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Rentia Van Blommenstein -
a year ago
To whom this may concern:
I need to start by saying that the staff at Dischem De Wiekus are always friendly and ready to help.
I did however encounter a situation yesterday 05.10.2021 where I was not very happy.
All Dischem pharmacies offer the following service at the pharmacy section:
Prescriptions
Self-medication
Collections
I mail my prescription through for the reason that I do not have to wait in a long queue to be assisted.
Yesterday however I found myself for the second time in the self-medication queue having to wait to be assisted.
I decided that I will not wait, skipped the queue and went to the front of the queue, where I have asked a lady that passed me on her way behind the counter, to please assist.
Long story short, the pharmacist at the self-medication desk asked me if there was a problem and I explained that I do not understand how the queues are working seeing that there is no one to assist.
He then explained that he is the only one behind the counter and that the queue I need to stand in, is the self-medication queue.
He asked I would like to be helped but then the people in the self-medication queue is going to be unhappy???
If you as a pharmacy is going to offer the service of collections, you honestly cannot expect of your clients to wait in a long queue to be assisted due to being short staffed.
Either scrap that of your service or change your queue to read “Self-medication AND collections”
And if you do go for the above option, then at least myself and other clients will know to rather visit another Dischem.
I may add that on my way out after paying, the lady that was in front of me in the self-medication queue was still waiting in the queue.