• CVS

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1.5 / 5
Better Business Bureau
1.1 / 5
Corporate Values

Overview

CVS has a rating of 2.96 stars from 493 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about CVS most frequently mention customer service, next day, and drug store problems. CVS ranks 106th among Cosmetics sites.

  • Service
    112
  • Value
    93
  • Shipping
    39
  • Returns
    39
  • Quality
    69
Positive reviews (last 12 months): 22%
Positive
20
Neutral
2
Negative
69
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What reviewers want you to know

Positive highlights

  • We have shopped at CVS here since they opened and have always had great customer service, a hello when we enter.

Critical highlights

  • There is nothing positive that I can say about my local CVS pharmacy.
How would you rate CVS?
Top Positive Review

“CVS Health otc shopping Department is not meeting satisfaction goal.”

Abdu M.
6/30/23

CVS HEALTH. OTC Benefits through catalogue. Cx's should not receive any gummie vitamin or meds. Through the shipping or mail unless your packaging is to keep such like items safe from the heat. This common sense. You sent items you know will melt if not package correctly. Seniors have placed hope this benefit and to have your mind set on an item only to receive is not good. If it was an oversight ok but still the feedback from your customers should be taken seriously.

Top Critical Review

“Lousy, uncaring supervisory customer care”

Howard G.
5/9/23

Just out of the hospital where my cardiologist changed my prescription for a medication that, ironically had been delivered during my hospital stay. Operator was willing to send a return label but her supervisor denied it because "it had been renewed via the internet". What a lame and uncaring response especially since CVS got the prescription for the replacement medication. Advice: stay away from CVS. They don't care about you.

Reviews (493)

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Thumbnail of user howardg426
1 review
1 helpful vote
May 9th, 2023

Just out of the hospital where my cardiologist changed my prescription for a medication that, ironically had been delivered during my hospital stay. Operator was willing to send a return label but her supervisor denied it because "it had been renewed via the internet". What a lame and uncaring response especially since CVS got the prescription for the replacement medication. Advice: stay away from CVS. They don't care about you.

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medication

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Thumbnail of user robbiem212
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 7th, 2023

CVS will never have all of your prescriptions at the same time. They will either tell you their machine is down or I have all but or our shipment didn't even come today Etc lies! I am now again without a prescription I must take every day. CVS does not care instead of just telling you you need to go to another location or another Drug Company all together they just let you suffer they we'll just get your money from the next person. So go ahead and die they don't care!

Thumbnail of user jm1656
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 20th, 2023

The price of OTC medications and General Merchandise at CVS is more expensive then it should be. This is a large chain and as such buys in bulk and gets preferential pricing which it does not pass to customers. Every product such as aspirin, Tylenol etc was cheaper to begin with in Harmons. This is a grossly overpriced store. They have even been sued in several states for overpricing prescription drugs. It's ridiculous. The V in cvs stands for value something you really don't get at this store!

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Thumbnail of user slb627
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 28th, 2023

CVS is becoming more of a hinderance to my health than any good. I cannot take my medication consistency on a month basis because of their lack of….so much. They should not be in business. They fill and make decisions based on their own judgements. I constantly have to go without meds that most pharmacist and all doctors advise you to never stop abruptly….it's ethically and morally disrupt. They withhold medication that is detrimental to go without.

Thumbnail of user mormortg2001
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 8th, 2023

When will senior management deal with the bad morale and stressed out staff. Not to mention those excessively long register receipts that have coupons that expire before you can get back to use them. My sense is Senior Management is too greedy to care. After all it cost a lot to maintain 4 private jets.

Tip for consumers:
Try Walgreens

Products used:
Various

Thumbnail of user m.mmar40s
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 30th, 2023

CVS HEALTH. OTC Benefits through catalogue. Cx's should not receive any gummie vitamin or meds. Through the shipping or mail unless your packaging is to keep such like items safe from the heat. This common sense. You sent items you know will melt if not package correctly. Seniors have placed hope this benefit and to have your mind set on an item only to receive is not good. If it was an oversight ok but still the feedback from your customers should be taken seriously.

Thumbnail of user jeanneh327
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 8th, 2023

Can never get a prescription filled without some problems. They refill orders that are not auto refill. Say they don't have prescription refill orders when they do, just not looking, since doctor writes out a prescription for 1 month (dates them for each month until next recheck need for the medicine in 3 months) and sends to the pharmacy. Medication is one that shouldn't be stopped all at once.
They only 1 time admitted to this mistake.
Get so pissed off at them I could scream.

Products used:
Not applicable

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Thumbnail of user steve.zucci
1 review
1 helpful vote
July 7th, 2023

They take no responsibility for their errors because of course they are perfect. There have been way to many hassles with them filling my prescriptions in a timely manner. Robo call tells you it's ready and half the time it's not. Some of their employees are very rude without consequence

Thumbnail of user dthoman57
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 24th, 2023

When I go to sign in on the CVS app for prescriptions, when I put in my password it always says invalid password. So I reset the password and the prompt tells me that it has been accepted, but then when I go to sign in again it says invalid password. So I go through the whole thing over and over again changing the password having it accepted and then it tells me invalid password again. There was a time when that app worked perfectly fine and I never had any trouble with it, but not now. I don't even want to deal with it anymore.

Thumbnail of user lisak1784
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
July 24th, 2023

Bad customer service. If I could give it zero stars i would. I have had 3 bad out of 4. Long waits. When I bring up and issue with the phone # they tell me I need to fix it by calling corporate. Maybe I am old fashioned, but what happened to customer service. I waited over 30 minutes with only one car in front of me.

Tip for consumers:
Do better!

Products used:
Pharmacy, I left with nothing.

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Thumbnail of user sandraberryman123
1 review
1 helpful vote
August 11th, 2023

Always long lines. Takes days to get prescriptions filled. Drive thru usually closed. Usually can't get thru on the phone no matter how long you wait. There is nothing positive that I can say about my local CVS pharmacy. I don't blame the employees. There is just never, ever enough help there.

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Thumbnail of user lorih1226
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
August 9th, 2023

Ordered a CeraVe Moisturizing Cream from CVS online. This cream is a lifesaver for my dry skin, especially during the harsh winter months. It's non-greasy, absorbs quickly, and is free from any irritating fragrances. The shopping experience on CVS was intuitive with clear product descriptions, and I even snagged a discount

Products used:
CeraVe Moisturizing Cream

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Thumbnail of user pamjcoffman
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 28th, 2023

They can't answer phones. You can call or be standing in the store when the phones are going crazy and no one seems to even care. I am forever not having my medication when I need to take it. I take Trulicity for my A-1c and they can't seem to ever get it on time. They wait until the day before I need it and then say oh we can't get it right now. This is ridiculous. Was with Walgreens for 20 years and never had issues. Sad day when insurance made us switch to this incompetent company.

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Thumbnail of user haroldh505
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 24th, 2023

I am African American and have been treated terribly by CVS Pharmacy. I have a chronic health condition and CVS has deliberately tried to prevent me from obtaining my medication. Staff has yelled at me in front of other customers. I believe that CVS has an issue with me because of my ethnicity. Staff are extremely rude and unprofessional. They would rather have me get sick instead of assisting with my healthcare. They want me to get sick. That is why I have been having problems getting the medications I need. They want my health to fail because of my ethnicity. I have experienced the same problems with two pharmacies. This must stop immediately before someone gets sick and dies.

Tip for consumers:
CVS needs competent pharmacy managers. Customer service needs to be improve before customers become ill and die.

Products used:
Prescriptions.

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Thumbnail of user dreyerjeanne0
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 17th, 2023

The person who answered the phone called me a liar when I tried to return an online lipstick that had already been used… what an ifiot

Tip for consumers:
Unbelievably rude and obnoxious I think CVS is going under

Products used:
I never used the lipstick the seal was broken and the online cust svc called me a liar

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Thumbnail of user mariap2733
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 6th, 2023

I went to the CVS in Rockwell, I had a 40% off coupon,my item was $30 and she took out her calculator and said it would be $28. I said do you really think 40% off $30 is $28? She said yes and showed me her calculator and looked at me like I was stupid. I never got to use the 40% off because there's only so long you can argue with idiots. She still thinks she was right and was acting like I was being a pain in the butt.

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Thumbnail of user angelab2974
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 14th, 2023

They don't properly train you the right way in the minute clinic. CVS will hire you then degrade you for not being properly trained. In the period of their orientation they will fire you on your day off then point the finger at you. Then to say you're terminated! They wouldn't give you don't stand a chance their be careful when looking for employment cause CVS doesn't give a damn!

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Thumbnail of user malissaannwilson
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 12th, 2023

With the shortage on certain medications you would think that certain staff could at least be a bit kinder to the customers. There is one particular staff member ( I will not make her name public out of respect, even though she doesn't really deserve respect) who has been with CVS for many years, and I have never once witnessed her be kind, or non-condescending to customers. I worked at this location many years ago with this staff member and I believe she goes out of her way to be cruel. I will no longer use CVS for my prescriptions for myself or my family. Yes, one bad apple can ruin the bunch.

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Thumbnail of user richardb5386
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 29th, 2023

Our local CVS pharmacy failed to provide us with free COVID test kits even though we are on Medicare and their website said they do. Then, after I contacted them in writing three times asking them to remedy the situation and reimburse us for the price of the kits, they were so unprofessional as to not even respond to our request one way or the other. CVS was our pharmacy of choice; now it is on our DO NOT PATRONIZE list.

Tip for consumers:
My scanner only outputs .pdf files, so I could not upload the receipt as an image file.

Products used:
COVID at-home test kits.

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Thumbnail of user occasionalpaine
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 14th, 2023

I had to battle CVS to receive my medications and my pain medications were always on back order. Horrific service, zero follow-ups, and totally uncaring staff. A really sad environment to get healthy.

Thumbnail of user rhodam41
1 review
0 helpful votes
July 31st, 2023

In the past two weeks I interacted with Pharmacist Ben. On the first occasion, the pharmacist told me there is a new pneumonia medication and wondered if I had received it. I told him I was seeing my doctor at the end of the week and would inquire from him as to whether I should get it. Last week I picked up a medication and Pharmacist Ben had attached a memorandum calling attention to the fact that this drug may interact negatively with another I am taking. I emailed my doctor who replied that this caveat is true in some cases, but my dosage was so low that it is not a problem. In both cases I was so grateful that Pharmacist Ben, in the midst of a very busy practice, took time to speak with me and later attach a memorandum to my prescription. I am blessed to have such a caring pharmacist.

Tip for consumers:
No.

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medications

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Thumbnail of user donnaq662
1 review
0 helpful votes
May 14th, 2023

CVS charges $8.99 for a family size box of Cheerios
18 ounces. That is outrageously price gouging and about $4.00 higher than any other store. Most of the boxes on the shelf were damaged, they were either crushed or split down one side because the box was poorly glued.

Thumbnail of user blueberryj
1 review
0 helpful votes
June 9th, 2023

Their website needs a lot of work to resolve a lot of issues. It's buggy, it's difficult to check your orders/status, sometimes the orders section goes blank, etc. Customer service is only reachable telephonically and via email. They should get with the times and have chat support.

Thumbnail of user tinat783
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 26th, 2023

Put in for a simple Rx refill. Literally 3 weeks later they still have multiple excuses why it wasn't filled. First they said it was not in stock on the phone then after the app says 2 weeks later it will be ready on the coming Sunday I go there the next day and they say oh the insurance won't let us fill because it only for 30 days and not 90 days. Wtf is that first of all! You should be able to get 30 days if you want, who is the insurance dictating how many days of meds you can get. Then cvs corrected that and then said it will be ready the next day. I drive over there the next and now they say it's out to stock so now it's been 3 weeks. Later after I'm home they said cvs in another part of the city has plenty so why can't they transfer the med to my primary pharmacy in the first place instead of making me wait weeks for a med that I need to take daily. I use the app to get the medication delivery. Delivery person apparently came to my complex but never rang the doorbell or anything. I call Cvs and they said med was returned to them because no one opened the door! Seriously?! They can't reset it in their system so Now I have to wait another few days to get the med. This is absolutely ridiculous!

Tip for consumers:
Thinking of changing pharmacy so I don’t have to deal with this crap again

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Thumbnail of user sallyc611
1 review
0 helpful votes
August 18th, 2023

I was notified I had 3 prescriptions ready I clearly explained that one of my prescriptions was unneeded because it is as needed med that I didn't use often. I asked the person to hold it and take it off auto refill just as I had multiple times before. But I needed the other 2 meds. She put 1 up and I proceeded to get the 2 meds. When I got home I found they had given the one I didn't need and not the one I needed. So I went to day to correct the problem. The same person that messed it up was there and she acted like I was in the wrong. When I protested the pharmacist got very rude, at one point telling me to 'move along'. Needless to say I will never enter that store again and my future prescriptions are transferred to another pharmacy already.

Products used:
Prescriptions

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