Rite Aid bought out our local pharmacy chain around Seattle (Bartell Drugs) a few years ago and it’s been a steady decline since. One of the two locations near me has closed down, and the one I go to has been more of a nightmare to deal with every time I go. I really need to get everything transferred over to CVS.
Switch over to a locally owned pharmacy if you can. The chains burn their pharmacists out.
And I’m still salty about Pharmacia getting bought out by Medley and then going under. Why can’t anyone just run a pharmacy without jumping through hoops chasing infinite growth? Pretty soon we’re all gonna be getting our meds from either Walmart or Amazon.
What flabbergasts me is the clear conflict of interest between infinite growth and actual patient care. We really need to take this profit model out of healthcare, the only people it hurts are us. Unions in all healthcare fields are about the only thing that can combat it now without actual legislation imo.
Use Costco if you have a membership
So they basically made illegal money, and now that the legal punishment is looming, they jump ship, yes?
CVS coming to a corner near you.
They couldn’t increase their profits over last quarter I guess and now the board of directors need a few hundred million for their hard work.
Down to two
I wonder If Walgreens and CVS had anything to do with this.
Walgreens tried to buy rite aid in 2016-2018. As part of that deal, rite-aid sold a bunch of stores in towns that only had the two.
