Safeway Pharmacy

"If you need to get medication in a hurry, don't use this pharmacy. There were waits of more than an hour 2 days in a row and I ended up having to go elsewhere to get my generic prescription filled."

"Early afternoon on Sept. 22, I received the wrong vaccine shot (flu instead of the latest COVID) at Safeway Pharmacy in The Dalles. After my spouse and I filled out the lengthy paperwork and spent an hour in the waiting room (the Pharmacy was busy), we finally got our shots. But the assistant (Toni) who administered my shot glibly dismissed my request for her to enter the vaccine information on my COVID card, saying that “we don’t bother with doing that anymore”. (Had she done so, the error presumably would have been caught right then and there.) It was only hours later that I discovered a voicemail from the pharmacist (Greg Warner) asking me to call back. He said that they had discovered their vaccine mistake minutes after we left, and profusely apologized for it. Several internet websites indicate that occurrences of administering the wrong vaccine are “rare”. Regardless, whichever facility you may choose for receiving your shots, you may well want to triple-check what vaccines(s) you are to about to receive. Obviously, staff should already be doing this, themselves, but ---!"

"Out if stock and items after 4 weeks are still nor in. But Rite Aid has it. Today almost an hour in line for something you consistently fill wrong. No line at Rite Aid. Time to move ALL my biz to a better place"

"This is the worst pharmacy I’ve ever dealt with. I’ve been trying to get meds filled here for 2 weeks transferred from another Safeway. Today they have a paper sign hanging that says they are opening “around 3pm”. I’ve come twice today, and now there is a huge line. They never answer the phone when you call. What a nightmare. I am definitely switching to another pharmacy."

"As bad as any other with robo-calls and text messaging service advises Customers to retrieve product only to turn us away empty handed after waiting in line. Best excuse recently came from a female Tech, Toni, who told me my insurance changed your group number! She actually thought I'd believe Regence BCBS changed all of Wasco County employees group number... Lying to cover their tracks, the harassment never ends. Truth is my prescription was sold to someone else within the 24-hours I went there to retrieve it. To remedy the impact of their insults, hire a courier to absorb the abuse and with any luck, pick up your meds."