Walgreens - 1033 Shooting Park Road, Peru

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• Alissa Gearhart
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  While the makeup counter people are sweet and helpful, the pharmacy is poorly managed, understaffed, undertrained, which becomes obvious as you are left waiting ages for prescriptions (and watching the poor, sick souls waiting next to you suffer for hours before they are granted their antibiotic or other medication). Routinely at this store, I've had a pharmacist or tech forget to order a high dollar, relatively rare medication prescribed by my board certified pain specialist. Few pharmacies stock this medication, but I've been taking it for years, with my doctor often required to prove I still need it every three to four months. This pharmacy imposed an arbitrary store rule that they won't fill pain scrips until you're three days from being out of medication (most insurance would pay for fills a week earlier than the store allows). Then, the store orders appears to order medication just twice a week, so if they don't stock your pain medication, inevitably, they force a patient to do without medication. This happens to me on a regular basis, but rarely does the pharmacist own up that they simply forgot to order the medication when they said they would. Last few times, the pharmacist told me that they had tried their best to order my medication but the medicine was discontinued by the manufacturer (or the sku number changed, or the strength of the medicine changed....I've heard every made up excuse you can imagine from these "professionals"). Within ten minutes, I was able to personally speak to the manufacturer's pharmacy department who connected me with their regional distributor of the medication who assured me that not only was the drug still being manufactured, but that other Walgreens in IL were ordering it every day, and that there was absolutely nothing amiss in the supply chain- it was clearly a store issue. If CVS or HyVee, or any other pharmacy in my area stocked my medicine, I'd take my business anywhere but this Walgreens. I feel so bad for the kind new hire techs and loyal old guard employees who take abuse from the customers because of the management and a few bad pharmacist's dedication to mediocrity.
  Special mention for the late night pharmacists, who are usually very quick and helpful. Generally though, this is not the place to entrust with your healthcare needs.
• Alissa Gearhart
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  While the makeup counter people are sweet and helpful, the pharmacy is poorly managed, understaffed, undertrained, which becomes obvious as you are left waiting ages for prescriptions (and watching the poor, sick souls waiting next to you suffer for hours before they are granted their antibiotic or other medication). Routinely at this store, I've had a pharmacist or tech forget to order a high dollar, relatively rare medication prescribed by my board certified pain specialist. Few pharmacies stock this medication, but I've been taking it for years, with my doctor often required to prove I still need it every three to four months. This pharmacy imposed an arbitrary store rule that they won't fill pain scrips until you're three days from being out of medication (most insurance would pay for fills a week earlier than the store allows). Then, the store orders appears to order medication just twice a week, so if they don't stock your pain medication, inevitably, they force a patient to do without medication. This happens to me on a regular basis, but rarely does the pharmacist own up that they simply forgot to order the medication when they said they would. Last few times, the pharmacist told me that they had tried their best to order my medication but the medicine was discontinued by the manufacturer (or the sku number changed, or the strength of the medicine changed....I've heard every made up excuse you can imagine from these "professionals"). Within ten minutes, I was able to personally speak to the manufacturer's pharmacy department who connected me with their regional distributor of the medication who assured me that not only was the drug still being manufactured, but that other Walgreens in IL were ordering it every day, and that there was absolutely nothing amiss in the supply chain- it was clearly a store issue. If CVS or HyVee, or any other pharmacy in my area stocked my medicine, I'd take my business anywhere but this Walgreens. I feel so bad for the kind new hire techs and loyal old guard employees who take abuse from the customers because of the management and a few bad pharmacist's dedication to mediocrity.
  Special mention for the late night pharmacists, who are usually very quick and helpful. Generally though, this is not the place to entrust with your healthcare needs.

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