Walgreens Pharmacy, Arlington TX

As I walked into the store, I heard two female workers gossiping rather loudly about a customer that was inside the store or had just left. One may have been management judging by the uniform. Red flag. I pick up a few items, then go to the pharmacy line, wait in line for almost 15 minutes (red flag), and approach. The pharmacist was RUDE and acted as if my presence was unwanted, to say the least. That was before I began talking. I sat down a toy for daughter (she always gets a toy when I'm out of town on business), DIABETIC test strips, DIABETIC socks, and DIABETIC travel lancets. He asks if im dropping off or picking up. I say picking up. I give him name, and as he types, I tell him that I need DIABETIC insulin syringes and begin to explain my situation of misplacing my travel case with DIABETIC supplies. He interrupts me mid sentence, stops typing, and says, "we don't have any. " Perplexed, I say, " none at all? That is a first. Are you sure? " I tell him situation again, try to anyways. He then says that they are "prescription only" because of the "crackheads. " I tell him I understand (although I'm fairly certain crack heads smoke their drugs) and convince him to type in my name so he can see for himself that I'm indeed a valid insulin dependent diabetic and not just a "crackhead" buying 30 plus dollars of diabetic supplies to sneak my way into the exclusive diabetic club. He sighs, types, then gets upset that the prescription on file are old and were already filled. Basically, I was scolded for seeing through his initial deception of being completely sold out and scolded for being a crackhead even though his system showed me as having filled insulin there before unless he believed I somehow was cured of diabetes and was buying a bunch of testing items to trick him into selling me a syringe. Luckily for me, I was able to drive around the corner to an urgent care since my bloodsugar was critical. This is perhaps the most pathetic excuse for a pharmacy I have yet to see and could prove very dangerous since customers are unethically and automatically lumped into a category "Drug addicted subhuman. "

My kid got detected with RSV and flu on Dec 25th during Christmas. All stores were out of Tylenol and Acetaminophen for kids. This walgreen got the Acetaminophen of different brand that helped and also told us a 24/7 pharmacy address which can provide prescribed meds. These are compassionate people working in this pharmacy.