i tend to find cvs stores cramped and the layouts confusing. and cvs charges such high prices and you have to have a discount card to get any of their deals. i'm not a fan of discount cards, i hate the hassle and with id theft these days i'm not going to fill out a form with all this personal info. just to save 50 cents on toilet paper. cvs is always a last resort for me. i don't need any prescriptions luckily but if i did i'd probably go to walmart now that they have that $4 dollar plan and i usually buy their over the counter medicines because they're cheaper than all the pharmacies put together.

[Janice]

Originally Posted by Zoneboy

No question, CVS beats the other 2 hands down simply for the reasons Janice gave. I wouldn't dare have my meds filled by Walgreens. they've come under fire for allowing High School students to fill prescriptions and one such incident led to a woman having a massive stroke because she was given a high dosage by mistake. 20/20 did a segment on this a year or 2 ago.

What a shame, Charles. I always double check my medications, for both dosage and for actual content. Drugs.com is a handy reference guide to see pictures of medications. It states drug interactions, although CVS has pointed out potential issues. Another thing I like about CVS is that they're not judgemental. Three years ago, my husband had to take narcotics for his back, before his spinal fusion surgery. At first, he had the prescriptions filled at Walgreens, but he said that he got a weird vibe off some of their staff. At CVS, there were no such issues. We actually get most of our prescriptions at Express-Scripts. It's great, having a 3-month supply of meds delivered right to our front door.

[PunkyP0WER]

you're right about the highschoolers zoneboy. i worked at walgreens for a bit and the pharmacy techs were mostly high schoolers. actually the assistant manager (3rd shift) was a heroin addict and had served a few years of his sentence for armed robbery before being paroled and then hired by walgreens. old habits die hard i guess cause after 2 years of being assistant manager he was arrested again for selling drugs, he got out on bail and still held his position at the store. they fired him only after discovering that he let his dealer rob the place blind (merchandise wise) when he couldn't afford to pay him.

[Janice]

Originally Posted by PunkyP0WER

walgreens has the best prices all around and a better selection. also their stores are bigger. i tend to find cvs stores cramped and the layouts confusing. and cvs charges such high prices and you have to have a discount card to get any of their deals. i'm not a fan of discount cards, i hate the hassle and with id theft these days i'm not going to fill out a form with all this personal info. just to save 50 cents on toilet paper. cvs is always a last resort for me. i don't need any prescriptions luckily but if i did i'd probably go to walmart now that they have that $4 dollar plan and i usually buy their over the counter medicines because they're cheaper than all the pharmacies put together.

All I filled out for CVS was my name, address and phone number. It's tiny card on my keyring. You are definitely not familiar with CVS's Extra Bucks Program. It's not 50 cents on toilet paper. I make an absolute killing on health and beauty products, everything in the store actually. They e:mailed me my quarterly coupon a couple of weeks ago, for $28 dollars. I don't care what they charge for prescriptions because I only pay a dollar no matter where I go. Just one of the benefits of living in the grand old state of Massachusetts. Free health care. I love it.

[PunkyP0WER]

janice its true about the weird vibe. the pharmacist at our walgreens practically interrogated customers that came in with prescriptions for painkillers. he'd always make comments to them and treat them kind of rude and then call them addicts when they left. this one woman, a new mother came in to fill an rx for her babys ear infection. after it was filled she shopped around and came to my register with other items. she placed her rx on thecounter as i was ringing her up and accidently left it behind. i didn't see it either because it was in a blind spot and another customer ended up stealing it probably thinking it was "good" stuff. anyway the mother came back in frantic looking for it and the pharmacist did not believe her. only after reviewing the surveillance tape did he relent but he was so mean to her initially.

[Janice]

Originally Posted by PunkyP0WER

janice its true about the weird vibe. the pharmacist at our walgreens practically interrogated customers that came in with prescriptions for painkillers. he'd always make comments to them and treat them kind of rude and then call them addicts when they left. this one woman, a new mother came in to fill an rx for her babys ear infection. after it was filled she shopped around and came to my register with other items. she placed her rx on thecounter as i was ringing her up and accidently left it behind. i didn't see it either because it was in a blind spot and another customer ended up stealing it probably thinking it was "good" stuff. anyway the mother came back in frantic looking for it and the pharmacist did not believe her. only after reviewing the surveillance tape did he relent but he was so mean to her initially.

Yeah, some pharmacists take it way too far. I can understand the predicament they're in, given the robberies for Oxycontin, etc. Still, as your story illustrates, they often go too far, and target the wrong people. It's unfair.

[PunkyP0WER]

i guess i've had bad experiences with discount cards. at big y i filled out their applicaton for a card and was told my soc. sec. number was already in use for someone elses card, telling me i was stealing my own id! lets just say it turned me off to the idea.

[Zoneboy]

Originally Posted by PunkyP0WER

janice its true about the weird vibe. the pharmacist at our walgreens practically interrogated customers that came in with prescriptions for painkillers.

Pharmacists are trained and paid to fill prescriptions not to interrogate the person for whom the meds are for. If anyone at Walgreen's has an issue with a legally obtained Dr's prescription they should take it up with the Dr. not the person it was prescribed for.