I can only imagine how hard it is to staff stores that are located on every corner in America.
Our vet recently announced a significant cut back in hours.
“CVS and Walgreens are closing hundreds of U.S. stores”
I wonder what might be contributing to that decision?
Lawlessness breeds rampant crime, hundreds of stores close. Next up - the race baiters screaming “Store deserts” where the crime is the highest.
Pretty soon, we’ll have to buy all of our soap, deodorant, and shampoo on Amazon. Then all we have to do is keep the porch pirates at bay.
Are they only hiring the vaxxed?
Our closest CVS, in Bozeman, MT, sent a crew over from Billings and housed them in a hotel while they were short staffed. Drive-thru pharmacy was closed and the inside pharmacy hours were reduced. Thing have gotten better - but not back to where it used to be.
I can't remember the last time I saw an "AMERICAN" pharmacist at my CVS, Rite Aid or Walgreens.
Gee, could this have anything to do with it?
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I quit going to CVS entirely when they got rid of their human tellers and put in automated ones — so I can do the work of the supposed CVS company.
BS to that.
This is the sort of behavior that drives even someone like me to buy more and more stuff online — local retailers are run by idiots.
I’ve learned to call ahead if heading to the pharmacy. They change the hours so often that you can’t depend on them being open even during normal business hours. Pharmacies that never previously closed for lunch now do so since they are not sufficiently staffed to have a full crew on duty while the others are eating.
Pharmacies now just have one check-out clerk so you have lines forming eight to 10 or more deep with people coughing and sneezing, or obviously in pain, and crying babies, etc.
Society as a whole is collapsing as our quality of living is quickly regressing while the media tells us everything is totally awesome!
The reasons they cannot adequately staff their pharmacies is the all three outlets mentioned are horrible places to work.
It’s gonna all be BOTS and ‘puters soon.
It’s 90% pills out of a big bottle into a little bottle.
A modified paint-formula mixer could do it.
The rest is prepackaged already.
This has more to do with the decline of rural America, due to off-shoring, factories closing, bi-coastal only investing. It’s more than just pharmacies specifically-
It’s bull 💩. My wife is a pharmacist and she’s only allowed 27 hours of tech help and her pharmacy is opened 67 hours so she’s by herself
“CVS and Walgreens are closing hundreds of U.S. stores and launching new healthcare offerings as they try to transform themselves into providers of a range of medical services, from diagnostic testing to primary care.”
Their new business models will be moving away from generic drugs into walkin/up health care based on instant lab values and other tech to enable instant diagnosis/treatment by MDs not in the pharmacies. Trained RNs will replace pharmacists at the new diagnostic stations in the pharmacies.
Generic drugs will be filled and mailed to end user/patients by Amazon, Costco and new entries into generic drugs for most of America. The generics will be pre packaged in weekly, monthly, 60 or 90 day Rxes.
I have not gotten a prescription that I physically picked up at any pharmacy in a long time. Unless it was amoxicillin for a sinus infection.
The local 24 hour CVS went from 6 am to 12 pm now...
“safe and effective”...