WALGREENS CONTINUES TO SCREW NEIGHBORS
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Walgreens In Times SquareIt really amazes me how these places in Times Square get away with ripping off everyone. It really does. Every week I look at the ads for Walgreens and head over there and every week most of the stuff they advertise as on sale are not there. They refuse to have the circulars in the store too, to tell you whats on sale. I have complained about this to the Walgreens main office. They are all talk and all lies. You can read that story HERE.
Walgreens could care less about the people that live here. I am trying to get my apartment ready for a painting this Wednesday, and I want to get all my clothes washed tonight. So once again, I check the Walgreens ad, and I see Sun detergent on sale for $3.59. Knowing if I go over there, they most likely will not have it as always, but I head over there anyway, because I also needed a gallon of milk, and that was on sale. Lo and behold, they have no Sun Detergent and no Gallons of milk. I check my list that I wrote down on what was on sale, because I know they will not have any circulars for me, and sure enough, nothing. They did offer me a small bottle of detergent for $11.99. Can you imagine paying that much for a small bottle.
I have so had it with these places around here and Walgreens is the pits. I have told the company the corrections that needed to be made. They agreed with me on a phone call. That was a long time ago and no changes were ever made. So I stand by my original story that Walgreens in Times Square is a tourist trap. They are here to rip off the public and are not there to make the neighborhood better. They do nothing for the people that live here and rather cater to ripping off visitors to New York City. This is why so many people in my building will not shop there and we get our prescriptions filled at other places. We have a very old population that lives in this building and I can guarantee this building alone must spend 100 grand a month on medicines. But this business goes elsewhere.
It would seem that if Walgreens made a effort to be fair, they could expect so much more business. Not business from some visitor going there once in their life, but from the neighborhood people that would shop there on a daily basis.
SPRINT PCS PISSED OFF
I got my final bill from Sprint, since I switched to Metro PCS at half the cost. The next day it was followed by a demand for payment within 7 days, with a threat to report me to a credit agency if I didn't comply. I complied. What sour grapes. Wouldn't it have been better to send me the final bill and tell them they were sorry to lose a good 12 year customer? Couldn't they have said they hoped to have me as a customer again? Like I said in a recent story, I left Sprint because they fire Americans and hire overseas. They want Americans money, but they do not want to hire them. This is wrong with these big companies, and slowly but surely I am getting rid of them all.
MTA SUBWAYS AND BUSES
Any fool can see where all the loses for our transportation system is coming from.
These useless clerks in the booths. They are obsolete. They do nothing. Several times I have watched a clerk on 86th and Central Park West. I didn't see one customer. Everyone got their tickets from the machines. In Times Square, it seems the clerk sells nothing, but answers questions about the subway. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just have a information booth there?
In most of the other stations around NYC, these clerks do just about nothing. They have been filmed sleeping because they are so bored, yet the MTA and the City Of New York continue to bend to the unions demands that these are positions we need. Everytime there is talk of getting rid of the clerks, the unions come out with all these safety stories. Everytime there is a incident on a subway platform, they say if a clerk was there they could have helped. This is bull. Get rid of them.
MTA BACK DOOR FUN
The title says it all. The public gets screwed. I am really amazed at how much money we lose from people going through the back door of a bus. In the Bronx, everytime I ride the BX 12 line, 5 to 10 people go through the back door at each stop. This line alone must lose millions a month in uncollected fares. It really burns me up to see this everytime. I've said something to the drivers, and they ignore me. Now since this seems to happen in the boroughs of New York City, I bet billions are lost every year. You don't see this in Manhattan, below 93rd street. Never. There must be a way to put some device on every back door preventing this. The MTA is just so miss-run.
Photo By: James Edstrom
Walgreens could care less about the people that live here. I am trying to get my apartment ready for a painting this Wednesday, and I want to get all my clothes washed tonight. So once again, I check the Walgreens ad, and I see Sun detergent on sale for $3.59. Knowing if I go over there, they most likely will not have it as always, but I head over there anyway, because I also needed a gallon of milk, and that was on sale. Lo and behold, they have no Sun Detergent and no Gallons of milk. I check my list that I wrote down on what was on sale, because I know they will not have any circulars for me, and sure enough, nothing. They did offer me a small bottle of detergent for $11.99. Can you imagine paying that much for a small bottle.
I have so had it with these places around here and Walgreens is the pits. I have told the company the corrections that needed to be made. They agreed with me on a phone call. That was a long time ago and no changes were ever made. So I stand by my original story that Walgreens in Times Square is a tourist trap. They are here to rip off the public and are not there to make the neighborhood better. They do nothing for the people that live here and rather cater to ripping off visitors to New York City. This is why so many people in my building will not shop there and we get our prescriptions filled at other places. We have a very old population that lives in this building and I can guarantee this building alone must spend 100 grand a month on medicines. But this business goes elsewhere.
It would seem that if Walgreens made a effort to be fair, they could expect so much more business. Not business from some visitor going there once in their life, but from the neighborhood people that would shop there on a daily basis.
SPRINT PCS PISSED OFF
I got my final bill from Sprint, since I switched to Metro PCS at half the cost. The next day it was followed by a demand for payment within 7 days, with a threat to report me to a credit agency if I didn't comply. I complied. What sour grapes. Wouldn't it have been better to send me the final bill and tell them they were sorry to lose a good 12 year customer? Couldn't they have said they hoped to have me as a customer again? Like I said in a recent story, I left Sprint because they fire Americans and hire overseas. They want Americans money, but they do not want to hire them. This is wrong with these big companies, and slowly but surely I am getting rid of them all.
MTA SUBWAYS AND BUSES
Any fool can see where all the loses for our transportation system is coming from.
These useless clerks in the booths. They are obsolete. They do nothing. Several times I have watched a clerk on 86th and Central Park West. I didn't see one customer. Everyone got their tickets from the machines. In Times Square, it seems the clerk sells nothing, but answers questions about the subway. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just have a information booth there?
In most of the other stations around NYC, these clerks do just about nothing. They have been filmed sleeping because they are so bored, yet the MTA and the City Of New York continue to bend to the unions demands that these are positions we need. Everytime there is talk of getting rid of the clerks, the unions come out with all these safety stories. Everytime there is a incident on a subway platform, they say if a clerk was there they could have helped. This is bull. Get rid of them.
MTA BACK DOOR FUN
The title says it all. The public gets screwed. I am really amazed at how much money we lose from people going through the back door of a bus. In the Bronx, everytime I ride the BX 12 line, 5 to 10 people go through the back door at each stop. This line alone must lose millions a month in uncollected fares. It really burns me up to see this everytime. I've said something to the drivers, and they ignore me. Now since this seems to happen in the boroughs of New York City, I bet billions are lost every year. You don't see this in Manhattan, below 93rd street. Never. There must be a way to put some device on every back door preventing this. The MTA is just so miss-run.
Photo By: James Edstrom
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