Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

Walgreens delivers.

I'm happy with their recent changes - tech advances in the pharmacy are huge. I like their newly reorganized stores, their house brand stuff is good and cheap (Nice!), and I've gotten about $15 from their loyalty card in the past year, which is a Nice! little surprise every once in a while.

xp - I've seen huge improvements in customer service in the ones around here. Not Trader Joe's friendly, but they NEVER let lines build up, and they're professional and they know where shit is. And *what* shit is.

Walgreens sure doesn't deliver around here.

My new pharmacy even sent me a thank-you card in the mail.

its like the CVS stores around me have gone to shit and the Walgreen's have straightened out a lot. the CVS by my house is a nightmare.

Je55e is advancing the cause of this small Chicago-based business as as sense of community

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Of course, but I'm more IA at the process itself withthe lack of prescription name. It's IA because I'm sure there's a good reason for this, privacy or some shit I don't care about.

Walgreens locking up razor blades so that you have to ask someone (there's never anyone around) to come unlock the case so you can shave.

Or worse, when they lock up deodorant and toothbrushes, so if you want to find a toothbrush you can you use you have to wait for someone to come open the case up for you, then make them wait while you look at the 100 choices of toothbrush to find the one that is right because they are not actually visible through the locked cases.

Well at Walgreens *IN CHICAGO,* they don't use locks, they just put deodorant behind this sliding mechanism that only allows you to take out one or two at a time. And when you push the little button for the razors or Zantac, a worker comes running right away.

je55e you love walgreens soooooooooo much you want to be pregnant with its chain pharmacy baby, all craving drug-store brand canada peppermints and delivering at one of 800,000 convenient chicago locations

was it surm who was really into wandering around walgreens?

Some Walgreens lock up all that shit! It depends on where it's located. The one by my old job locked up everything. The one in my current building doesn't lock up anything.

Fun story that I can tell now: during the course of our attempts to get me knocked up, I was trying to buy pregnancy tests, but they were fucking LOCKED UP and I had to ring for an employee, which broadcasted a recorded voice throughout the store saying "Customer service is needed in the personal care department" over and over until this like 22 year old guy came over like ten minutes later and I had to point out the pregnancy test I wanted, which whatever I am a grown ass woman, there is no shame in my game, but he was so clearly flustered by it that I got embarrassed for him. Also I was standing there next to the locked up pregnancy tests, ovulation kits, condoms, and lube while the voice announced to the world that I was waiting for customer service and I wanted to wave at everybody like HI YES I AM WAITING TO PURCHASE ONE MAYBE ALL OF THESE ITEMS. Also all of this was happening at the Walgreens that was directly across the street from my building and where I pretty much never didn't see somebody I worked with.

I bought like Brut unscented rollon for the five years that I worked at that old job because it was the only deodorant that wasn't locked up.

IA: I keep dialing 1 before the number when making work-related calls from my mobile phone.

I was talking to a dude who has been assistant manager at a Walgreens and a customer called and asked if they had any vibrators, to which he clarified they meant the massagers in the personal care aisle and not some sort of back massager, and then was asked to explain the different options available (brands and features).

Not so many diverse options at Walgreens

stupid question but why is deodorant locked up?

it's easy to shoplift

there are actual like shoplifting rings that make $ stealing like tide and deodorant then selling it to dollar stores

Yeah, that's the reason as far as I can figure. Easy to shoplift and an in demand item. Weirdly, no makeup was locked up, which seems like it would fall into that category, especially the more expensive Revlon/Loreal stuff.

A former coworker used to always buy deodorant in the suburbs because city drug stores put security stickers on deodorant (even when it's locked up) and suburban drug stores don't. Nb: that coworker was super weird in a million other ways.

these wallgreens i'm angry at are in the financial district in sf so i'm assuming they just lock up anything any homeless person might want to steal. i find it less irritating to have stuff behind a counter for some reason. to lock up basic everyday items (like toothbrushes!) makes me feel like they're treating any browsing customer as a thief from the start.

Yeah, totally.

people driving in slow traffic (therefore not much space between cars) who decide they want to parallel park in a spot that is now behind them and adjacent to you. especially when there's too much traffic in the other lane to just move over.

when i pull up to parallel park on the street, even have my signal on and i'm obviously slowing down and getting in position, but the person behind me just pulls their car right up behind so i can't back into the space because they weren't paying attention to what i was doing.

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yeah but you actually signaled. i am a very attentive, courteous driver. these people are just assholes.

there are actual like shoplifting rings that make $ stealing like tide and deodorant then selling it to dollar stores

I heard (from Carl a IIRC) about Tide being a currency in drug trade or some other illicit market.

oh yeah co-worker's wife is a higher-up at a major retail chain and she has so many insane stories about stuff being stolen and sold back to the chain. the shoplifting ring people also run into department stores and steal massive amounts of jeans or other clothes and sell them to cheaper stores or on ebay. i am fascinated by these shoplifting rings tbh.

A former student of mine worked as a security guard at CVS and he confirmed this Tide theft ring thing.

my local cvs now only has self-checkout. the machines bitch at me when the weight of my goods isn't right, i need a person to approve my nyquil purchases, half the time only two of the four machines are in operation

they are the worst

the only thing I like about my CVS is the pharmacy -- they are the same staff that were there when it was a Long's and they're very friendly and there's not usually any lines.

everything else about it can pretty much fuck off though

the grey carpet bums me out

I'm fascinated by a world where heavy-ass jugs of Tide are the currency of choice.

also very popular is cases of similac

i demand a new yorker story on this

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another thing i'm fascinated by is door-to-door sales companies (real and imagined) that hire serial burglars/rapists

whatnow

check out this shitty website about them http://www.travelingsalescrews.info/index.html
off topic!!!!!

huh

i demand a new yorker story on this

is new york magazine acceptable http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/index1.html

So glad my family's finally beyond formula and diapers. Alarm went off 7 out of 10 times as we exited.

er, I mean, look forward to your joyful bundle, c.a.

current and long-standing IA: people who stop the microwave before the time is up and just leave it without resetting the timer

oh hell yes

with the door ajar.

I know a lot of people hate the door ajar thing, but sometimes you want it to air, depending on what you've been zapping. those boxes are airtight.

Fun cleaning tip! Cut a lemon in quarters, squeeze the juice into a bowl of water, toss the lemons in, too, then microwave the whole thing for... I don't know, maybe two or three minutes? Any nuked on food will wipe right out and it will make the microwave smell good again.

RIP lost lemon juice that could have been eaten.

you could add honey and whisky and then have a nice-smelling microwave AND a hot toddy

A bowl of vinegar works pretty well too, but doesn't smell as nice as lemos

that lemon thing is a great tip

People who say things like "Password? no I don't know it! You know how many damn passwords I gotta memorize? Why can't I just tell you who I am and access my account?"

that lemon thing is a great tip

#lifehack