Walgreens - Three Things I Like About...

First. 

Pictures of the six local locations. Emphasis added.

If there's a national retailer...

that has higher...

standards for...

pedestrian access to...

it's buildings...

I'd like to see it.

I wonder if there's ever been a board member who wondered if they were opening themselves up to some sort of liability problem by inviting people to walk across their parking lots to get into the building. I mean really, they're practically inviting someone to walk there.

Second.

The Walgreens iPhone App.

Seriously amazing to me. When my prescription runs empty I scan the barcode on the bottle with my phone. Before long there's a freshly filled prescription waiting for me to pickup. And with express pay I don't even have to find a way to pay.

This is easily my favorite iPhone App.

Finally.

We don't serve your kind.

So there I was parked and waiting patiently in the pharmacy drive-up this morning waiting to pick up a freshly filled prescription. I think I frustrated the pharmacist because she was having difficulty understanding my words. I've noticed there's a certain temperature that numbs my face enough that it changes the way my talking sounds. I think she had had enough when she decided to tell me that usually they don't serve bicycle riders in the drive-up. 

"It's a liability issue for us."

Why is this a favorite thing for me? Well, picking up prescriptions could be much more interesting and exciting. I wonder what the worst possible thing might be.