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.
I genuinely thought this was a joke, fake or satire.
North American in a nutshell
Why can’t the European mind comprehend hell?
We do have drive-through restaurants and even some drive-in supermarkets in the center of cities. I just missed my train yesterday because the bus got stuck in traffic. I really hate how car-brained my country is (honorable mentions to exceptions: Hradec Králové, Pardubice and the other few towns in the Elbe lowland that have embraced bike infrastructure to about the standards of an average German town)
Bike infrastructure in a town? My province just made it illegal for any municipality nearly anywhere to build a bike lane.
Which province is that? Or at least what country
Ontario, Canada. The premier (similar to a governor) is over stepping cities, their elected officials, and betraying the people of Ontario. Years ago he ran for mayor of Toronto, Ontarios biggest city, they never elected him and now that he has provincial power he is throwing a temper tantrum. He also cut their city council in half for no justifiable reason. Toronto made significant progress and nearly had a functional bike network, now he is forcing the city to remove newly installed infrastructure.
But people still think his conservative government is “good with money.”
:/ that’s so messed up. I’m sorry.
what
lol
me and my homies using the drive thru
Fred Flintstone the place up.
I know it’s more expensive but this is why I always use the Uber black option.
Do the white drivers not wanna go to drive thru or what
I don’t think that’s what Uber black is.
I figured but I couldn’t figure out what the connection between Black and drive-thru is. There’s no Uber in my country, we have Bolt and sturr.
Reminds me of the last time I was in Texas and somebody called the cops on me because I didn’t have a car
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.
Nah it’s America
I think they can hold you for a set period of time before they have to charge you.
Not sure what they have to write on their paperwork for arresting you, but you basically can’t fight it unless you can call a lawyer to argue on your behalf.
That’s why I typically bring 2 cars when I go to Texas.
One in your luggage, one in your carry on.
One car for you, one for your gun
My belt buckle is a car
Crime: Being in public while poor.
In drive through?
Yeah, had to get an Uber just to get some Whataburger
I’m sure it’s a safety thing. You get hit by a car going through drive through it’s probably the fast food company’s liability.
Bleh
Why do you need a car to use the drive through?
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.
Insane*
*applies to america only, may have severe side effects such as latent brain problems, diminished capacity for thinking and lethargic behavior (amongst other symptoms).
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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.
Oh yeah they’re just waiting for their shift to end.
But overall, I’d rather have my statistic be somewhere that doesn’t have a drive thru in the first place.
Did this at a place near my old work. I drove 50 miles to work, so when on break I’d walk. They had the walk up closed one day, and told me I couldn’t go through the drive through. So I ate at the place next door every Friday instead. (The rest of the week I brought food). But I liked to live it up on Friday, haha. Not sure why it was closed that one day… But they lost my service every week following because of it
Same thing happened to me at a Maccas in perth, Australia… On a bicycle.
Does someone have a definitive answer to this? Do they not want people eating in the parking lot?
They probably don’t want to get sued when someone gets run over or such.
Same bullshit they hide behind when they say they can’t give the leftovers to the unhoused.
Yep, someone might get sick and therefore all this fresh food is going to waste. We can’t make them sick like that, but we are okay with watching them slowly starve to death.
This reminds me of an anecdote that a friend used to explain the actual meaning behind the trolly problem. He said, forget the trolly, you go out to lunch at the local sandwich shop (hoagies or whatever), and you get a foot long, but only eat half. You walk past a homeless man begging for food. If you choose not to give him the food you are now carrying, and that person later dies from starvation, are you morally guilty/at fault for them dying because you could have helped but you didn’t. On the flip side, you give them food, they later choke/vomit it up (aspirating it or choking on it), and that leads to their death. Since you gave them the food that they choked and died from, are you morally guilty of that persons death because they wouldn’t have had anything to choke on if you didn’t give it to them?
This situation with leftovers is the trolly problem made real. Are companies guilty of letting people starve and die, because they don’t want to be found guilty of making them sick (and possibly dying)? Are they, or would they be guilty of either?
Corpos only know that if someone gets sick from the food given out at the end of the day, they can sue. Dead people don’t sue you. So if they starve and die, then they’re not going to sue, but if they get sick but live, they might.
Corpos see this as a very black and white thing. Giving the food away poses an “unnecessary risk” for little to no benefit to the company. So they don’t do it.
Corpos are the worst.
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 think another part of it is they dont want “undesirables” entering the store. In my area the main entrance on the main road to a drug store is never open it is always locked. There 5 or 6 cashiers/checks outs on that side of the store that sit empty because they can’t manage security for 2 entrances. Instead the rear, car parking lot entrance is the only option. The rear entrance has only 1 cashier
If you walk to the store from the south you literally have to walk nearly an extra block to get all the way around to the back of the store. The same goes for a small mall nearby, some of the entrances are locked for just no reason at all which adds a lot to travel time, especially if you have mobility issues.
This can definitely be a factor. Depending on the area and other demographics.
Personally, I live in what appears to be a mostly “white” small community in a fairly rural town. Population is less than 10k. The local fast food chain closes the dining room before the drive thru here too. We’re too small of a community to have undesirables, and we’re 15 minutes from anywhere, and 20-30 minutes from any somewhat major city.
They still do it. The brain rot of corpos has no end.
They’ll be cruel to people who need accommodation because they can. They’re horrible people.
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.
Wealthier people are by far the most difficult customers. They think they’re entitled to everything because they’re “rich” and “above” wage slaves, so they get pissy and aggressive the moment something doesn’t go their way (and sometimes they’ll just make a ruckus for fun). Source: I worked in a few fast food restaurants in the south before
It was crazy for me working at a mexican restaurant and the only people who got argumentative over the $13 for a burrito with just 4 oz of meat (total rip-off) were the ones who could definitely afford it, while the poorer people just accepted it. And the wealthy people always came in again (usually regulars) and expected it to be more every time.
When i worked on pools, the millionaire with a massive “cottage” would argue over $5 worth of product or try to get a refund for unused chemicals the end of the season.
The family thats working hard to make ends meet barely ever argued. Our prices were fair and they want their kids to be able to enjoy their pool. They were always way more appreciative to the employees doing the work and were more likely to offer water, beer, and snacks.
Drive troughs have a very high turnover rate, don’t need space for tables or employees cleanup, etc.
But then why imply that you aren’t allowed to visit the drive through by foot?
Dont want people in the parking lot? Don’t want humans holding up cars?
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.
No.
stands in drive through
Get absolutely fucked and then give me my God damn meds.
Also, stop violating the ADA.
Highly illegal.
Thanks.
I think I already have trouble understanding why a pharmacy has the need for a drive through
They’re really annoying since they only do prescriptions. I suppose that’s useful sometimes but so is regular stuff. It seems like such a small part of their business
For example, one time my toddler was sick and my wife was out of town. I needed some Pedialyte and I forget what over the counter medicine, and it’s not like I could leave the little guy. I pull up in a cloud of stench with him vomiting out both ends, and begged them to let me buy stuff in the drive through. But nope, I had to take that into the store
Walgreens pharmacy line is around the store consistently where I’m at
I’ll spell it out.
WALMART
but… It does make sense. The elderly that can easily drive but not so easily walk benefit immensely. CVS and Walgreens in the US also have drive thrus usually.
I have my mother’s prescriptions delivered by her pharmacy, as it’s 100% USPS, but we have the Walmart as a backup if she needs something asap.
I love the drive through when my sick toddler has fallen asleep in the car on the way from the doctor’s to the pharmacy.
I guess in the US pharmacies aren’t located near doctors ? Even in cities ? Where I’m from I usually just have to walk 3-5 minutes if not less to find a pharmacy after I went to the doctor.
Oh. You just don’t understand America. Yeah, no, the pharmacy is a 10 minute drive from the doctor’s office. And that seems decently close.
Unless your doctor is in a hospital type setting; then there’s probably a pharmacy on site.
@Jomn @candybrie With a few exceptions, nothing in the US is close to something else, because their towns were built for cars, not for people, and most of their cities, which were originally built for people, were bulldozed over and rebuilt for cars.
I would 100% stand in the drive through and hold up traffic till they gave me my prescription.
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.
Yeah, but like, what’s the CEO of the insurance company’s name?
- 🤔 ***
Well I hope their windows are also insured in that case
They usually don’t like bikes either, not sure why this one is different.
Maybe because of some kind of a law that says that you have to allow vehicles through, idk?
(At least where I live, if a bike is on the road, it’s a vehicle, if it’s on a bike path, it’s a bike)
How the fuck is this acceptable?
It is not. Welcome to the fossil fuel dystopia.
I don’t like it here.
This is what happens when a society agrees that to be part of it you need a car.
They did this with smartphones too
im just going to walk up to the window with a sign that says “this is a car”
