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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWalmart really sucks! Went to my Covid vaccine appointment today.
Last edited Wed Mar 31, 2021, 11:29 PM - Edit history (1)
Had their confirmation email for the appointment I made a week ago, it even specified it would be for Pfizer vaccine. Took time off work for a 2:00 appointment slot, checked in at the pharmacy and then they told me there was a scheduling error and no vaccine was available! There were several other folks waiting to check in after me, too.
The pharmacist told me he could schedule me for the following Wednesday for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
They had my name, address, phone number, email and even insurance information.
Why the hell couldnt they call and tell me there was no vaccine that day??
They wanted people to come in anyway hoping wed buy some crap in their shitty ass store!
I had not been to Walmart in years, gave them a chance and they failed again. NEVER AGAIN!
SheltieLover
(59,109 posts)So sorry to hear.
CountAllVotes
(21,017 posts)How disgusting and greedy!
I hate hate hate Walmart!
I hope you can get vaccinated soon!!!!!
onecaliberal
(35,391 posts)Are free if you dont have insurance.
CountAllVotes
(21,017 posts)I suppose this is the case as I saw it on the local news the other day.
onecaliberal
(35,391 posts)CountAllVotes
(21,017 posts)Same place the first place was at -- a drive-up!
Did not even have to get out of the car.
onecaliberal
(35,391 posts)MLAA
(18,406 posts)They have a very small pharmacy. Got my first one there as well.
MFM008
(19,981 posts)fred meyer - walgreen, rite aid and SVC(scv) are all giving them out in Lakewood Wa area
even dentists office and my private doctor are doing it now...
multigraincracker
(33,835 posts)I get great service from my local independent pharmacy. They seem to have been left out on these shots.
chillfactor
(7,675 posts)i have an appt at Walmart on the 12th. I will call to make sure they have the vaccine before I leave the house.
Grasswire2
(13,681 posts)...due to a processing error that ruined millions of doses, we hear today.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)contracting to do the Pfizer vaccine. It was a contamination issue (the reactors apparently had small remnants of the contractors own vaccine in them when the Pfizer vaccine processing was started).
mobeau69
(11,433 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)as being affected. I could have mis-read, but I am fairly sure that I did not. But you are right, later articles clearly said J&J, including one that I read late last night that did not give a number for the amount of bad doses.
LisaL
(46,190 posts)Pfizer is fine.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,597 posts)In our area a lot of places had to reschedule vaccine appointments due to lack of supply a few times, though they should at least have notified you before you showed up.
Of course if an expected shipment simply didn't arrive and they lacked notice, there may not have been anything they could do.
ecstatic
(34,171 posts)with regard to covid-testing and, I assume, vaccine appointments as well. I got tested at CVS today, it was very disorganized and a long wait.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)What is being done now is the equivalent of fighting and winning WWII in three months. Getting 330 million people vaccinated in a few months is not easy, even with a competent President and team in place.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Patterson
(1,569 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)No issues. First time I've set foot in Walmart in almost a year.
obnoxiousdrunk
(3,017 posts)is a J&J error. They had some kind of processing error.
mobeau69
(11,433 posts)MFM008
(19,981 posts)at Safeway, he thought there would be a huge line....there was one other person, an older Asian-American
lady who told him she was afraid of it...he put her mind at rest.
They were in and out......
then he got hammered by side effects for 2 days .
To be fair he hadn't had a shot since he was 8 years old.......
he will get his second one...
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)We had to establish an account with them. Its just your email and a password. Must do a separate account for each family member. You get a time and confirmation number.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)one person giving the shot and prepping vaccine for use. But their system overall was very smooth, a person to check you in, one to enter you in the queue, one to give the shot (could have used another, even two other people for this task), a person to check you out and another to monitor you for 15 minutes. If it wasnt for the slowness of getting the actual shot, I would give it an A+, instead they didnt have the right level of emphasis on the most critical step, so I give the company a B.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Demovictory9
(33,442 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)there were signs up, at Walgreens, etc. to get shots. I went straight from the airport to a Walgreens. Hope its that easy again on June 10th.
What Im saying is try your local drug stores, no appointment necessary. Good luck!!!👍🍀
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