I persnally cannot stand CVS. Anywhere that I need to sign up to get sale prices doesn't deserve my business. I live in NW OKC and was very excited when I saw the old Glamour Studios building getting knocked down, but then learned CVS was going in there. I can guarantee I will never step foot in there. Walgreens all the way!

I agree completely. Just a few days ago I went in for a couple of items. What should have been an In/Out turned into the Inquisition..

Do you have a card?

I can't remember.

What's your phone number, I'll look it up.

Phone number.

NO, not in the system. Do you want to get a new card?

No thanks, I'm in a bit of a rush.

You won't get the sale price.

Really, well, I'll see if I can find it for next time.

Well, I'll run this card so you get the sale price.

Okay, thanks.

But, before I do, here's the application in case you want to fill it out.. see, just sign here.

Okay Thanks, Can I have my total please?

Okay, here's your application..remember, see, here's where you sign it.. ( pointing it out for a fourth time)

Please, just give me my items!

Okay, but don't forget this! It's your application.

aagghhhhhh

I don't want no stinkin card!! lol

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I switched back to Walgreens right after I started this thread! I am so happy I don't have to deal with CVS. I never really gave them a chance though. I just didn't like the fact that their systems were linked between all their stores. I wonder if that has changed by now?

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I bought a bag of gummi bears in CVS this past weekend, and when I popped the first one in my mouth, I about broke a tooth.

Looking at the bag, I see that they expired in June '05.

WTH CVS?

Dang I have an interview tomorrow at CVS for a pharmacy tech position....after coming here not so sure its a good idea to accept a position there?! Should I risk it???

I loved my CVS on 23rd & Classen. It was convenient and the pharmacists treated me really well. On several occasions over the years I forgot and tried to get my prescription too late and they would always give me 2 to 5 pills if I really needed it and it had to be called in to be renewed. I've never had another pharmacy offer that. I hated it when I realized my prescriptions would be cheaper at Walgreens and I reluctantly changed over. Walgreens is fine and I appreciate the savings but I miss the old pharmacists and techs I had come to know at CVS.

We used to use Family Meds over by Baptist Hospital. Then they were bought out by Walgreens, so I use the Walgreen's a 50th and N. May. We have always been satisfied with the service we get from them. They are friendly and always helpful.We use them for all our prescriptions.

I hate Walgreens. I never get my prescription in less than 4 hours. I have to always come back. If it is something that I really need (i.e. husband's pain meds after surgery) 4 hours is a loooong time.

I've no issue with the CVS I use in Norman. Haven't ever stepped foot in one in OKC.

Having a close relative in the business, I hear stories all the time. My suggestion on what you said about the pain meds is, in a situation like that, to always ask to speak to the pharmacist (not one of the techs) and kindly ask him/her to expedite the filling of the prescription and explain the circumstances. They will almost always move those reasonable requests to the top and you shouldn't have to wait but for a couple of minutes. Pharmacists understand that kind of thing.

CVS is building everywhere Walgreen is. I feel bad that one of them is going to eventually shut down.

I was about to say that if you don't like one of them, just walk across the street to the other one. Seems easy enough. (Note: this was a joke, not a stab at people who have a hard time getting their medication filled and find it annoying.)

I prefer Walgreens, the woman prefers CVS. I hate going into the CVS on 15th and Air Depot it smells like a wet dog.

Other than the pharmacy sales, personally, I don't see how either one stays in business, let alone open a new store on a vacant corner every 6 months or so.....

I have used the Wards, Eckerd's, CVS since 1974 or so. It used to be at NW 34th and Classen when it was Ward's.

The main reason I stay at CVS is Alfred the pharmacist. He has been there for almost the entire time and I have come to appreciate his care of me and my family. I even get a birthday card every year from him and his crew. They even sent flowers when my mother died (she shopped there as well)!

Having said that I have had to use Walgreen's a time or two when CVS was closed...after 9 pm and have found them very helpful and would not hesitate to change over if Alfred ever left the store on NW 23rd.

Yes, there are a few panhandlers around...however, lately I have not seen them..perhaps they are been urged to move on. I have also seen the same ones at Walgreens across the street.

Here's my 2-cents. I have no beef with CVS. They don't seem to have any problem communicating my records from store to store. The pharmacist at my regular store is friendly and helpful. On the rare occasion I have chosen to wait on the premises for a prescription, it usually takes them 10 minutes, max, to fill it. But the main reason I like CVS better than Walgreens is that I find their packaging easier to manage. It's very difficult for me to open and close the prescription bottles that Walgreens uses. CVS still uses the traditional push-to-open variety that work well. The lids never go on straight on the Walgreens bottles.

Okay, I don't like that CVS tracks my purchases with that stupid card, but I use it and it does come in handy. Not only does it get me the sale prices, but occasionally, it gives me "free money" (of sorts) to spend in the store however I need to. I nice that as long as I'm going to fill my prescriptions anyway, they're going to give me $5 or $10 or even $15 each quarter to use on kleenex or deoderant or chocolate-covered almonds, or whatever. Walgreens doesn't do that. I pay with my privacy, I realize, but they have a record of my prescriptions anyway, and CVS and my bank both have records of my other transactions because I used a debit card. I'm only getting complete privacy if I'm paying cash and not filling prescriptions. So be it.

There is good and bads about both things, I think the set up at walgreens is moore customer friendly the atmosphere is better there, but cvs has minute clinics which i really like.

2 things:

1. CVS stores ARE linked by a central database. Any CVS store can see ANY prescription you have filled at ANY CVS store and you can have that prescription filled at ANY other CVS. You just have to say that you have not been to that particular CVS but you have prescriptions filled at a different one. Problem solved.

2. CVS price matches! ANY price. $4 prescriptions, done. They just have to call the competitor pharmacy to confirm the price and that's it. They also accept competitor coupons as long as they're not expired, and some stores will even give you more after that coupon.

There's a CVS and Walgreens within a block of me on 39th and MacArthur, but I usually just go to the Walgreens, because I don't have to try to cross the busy street to get to it like I do with CVS, haha.

I have always got my scripts at CVS and my wife gets her at Walgreens. All my meds are on Walgreens Saving Plan cheap. CVS has always been so nice to me but I had to go to the Doc the other day to get refills on three of my meds. All are on walgreen and Walmarts plan for 4.00. I guess what i'm trying to say is, CVS is going to loose customers to walgreens including me.