Complaint Review: WALGREENS

My name is Hal. A good customer of Walgreens for more than 30 years, I will not walk inside a Walgreens now. I will not support a corrupt company without ethics. If you care about doing the right thing, I suggest you not support Walgreens in any way. Boycott Walgreens. There is a Rite Aid, CVS, Walmart, Costco or independent pharmacy in your area you can spend your money at.

I am only now exposing the horror I experienced as a result of the incompetence and stupidity of an Assistant manager named Gary at store #4261, located in Daytona Beach, Florida where I lived at the time. As a result of the experience, I moved out of the State of Florida and discarded my business which employed more than 45 people. The horrid event still affects me and I do not sleep a full nights rest as a result of the experience. I am scared of any Walgreens when I drive past. They condone and defend bad management. 

On a Sunday morning in February, I was working in my home office when two female Daytona Beach Policewomen came to my door with another woman who was living with me. The woman was an abusive, sick alcoholic who I had already bought an airline ticket for her to travel home in two weeks.

The police stated that, I had beat her that morning and that I had been beating her up previously. Startled, I was in shock. I am 55 and have never been in a physical altercation my entire life. I grew up in a peaceful Jewish household and violence is foreign to me. The thought that I would try to resolve anything by hitting someone is repulsive and absurd. Anyone that knows me knows that. Conversely, this woman had been violent toward me in the preceding weeks from her drunken states. I did not buy this woman alcohol and did not give her money accept for cigarettes.

Apparently, this woman walked up to the Walgreens while I was in my office, bought a bottle of vodka at the Walgreens, drank it in front of the store like a vagrant and collapsed. She had a fresh scrape on her head. I asked what that was about and the Police said tell it to the judgeturnaround, youre under arrest for domestic battery. I couldnt believe it. I was handcuffed and taken to jail.

Totally innocent, when I got out of jail, I went directly to the Police department to retrieve a copy of the taped recording of the original Police call from Gary, the Assistant Manager at Walgreens. 

Obviously the Neanderthal Gestapo tactics of the Daytona Beach Police didnt help. The Police tape revealed that the Walgreens Gary said we have a woman out front whose husband beat her up and dropped her off she is disoriented . I was not her husband, I did not drop her off and I did not beat her up. The incredibly dumb Police believed this idiot Gary. The Police just wanted to arrest a man, regardless of the truth.

The Police did not even give the woman a sobriety test. They just assumed I was guilty and were not interested in allowing me to discuss it. I had not been drinking at all. All over the State of Florida, Police are wrongfully arresting men every day for domestic battery at the whim of any woman who wants to call the Police to even a score or get back at a man since the new rule of no questions, just arrest is being abused. Once determined innocent, the Police will never go back to arrest the women for false claims.

I guarantee every one of these wrongful complaints are from women on drugs or alcohol. The Police do not care. It seems that Florida Police Departments will arrest any man anywhere a woman states he hit me, causing a hell in the mans life. I have spoken to many of these poor men. This situation should not be confused with real domestic violence. Thats another story and I feel sorry for those women.   

Once out of jail and after 4 months of court dates and cooperation with the court, they could not prosecute me. They had no case. The woman long gone did not show up in court. The case was dismissed. I paid my attorney thousands of dollars, left my business I was a partner in, and rushed to get the hell out of hell. Anyone living in Daytona Beach is just plain stupid. It is a primitive place full of struggling people. Business associates I left behind owning businesses there, have all closed. Daytona is a city of low-lifes. You are forewarned. Nascar or the Daytona Speedway seems to control the town.

Its clear to me that Walgreens CEO Jeffrey A Rein does not care at all about my incident. After writing to the CEO, he passed it off to their legal department which angrily refuted any responsibility. This proves Walgreens is a completely irresponsible corporation with no conscience.

Walgreens never apologized and is in 100% denial of any wrongdoing. Thats how blind to the truth they are. Obviously only interested in protecting their dumbest managers and their companys profits. They refused to reimburse me for any of my expenses, lost income or anything else. I was just totally screwed by Walgreens! There was ZERO just compensation for their insane actions.

My life has been changed forever. The punitive damages are irreversible. Put yourself in my place and youll have a hard time staying calm. Keep in mind I did not even step inside the Walgreens that day and yet Gary felt it was acceptable to call the Police on me.

I have added up my receipts from purchase made at other Pharmacies since this event, and they add up to more than $7,000.00, I expect to spend much more at other Pharmacies other than Walgreens before I die. 

After reading this, if you spend a cent at Walgreens you are soul-less. Find a Pharmacy you can trust.