For younger customers, hold onto your hats. This is a trip into the past. And that's an amazing trip. Tom, the owner, is not only a brilliant pharmacist, but he could be considered as a treasured family member. He actually does care about each customer....
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For younger customers, hold onto your hats. This is a trip into the past. And that's an amazing trip. Tom, the owner, is not only a brilliant pharmacist, but he could be considered as a treasured family member. He actually does care about each customer. AMAZING! Pucci's Pharmacy provides services I challenge anyone to find any better anywhere in Sacramento. Such service, PERSONAL care each customer is privy to goes back to the days when doctors and pharmacists actually cared about patients and their wellbeing - almost as far back as "the horse-and-buggy days of yore". And yes. Pucci's DOES make house calls! ...deliveries for a next-to-nothing fee. This can be so helpful if you're so sick you can't get out of bed, much less drive to the pharmacy to pick up the pills you need to get well enough to drive safely once again.But it is so much more than that. It's having Tom or Carla or one of the other staff members holler out your name and ask how you're doing today as you enter the store. Or it's asking you if you've read one of their unique and happily insane greeting cards, especially if you look a little tired or like you need a pleasant distraction from your daily routine. Or it's Tom reaching out and holding your hand and calmly explaining a new drug your doctor says you have to take after explaining it will not only help what ails you, but will most likely make all your long hair fall out. A simple "It'll be OK" goes so much further, somehow, when you know Tom's concern is genuine, not just some memorized phrase pharmacists at these huge conglomerate drugstores are told to say to make it 'seem' as if they maybe might care - until after you paid at the counter, at least. Tom is, in case you hadn't noticed, one of my heroes - as this little staff member named Carla (with a heart 10 times bigger than she is) - and both have been taking excellent, way 'above and beyond the call of duty' care of me for more years that any of us truly want to know. They are all family to me and each staff member treats me like I am part of theirs. I would never wander to some big-time pharmacy, be it inside an even BIGGER store where everything is supposedly cheaper, or by one of those conglomerate super-pharmacies who are too big, too impersonal to pay attention if some new drug you've been prescribed by a specialist not familiar with drug interactions for conditions totally unrelated to his specialty is now going to kill you. Tom and the other pharmacists at Pucci's are meticulous about such issues, constantly alert and current with knowledge of new drugs. They've actually caught such conflicting prescriptions for me and my friends over these past many years - literally saving my life on at least two occasions.Yes. I always feel safe and extremely well taken care of as long as I am taken care of by each of the experts at Pucci's, big enough to have whatever you may need - but small enough to make sure every customer is treated like they are the ONLY customer and worth a million bucks. I LOVE my Pucci's.