Safeway Pharmacy

Reviews about Safeway Pharmacy

• J B

  May, 04 2018
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  TL:DR - Drive down the street to CVS or Harris Teeter if you don't want to stand and wait forever just after an outpatient procedure.
  
  Today was a big day, after a few kids I finally had a vasectomy. Not exactly a great experience, but not that bad if you are considering one. Post big V the doctor called in my prescription for some painkillers at Safeway since we live really close.
  
  I drive back from the docs, the drive is a hair under 40 min so you would presume the meds would be ready, or at least hope. At Safeway I waddle through the store looking like an injured penguin/man who had private jewels operated on. Upon getting to the pharmacy I hand them the perscription and they let me know the order was put in by the doc a while ago. Great, I can have my pillls. Except they did not fill it, apparently because they had to check my insurance. Not this seems a bit ridiculous because the regular price of all 15 pills was $16.95 and if they were worried about waste it is really not that big of a deal. However there is an opiate crisis going on so maybe that is it. After giving them my card, and informing that I really would like those pills since i just had a procedure and the anesthesia is wearing off, they say 15 min. Fine, whatever, I adjust my ice pack in my pants and waddle over to the Starbucks in the store. Get a delicious chocolate croissant (which despite wife enforced diet i deserve), iced tea and waddle back.
  
  At this time my nether area is really starting to act up. It is not comfortable, my ice pack is luke warm and that prescription could really come in handy. It has been 20 min. After waiting in line behind a very inquisitive elderly lady I finally approach in glee of getting some sweet painkillers. Guess what, they are not ready but will be in a few min. Now I waddle back over to Starbucks, and sit for another 10 minutes and eat another croissant. Waddle back. This time there are four people in line. The same exact amount working behind the counter. This four person line takes approximately 16.5 minutes (at this point I was very aware of the passage of time) and as I again get to the counter very excitedly they inform me the pills are again not ready but will be. This was close to true as in another three minutes I finally got them.
  
  Now I understand that there are probably magical pharmacist things going on and lots of other people use the pharmacy. I'm sure there are laws, other peoples orders and Facebook to check. But this is Friday morning with few people in the store. I was standing right there and both the paper prescription and I informed the very polite lady behind the counter about the very recent nature of my medical intervention of a sensitive area. Just a tiny sliver of compassion and bumping up the filling of the prescription would absolutely have helped, if anything to finally let me sit down since standing is something the doctor said specifically to avoid. The person attending was very polite though.

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