Bartell Drugs

Bartels gives great service and I would recommend them if you have exceptional pharmacy benefits. If you have medications that your insurance won’t pay for and you are paying Bartels cash prices, you are getting ripped off big time. I would recommend looking up GoodRx and do some price comparisons and you will get my point. You can put their app on your phone and use it at any pharmacy other than BARTELL’S, THEY DON’T PARTICIPATE. Walgreen, Rite Aid, even Safeway participate.
The app or website will give you the closest pharmacy with the best prices and you will be amazed once you start doing some prices comparisons. Typically, you will save roughly 50−60% in price per pill vs. Bartels. There are other pharmacy price comparison sites, just look around. Bartels is not a family pharmacy, but a corporation, its called marketing and I have found them to be the most expensive pharmacy in the region and I don’t fill any medications that my insurance won’t pay for at Bartels.

Hmmm… do they have that caramel corn I love?!
The pharmacy team has always been friendly. And quick! They seem to really care about us as customers and are willing to not only answer questions, but make suggestions as well (even coming from behind the counter to show products and compare brands). We enjoy searching for the deals here, too. What would cost $ 7 at a grocery store often costs half of that here. And they have quirky treats that I can’t find anywhere else (hunt down the «Cosmos Creations Caramel Corn» — yum!). One of the odd things is that they escort you to the restroom should you need it. In fact, if you ask to use the restroom, they page that they need assistance to the back room. I gave a smirk to the older woman who came to escort me and mentioned I was grateful for her company. I don’t think she found the humor…

This review is for the pharmacy; I don’t really shop in the store section so I can’t comment on that bit.
I just wanted to say, Christina, one of the pharmacists, is the best at her job that I’ve ever seen. She’s been filling prescriptions for my bf and me and since we moved to Bothell 3 years ago, and of all the staff in the pharmacy (of any pharmacy I’ve ever been to), Christina is the only one who remembers our names, which medications we’re on, and takes the time to double check any dosage changes with us. She also goes out of her way to make sure we always have what we need, whether it’s chasing down our doctors for refill scripts, providing medication to tide us over while they wait for a new shipment of our prescription, or some other «extra mile» step.
In general, the other staff members (pharmacists and cashiers alike) provide good service, but without her, the pharmacy at Bartell would be comparable to any other store, like Walmart, Walgreens or Target. Christina is the reason we go out of our way to keep using Bartell Drugs’ pharmacy department (and every year I write a note to corporate for her).

I always like Bartell Drug, not matter location I typically enjoy myself. They’ve got a bomb candy isle :) So I like to hit this place up before the movies to smuggle in some junk, ha ha. They’ve got a good selection of make up and also travel toiletries. I like the service at Bartell also, the cashiers are usually super nice and they wear those cute red vests :) This Bartell is always clean too.

Good selection of household goods.
The Pharmacy is fast and attentive.
The only real problem that I have is that the stock is often moved around… particularity the Soda Stream products.

**Pharmacy Review**
I love this Bartell’s Pharmacy and I love everyone who works there! Christine (or Christina?) who is a lead Pharmacist, helped me today with a prescription fill which was going to require me to pay out of pocket and be specially ordered from a compound pharmacy when it was all potentially unnecessary. Unfortunately the specialized doctor (who I probably will not be seeing again) would not budge when Christina called (and when I called) about using something else, readily available and covered by insurance which should work just fine. Through the entire ordeal, Christine was super professional not to mention so sweet and great about it !
This is my go to pharmacy and the staff has repeatedly exceeded my expectations. Not too long ago, I was sick with a prescription for horse pills and they so willingly gave me the liquid form when requesting an alternative with no hassles.
For being a chain, this particular Bartell’s Pharmacy has a wonderfully personal, neighborhood feel and staff.