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I used a bicycle in a Walgreens pharmacy drive though for the whole summer, and then one day a manager told me they won't serve me there anymore because of "safety reasons".
What they meant was for their safety, from liability, like if a car hit me.
I don't use Walgreens for prescriptions anymore.
im just going to walk up to the window with a sign that says "this is a car"
Reminds me of the last time I was in Texas and somebody called the cops on me because I didn't have a car
That's why I typically bring 2 cars when I go to Texas.
I think it says a lot about Texas that you aren't the first person who told me they had the cops called on them for not having a car there.
My cousin went there as a foreign exchange student, and she lived a mile away from the town center. So she walked, cause it's less than 20 minutes.
Then a cop car stopped beside her. First they were friendly, asking if her car broke down. But when she said she doesn't have a car, and is walking, they actually took her in for questioning.
Don't they need to charge her with something in order to do that?
That's the Welcome to Texas package.
Crime: Being in public while poor.
That is insane
I dunno. I get plenty of drugs from Uber drivers and there's less paperwork and they deliver them right to me. . It's not a terrible alternative really.
I genuinely thought this was a joke, fake or satire.
North American in a nutshell
Why can't the European mind comprehend hell?
No.
stands in drive through
Get absolutely fucked and then give me my God damn meds.
Also, stop violating the ADA.
Highly illegal.
Thanks.
So a bicycle would be fine
I don't understand why just walking up is apparently not fine
"safety" -s
afety?
Insurance. Or at least that's what the manager at starbucks said during the pandemic.
Well I hope their windows are also insured in that case
I've been to many places where they close the interior and only do drive thru.
Sometimes they will be completely ok with you just walking through the drive thru on foot.
Almost always any other cars that show up will have people inside who will act terrified, like you are completely insane and may at any moment attack them.
Even though they're the ones that just almost ran you over.
How the fuck is this acceptable?
This is what happens when a society agrees that to be part of it you need a car.
We used to order drive through on our skateboards.
Recently I walked to a drive through, and they refused service because I didn't have a car at the time. (Their inside was closed).
Guess I know where never to eat again.
I promise that the workers don't give a shit. They're not paid enough to care.
But they're being recorded 24/7 and if management sees them serving people who do not have cars in the drive thru, it'll be someone's ass.
Back in the day, cameras pretty much only existed for the cash register and entry/exit areas. Now, they need to put in laws to keep the companies from installing cameras in bathrooms... That shit is fucking everywhere.
The corpos at the top are mandating that anyone in the drive thru must meet a minimum requirement of a "vehicle" which cars and bikes are (at least in most places), but you, on foot, are not.
This is just them trying to avoid getting sued because you were standing in the drive thru waiting for food and some inattentive fuck pulls in after you've ordered and runs you down. It's really fucking stupid.
The idea that I think they were originally thinking is that people who are walking should go inside where they are reasonably safe from being run over to order/pick up/eat, then they started to keep the drive thru open later than the dining area, and here we are.
I get that they need to clean and whatnot, so they want to close the dining area, and that's fine, but close the dining area and leave the counter open so people can walk in and get take out FFS. It's basically just one strip of flooring that customers will walk into and out from while the seating area is closed, so not a big deal to run a mop over it and go home after closing time.
But nobody said corpos made sense.
I would 100% stand in the drive through and hold up traffic till they gave me my prescription.
Places that require a car for the drive thru are just leaving money on the table. I never understood that.
This is entirely a corpo policy to limit liability. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that they want to prevent people from standing in the drive thru since that carries the risk of them being hit/injured/harmed while waiting in the line.
Its literally a problem because corpos don't want to get sued for an idiot driver gassing their way through a drive thru and mowing someone down.
Honestly, given how lawsuit happy many people are, I'm not terribly surprised. What does surprise me though, is that they don't have a walk-up window in a pedestrian safe area. I guess the logic is that the pedestrians can just go inside, but when the drive thru is open late, after the dining/walk in area closes, you end up with stupid situations like the OP.
I hate corpos.
I'd assume they want to discriminate against people who are too poor to have cars because they think those people are more likely to be difficult customers, and since most people have cars they don't lose much business by doing this.
I think I already have trouble understanding why a pharmacy has the need for a drive through
I hate this community because my instinct to most posts is to downvote until I remember the OP is laughing at it, not with it. I guess that's where the 10 downvotes come from.
Wouldn't that be discrimination?
Yes, but it's not illegal discrimination.
Pedestrians aren't a protected group, and neither are poor people.
So they basically saying you should buy a car if you want some meds, or at the very least rent one.
They should put a courtesy tricycle beside the entrance.
I'd pretend to be driving an invisible car.
If you have to close one, why not the drive through? If you make people come in, they might remember they need to buy something else
Because let's say you're the only person who showed up to work today. Trying to fill prescriptions puts your back to the rest of the store, maybe even takes you behind shelves. Makes it easy for you to get held up. Also shoplifting but I'm more concerned about your safety. With the drive through, you can give desperate sick people their prescriptions, and people who want other stuff can get it elsewhere.
