Walgreens

Definitely a bit more run down and dingy than most Walgreens locations, but it’s got pretty much whatever you would come to a Walgreens needing to get. There’s a fairly large cosmetics area when you first walk in, food toward the left, and a drive-​up window.
It doesn’t really draw me in to browse, but if I need something I know it’s there.

I have used this pharmacy for my medications for 2 years. It is inevitable that there is a screw up each and every time.
Mallats pharmacy in Monroe St will now be getting my business!

To the writer below, 1 star is too harsh. Really!!! Really!!!
Well, it’s a two-​star Walgreens.
I walk here every day on my roundabout way to work. It’s fine as it has the same amount of Walgreens wares as everywhere else. It’s well-​stocked and yada yada. I don’t get my drugs there — of course my HMO has something to say about that. Here I’m giving you the experience of the stop.
The Walgreens is accross the street from the West Transfer Point, so just be aware that some of those folks may be a little sketchy and loiter frequently. Google police incident reports if you want to get a bit alarmed by the loitering-​type incidents [armed teen robbery (back and forth from the West Transfer Point); man with sword in parking lot; middle-​aged man yelling at a 15-​year-​old girl that doesn’t want anything to do with him… and so on].
The store clerks are a bunch of characters. Early in the morning (weekdays she leaves at 7:15AM), you have Gabby McGabberson. She talks, whines, complains and gives her boss crap. Stuff professionals can’t easily get away with and is annoying for people waiting in line to get their crap and go to work. Lines!!! They don’t bother her — she’ll keep gabbing away making me steam.
The manager looks like Wilford Brimley, but this version appears to been on total autopilot for 20 years. He’s just there when required — that’s probably why Gabby feels she can spew endlessly at everyone’s expense.
I go here every day because I like to start my day as bad as possible. When I leave, I’m agitated, aggravated and annoyed. The combination of all those emotions can’t help to wake me up (with multiple cups of coffee that proceeded it). Also, my day usually improves when compared to its terrible beginnings.

This is the closest 24-​hour Walgreen’s to me but seriously, this place has THE most incompetent and slow pharmacy. I called in a script at 3, said I needed it by 5:30, and at 7:15 they didn’t have it ready. When I came back 20 minutes later the woman at the next drive-​through window was having the exact same problem. If you can help it at all, for pharmacy purposes, stick to the one down the road at Raymond and Whitney — they’re fantastic.