WALGREENS, THE PHARMACY
AMERICA CANNOT TRUST 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 night’s 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 judge…turnaround, you’re under arrest for domestic battery”. I couldn’t
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 didn’t help. The Police tape revealed that the
Walgreen’s 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 man’s life. I have spoken to many of these poor
men. This situation should not be confused with real domestic violence. That’s
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.
It’s 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. That’s how blind to the truth they are.
Obviously only interested in protecting their dumbest managers and their company’s
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 you’ll 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.
