Thank you to Soldotna’s Safeway and parent company Albertsons. Offering prescription drug pickup at their “Drive Up and Go” is great community service. During the COVID-19 pandemic, my wife and I, both considered high-risk on several levels, were told to come into another Soldotna supermarket for our vitally needed prescriptions or go to another store. With no other option, I went into the store’s pharmacy, sick with COVID and endangering others — even though we had a grocery pickup waiting on the other side of the parking lot. The pharmacist said she was too busy. Nationwide, patients experience similar situations.
We wrote letters to Fred Meyer-Kroger and Safeway-Albertsons concerning the dire need for prescription drug pick-up arrangements outside their stores. No word from Fred Meyer. Safeway management immediately responded and said they would look into this important service.
True to their promise, they created a prescription “Drive Up and Go” pickup program. As Dylan Wilt of Safeway Soldotna said, “We are proud of our Albertsons company. Albertsons heard our customers and created prescription drug pick-up at Drive Up and Go. Thank you.”
— Stephen Stringham
Soldotna
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