If I had a CVS locally, or any other pharmacy locally other than Walgreens, I would have already transferred my prescriptions. A few years back, our local independent pharmacy was bought when the owner retired, with the stipulation to not sell to a chain pharmacy. A year later, the new owners were in such bad debt and getting a divorce, and Walgreens bought out the client list. There was no local alternative other than driving a half hour or more to get meds elsewhere.

We've had so many problems with our local Walgreens that the only reason I haven't transferred to anything else is because of the lack of competition here. And if I only had a few medications I could do it, but given that I'm on dialysis and picking up meds at times three times a week, and am there weekly, it's a hardship to have to travel out of town for anything more than I have to. To make matters worse, the area management for Walgreens has drastically cut work hours for its workers and pushed out quality and experienced pharmacists here in the name of profit.

In other words, if you have the ability, transfer your meds to CVS.

Edit: I have a long list of problems from dealing with our local Walgreens, including:

• Taking 24 days to fill a 30 day prescription for blood pressure meds. As a dialysis patient, these are critical to prevent me from having a stroke or bleeding out at dialysis. I went two weeks without because of that. And while dialysis has their own pharmacy, I've been told by dialysis staff that it's just as bad.

• Regularly out of blood pressure medications.

• Randomly closes the pharmacy a various days of the week, without prior notice. So if that one day was the day you needed to pick up medications, you're out of luck. They have a sign up pointing to the nearest 24 hour pharmacy, but if you have a medication with a prior authorization, going to the other pharmacy restarts the prior authorization process.

• Changing how vaccinations are prescribed. I used to get all my vaccines there until they changed to a pharmacist prescriber. My insurance does not allow a pharmacist to prescribe. It took a few days of phone calls to finally find someone in the region (yes, region) to let me get a Covid shot. Same now for flu shots. Prior to this, the local doctors sent people there for all vaccinations.

• Losing my insurance card, calling me lazy, and then blaming me for it, more than once. Usually someone would find it there later that day, usually in the garbage.