Walgreens

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. Late one night, a delivery driver pulled up to Walgreens with a mysterious package marked ‘DO NOT OPEN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.’ Inside, everyone soon discovered, was an old photo album filled with pictures of long-forgotten neighborhood events. As it turned out, the photos were from a local festival that nobody remembered anymore. The delivery driver, a quiet guy no one knew well, ended up becoming the hero of the day when he recognized some of the people in the pictures and helped identify them. From then on, everyone in town started calling him 'Mr. Memory'—and whenever someone needed help finding their old medicine or remembering where they parked, there he was.

2. At dawn, an early riser jogged past Walgreens and noticed something odd: the pharmacist’s cat had taken over the front counter, dispensing aspirin like it was playing fetch. Just then, a delivery driver walked in asking for ibuprofen. The cat looked up, yawned, and gracefully leaped off the counter. With a wink, it motioned towards a nearby shelf, where the human pharmacist later found a sign reading ‘Ask Me Tomorrow’.

3. In the quiet hours before dawn, a neighbor passing by Walgreens caught a strange whiff of freshly baked cookies wafting from inside. Curious, they peered through the window and saw nothing unusual—just the pharmacist diligently working behind the counter. But every morning after that, the same sweet scent lingered in the air. One day, an early-morning delivery driver stopped by for pain relievers and asked the pharmacist if he’d been baking cookies. The pharmacist shook his head no, but as soon as he said it, the aroma became overwhelmingly strong. Turns out, the driver had accidentally left his own cookie tin in the car, and everyone in town got a free morning treat!

4. In the dead of night, when most pharmacies were closed, a delivery truck approached Walgreens with its headlights off. The driver could barely make out the sign in the dim streetlight, but he knew it was the right place. As he pulled up, an old man in a bathrobe appeared from behind the counter and asked, 'What took you so long? I've been waiting for my prescription!' Turns out, it was just the neighborhood pharmacist who stayed late every night to avoid traffic.