When picking up my daughters medication the gave her the wrong meds. she is on a mood stablizer called risperdal and they gave her a drug for parkinsons called ropinirole . lucky for me i noticed the mistake.

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Last week I spent 45 minutes arguing with a guy at CVS’ photo department … I had picked up some pictures the day before, and while the outer packaging was labeled with MY name, it turned out that they’d put someone else’s photos inside. No big deal—mistakes happen ... What irked the hell out of me is that when I went back the following day, and explained my situation to the employee, the guy flat out told me there was nothing he could do because “MY” pictures had someone ELSE’S name on them, and he wasn’t allowed to just randomly hand out pictures to people they didn’t belong to. He told me I’d have to contact the OTHER person and have them meet me at the store to do a swap, with our IDs present … I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THE OTHER PERSON!!! Talk about LIVID! It was the dumbest thing I’d ever heard! I thought I was on some sort of reality TV show!!! I bitched at the guy for a good fifteen minutes—and made a scene in front of a whole group that stood around, pretending not to be nosy—before the manager approached. For a split second, I felt relieved … This mess was FINALLY going to end. THE MANAGER SAID THE SAME EXACT THING!!! I pleaded with her to open with other photo package so she’d see my face on all the pictures in there, but she insisted it was against their privacy policy … WHAT F-ING PRIVACY POLICY?!?!?!?!? THEY DEVELOP PICTURES!!! THEY HAVE TO *LOOK* AT THE PICTURES TO PRINT AND PACK THEM!!! Eventually, I got pissed and stormed off after throwing the useless pictures at the two of them … Then, yesterday, I bought a photo printer. I will NEVER shop at CVS again … F-ing morons!

bought a watch that was on sale decided to return it as it was running slow, when I brought it back one day later the cashier informed me that since it was a clearance item they would not return the item. Where in the tore or on the receipt is this listed? i would like to return the watch without any hassel.

I have worked for CVS since Sept. '08 as a pharmacy tech and all I have to say is that, from my experience, most pharmacy employees could care less about helping customers and are only concerned with satisfying their own needs. They enjoy working at production (the station where prescriptions are filled) and data entry (where prescriptions are dropped off) but God forbid they should help a customer at the registers or at drive-thru. They feel as though they're gods or something because they're handling drugs and then forget about our most important commitment, which is supposed to be customer service. They feel like they're too good to be operating a cash register and dealing with customers.
That's where I come into the picture. I get shafted every time I show up to work. I am stuck at the registers and at drive-thru for hours on end, day after day, because that is the least coveted position at the pharmacy and I am viewed as being too incompetent for technical work by the pharmacists. Hmmm...I wonder why that is? Maybe because I HARDLY EVER get the chance to work at production or data entry, thereby becoming less and less efficient at my job, while the others, being there all day every day, are getting better and faster. We are supposed to rotate around the pharmacy every few hours, but that doesn't really happen. And most of my co-workers are just terrible people, period.
The lead pharmacist is a pr*ck, the other one is a b*tch with a capital B, and the third is just a freak. I swear, they are some of the weirdest people I have every dealt with in my entire life. And some of the technicians are sooooo passive aggressive that I just want to lash out and punch them in the face. For example, here are some case scenarios on what I may experience in a typical work day:
1) I FINALLY get to production and I customer shows up (typical) and the other tech (who has been there all day) is busy with her finger up her butt. The pharmacist says to me, "Ben, I need you up front" while I'm in the middle of filling a prescription while the other tech is doing nothing at all (or will sometimes make herself look as though she's busy). As soon as I leave to help the customer, she'll take over, and when I finally get back to production the prescription has been filled.
2) At last, I get to data entry to enter a prescription that has been sent electronically, but lo and behold, someone pulls into drive-thru. Once again, I hear the pharmacist, "Ben, I need you at drive-thru" while the other technician is standing around, either texting on his cell phone or making himself look busy...I swear this "making yourself look busy" is a classic pharmacy tech ploy when they don't want to help a customer. I proceed to drive-thru and, much to my surprise, when I return he has finished entering the prescription.
3) I once again find myself in production (a rare sight) and there is a freshly entered prescription that needs to be filled. I try to print the label, but wait! It's already been printed at another printer by another tech (they're not supposed to do this). He knows I want to fill the prescription but is doing this to spite me and to gratify his own wants...mostly the latter.
4) There is a long line at drive-thru and one of my co-workers is there at the window (a sight for sore eyes). As soon as the car pulls away, he dashes from the window as fast as he can in order to avoid the next customer. Soon, the computerized male voice on the pharmacy phone's speakers announces "One Drive-up Call" and I am summoned to take over because he's too special to be working at a drive-thru window and proceeds to production.
The list goes on and on.
Also, most of my co-workers are buddies but they exclude me from their circle and never invite me to hang out with them. It's very rude of them to talk about going out after work or getting together on the weekend and not even asking me if I would like to join them. They're not obligated to invite me but it would be nice of them not talk about their get-togethers right in front of my face...it really hurts.
By the way, CVS employees are entitled to one 30 minute unpaid lunch break (who the hell has time to eat their lunch in 30 minutes?) or two paid 15 minute breaks, not both. I have actually lost some weight because of this and it is worsening my gastrointestinal problems because I have to practically inhale my food as opposed to chewing it thoroughly. The pay also SUCKS! I have actually increased my alcohol consumption because of all the stress I am dealing with. Sometimes I will go home craving a drink just to forget about my horrible day at work. As soon as I get nationally certified I am leaving this hell-on-earth called CVS.

The moral of this story is that CVS sucks. Wal-Mart is so much better.

Take care, everybody!

- Ben

I have been going to my neighborhood CVS for YEARS !!!
I had a busted blood vessel in my eye, it burned and hurt terribly, I went inside the store to get my RX asap, I told the Pharmacist, please help me I was crying in pain for the burning in my eye. She said its too bad, because our normal wait time is 45 minutes !
I have never been treated so rudely, by a so called health professional !
Her initials were S.M. I never saw her there before and hope to never see her again !
I left the Rx and came back to the drive through an hour later for my RX. i went home and applied warm compresses until I could get my RX, they were eye drops and only needed to have a label slapped on it !