Walgreens 12+

Enjoy discounts, sending pho gifts to recipients’ nearby stores

Discount codes often make framed gifts affordable: have sent a surprise photo taken from a text from Texas to a store near my sister in WI. Enjoy making my own “full photo” photo cards. Which are competitively priced with Hallmark greeting cards [Full photo means “blank card design, & no preprinted text; & YOU insert the photos & text, no predesigned format.] I make 5x7 cards both remotely from my iPhone XR & at in-store kiosks. By annotating photos with additional superimposed text using an iPhone app called “Annotable,” I get something much more “custom” than a Hallmark card. Have had trouble making cards from the PC, though I did make a greatly appreciated photo book that way, when I send photos making cards, even as big as 3.5 megabytes, the Walgreens site incorrectly tells me the image is low resolution, and indeed cards ordered from the PC look bad. Other problems: I have an old-school “one armed paper cutter” like teachers used to use, at home, and often have to trim my cards which frequently are not folded precisely. It’s almost routine for me: I don’t like edges that are not flush but may be as much as 1/4” out of line. But, the speed of pickup quickly and ability to have things redone if color is ever off are great.

Good and bad

I’ve used Walgreens photo app for a few years now. It’s convenient and fairly easy to navigate. However, most times it takes FOREVER to upload, which is an issue if your phone sleeps before its finished. The color is typically good and photos are clear, which is why I gave three stars.

My biggest issue is that so much of the picture is cut off each time. I’ve been told to go to the crop option and adjust the edges, but it still doesn’t help. For example, a few of my students wanted a selfie of us. We knew those on the edges would have a tiny bit cut off, but on the original it’s a little hair not in the frame. Even after checking the crop feature to make sure the frame was as large as possible, it cut the people off on each side so much that we each had half a face! Seriously, it went from being fully in the picture (minus a little hair), to each of us having the entire side of our faces, including one eye and half a nose, completely gone. My six year old students have been very disappointed. This has been an ongoing issue with multiple photos. Walgreens employees have not been successful in helping, so something needs done farther up in the co.

Lastly, why can’t an order be saved, so if it glitches everything isn’t lost? Again tonight I spent over an hour editing over a hundred photos. When I clicked next it glitched and was gone. Because of this, I changed it to two stars. This has happened WAY too many times.

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APP is good, needs better integration with pharmacy.

As someone new to needing multiple medications I downloaded this to obviously manage it. Still learning the ins and outs of it, but does provide plenty of options. Improvements needed? 1. Need to be able to transfer prescription without having the bottle. IE: Doctor phones in prescription to your pharmacy; when you go to pick it up you find pharmacy is temporarily closed until further notice(nice that there is nothing in place to prevent really needed prescription from going to a pharmacy that is closed) . No way to transfer unless you call the doctor to have them send to a different pharmacy. Narcotic you say? Now my insurance company sees two prescriptions for the same drug on the same day and will not authorize the second one! Preventing me from getting it when actually needing it. 2. I did not realize a drug I no longer needed was on autofill. Within minutes of getting the notice they were going to refill I went and put a cancel request in. 5 days later I am still getting texts, voicemails stating my prescription is ready for pickup. If it wasn’t for the difficulty of reaching the pharmacy by phone? I guess the APP has the same issues.
APP has notification preferences that doesn’t work either. Set for no phone calls no emails etc. now they are hounding me for another prescription I don’t need to be refilled. It’s like they want my business but harassing me to the point of driving me away to a different pharmacy.