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Jilly_in_VA

(10,742 posts) Thu Oct 12, 2023, 05:48 PM Oct 2023

Walgreens

The one near me where my quickly needed prescription is located is "temporarily closed due to an emergency". The CSR who answered the phone (heavily accented of course) had no information as to the emergency or whether they would be open tomorrow or when they would be open again. This is getting beyond ridiculous and into the sphere of enraging.

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Walgreens (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 OP

I believe it is due to the strike... hlthe2b Oct 2023 #1

They aren't striking in VA where I am. Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 #2

Can you have the doctor send the prescription to a different pharmacy? onecaliberal Oct 2023 #3

I had her send them to Walmart Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 #5

They are insanely understaffed don't blame the mucifer Oct 2023 #4

Everyone outsources their CSR overseas Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 #6

Read: Jirel Oct 2023 #7

There are not "better pharmacies" Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 #8

hlthe2b

(105,662 posts)

1. I believe it is due to the strike...

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 05:50 PM

Oct 2023

Sorry!

Jilly_in_VA

(10,742 posts)

2. They aren't striking in VA where I am.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 05:51 PM

Oct 2023

onecaliberal

(35,367 posts)

3. Can you have the doctor send the prescription to a different pharmacy?

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 06:22 PM

Oct 2023

Jilly_in_VA

(10,742 posts)

5. I had her send them to Walmart

Reply to onecaliberal (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 06:40 PM

Oct 2023

I don't trust Walmart for reasons I've detailed in other posts, but the one here seems okay. These particular ones are ones I need right now this minute (tomorrow) so yeah. If you want to know why I don't trust Walmart DM me.

mucifer

(24,609 posts)

4. They are insanely understaffed don't blame the

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 06:34 PM

Oct 2023

“Person with the accent “

Most people who live in the United States have ancestors who came here with accents.

It’s corporate greed that is the culprit.

Jilly_in_VA

(10,742 posts)

6. Everyone outsources their CSR overseas

Reply to mucifer (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 06:41 PM

Oct 2023

Everyone.

Jirel

(2,236 posts)

7. Read:

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2023, 06:57 PM

Oct 2023

Either this store is striking, or the staff has been sent to busier stores that are striking.

What IS beyond ridiculous and enraging, is what Walgreens corporate is doing to the staff.

Do you REALLY want to cross picket lines. Or are you going to move your prescriptions to a better pharmacy?

Jilly_in_VA

(10,742 posts)

8. There are not "better pharmacies"

Reply to Jirel (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 13, 2023, 06:08 PM

Oct 2023

on my stupid part D plan. Or in this area now that the only local one closed. Costco is better but it's not on my plan and it's kinda out of the way besides. Walgreens USED to be Rite-Aid and was better until Walgreens bought them and turned them into guess what.

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