Their stores a grim these days.
One overworked kid doing everything non-pharmacy. A pharmacist. Maybe a pharm tech.
That’s it.
3 max people on payroll at any given time.
And me, a hospice nurse, waiting on hold on the phone for 20-30 minutes to see if any of those people can tell me if they have any Roxanol in stock for my patient actively dying of bone cancer.
Our closest store is exactly like that and the staff found out a week or so that the location is going to be closing in like a month.
Use a local pharmacy if you have the option. CVS and Walgreens are terrible to their pharmacists and other employees.
CVS BOUGHT my health insurance company earlier this year.
If we are going to be cursed with private healthcare, can we at least maintain a competitive market? Right now it’s an oligopoly at best, effectively a private monopoly for a lot of people.
Yeah I can only go to CVS due to my insurance :(
That has to be illegal right? It’s so obvious what they are doing. Buying insurance companies then forcing the customers to use their other product. And the “customer” didn’t really have a choice of what insurance to get because their company chooses for them.
The company picks the insurance based on the best deal they can get…
Try goodrx, I’m able to get my medicine at a local pharmacy that my insurance won’t pay for at the same price as the chain they try to make me go to.
Best we can do is a dystopian shit show.
Aetna? I thought it was the other way around. If so TIL.
I can’t remember the last time I saw a local pharmacy. The chains ran them out of business around here a long, long time ago. Best we had was one particular Realo, but then they got the local TriCare contract and wow, they got in over their heads. All their long-time employees quit and the quality of the place is abysmal now.
We lost our local pharmacy before Covid. Between CVS and Walgreens, Walgreens does a decent job. CVS always had like 6 employees running around in the pharmacy and yet they still took forever to do anything. It was almost impressive.
Each of you needs to Google independent pharmacy near me and give them a call. You’ll be astounded when they pick up the phone on the first try.
Tried this. He bitched because our doctor was 45 minutes away and refused to take us on we’ve had the same sleep aid scrip for years.
I am sorry to hear the place you tried was a dud. The thing about indies is each one is different. Thank you for giving it a shot - while I don’t work in each place I am steadfast in believing as a whole you’ll have the best experience at independent places that (usually) want your business.
Good. I walked out of my CVS warehouse job last month, what a shit company to work for.
but I can get meds online for 30% less (or a lot more, depends on the medication)
But no controlled substances cries in ADHD
