Walgreens

My daughter is a student at MSU. Her doctor called in a prescription to Walgreens. I talked to Amelia, the pharmacist, who confirmed they had my daughter's information in the system. Amelia had to order the medication. The next morning the prescription was ready for pickup. Amelia made the entire process easy. She was friendly, informative and knowledgeable. It gives me peace of mind to be able to depend on an out of town pharmacy for my daughter's prescriptions.

Friendly staff. The store has a good selection of products despite being smaller than your typical Walgreens.

Hey Walgreens, not every person that’s not white is a thief. Every time I come in there I have employees following me around like I’m going to steal something. Trust me if I wanted to steal something you will never know even if you were standing right next to me. And don’t try to tell me it’s not about race, I was in there at the same time as a couple young white females and I was the only one being followed. It’s 2023 but it’s like we keep moving backwards. Horrible experience every single time.

My eight-year-old daughter received a vaccination at the East Lansing Walgreens today. My daughter is extremely afraid of shots. The person who gave the shot treated my daughter in an unacceptable way: with shame, humiliation, blame, and just plain unkindness. “I’ve had 3-year-olds in here today who have done better than you. What are you, a 3-year-old?” “You told me you would sit still. I guess you lied, huh?” And similar, for 15 minutes. My daughter was genuinely struggling, and trying the best she could, and the Walgreens staff member added significantly to her stress. This person needs to learn how to treat kids with empathy, patience, and kindness, or else just keep quiet. I don’t want anything—I don’t need a response—I just want the employee to read this and see it as a wake-up call, and decide whether that’s the impact she would like to have as a supposed “caretaker.”

My daughter kept saying, during and after the shot, “I’m just not brave enough.” The Walgreen employee had this effect on her self-worth. I needed to do major repair as a parent afterward. To help my daughter place this kind of unkindness in context as more about the unkind person than about her, I talked with her about the story of Matilda, and specifically the character of Ms. Trunchbull, who bullies and shames kids because of her own insecurities. Is that how this employee would like to be in the world?

It goes without saying that I’ll never be back in that store.

white guy with curly brown hair didnt serve me caues i called him out for lieing to me about being the only one working 3/6/23 6:30 he was in the photo area got mad cause i told him not to lie to me. he big mad

They don’t have their pharmacy hours posted so I got there at 6:03. Apparently they close at 6. Someone was literally in line for their prescription, they received it and then the pharmacy shut their window right on me. Kinda rude.