I remember those days.
That young one on the left - she's still new to this routine and wondering what the hell she got herself into when she married that Vinnie right out of high school.
Posted on 01/26/2020 4:15:59 PM PST by Libloather
In some towns, it’s getting harder to pick up your blood-pressure pills with that gallon of milk and rotisserie chicken.
Hundreds of regional grocery stores in cities from Minneapolis to Seattle are closing or selling pharmacy counters, which have been struggling as consumers make fewer trips to fill prescriptions and big drugstore chains tighten their grip on the U.S. market.
Grocery pharmacies are getting hit on several fronts, analysts and the companies say. They are too small to wrest competitive reimbursement rates on drugs, they aren’t connected to big medical networks or insurers, and they generally lack walk-in clinics and other health services that draw many customers to CVS and Walgreens locations.
“Our establishment had a community feel, it wasn’t overly busy so we got to really care for our customers,” said Phillip Breker, who managed a now-closed pharmacy at Lunds & Byerlys, a Minneapolis-area grocery chain. “I also saw the numbers in the back end and how that soured in the last 10 years. The company made the right decision.”
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CVS and Walgreens also are working to transform drugstores into health-care hubs, offering services from blood testing to chronic-disease management.
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“Back in the day,”
We had milk delivered in glass bottles.
It’s a new phenomenon.
Drug stores were drugstores.
Then supermarkets decided to add pharmacies recently.
Back in the day, I sucked milk from a teat.
Meanwhile my local “supermarket” expanded its pharmacy and added a walk-in clinic (run by local hospital).
Many prescription items, including both of mine, are “free”.
I used to go to Kroger, but my new job required that I get any long term drugs in 90 day packages through the mail or at CVS. Bye bye Kroger.
We go to Publix for flu shot and $10 Publix card.
Drug stores were drugstores.
Then supermarkets decided to add pharmacies recently.
Across the street from my local Safeway there was a charming old pharmacy. When the Safeway store was remodeled, it opened its own pharmacy and the pharmacy across the street closed. What will happen now?
We use our kroger pharmacy for prescriptions & my vaccines. They are constantly busy. The drive thru is always full.
Was it uphill in the snow both ways too? :P
Me, too. LOL
I get mine went in the mail. I look at the pharmacy line and thank God I decided to go this route.
” “Back in the day,”
We had milk delivered in glass bottles”
Heck, we just grabbed the cow by the teats.
A big thing is insurance plans giving preference to places like CVS. I had to switch my pharmacy, which I was quite pleased with, for CVS because my part D insurance plan listed CVS as a “preferred” pharmacy. They’d charge me more if I used my old drug store.
I remember those days.
That young one on the left - she's still new to this routine and wondering what the hell she got herself into when she married that Vinnie right out of high school.
I’m about to make the transition from employer coverage to retirement with coverage from a Medicare Advantage plan with a prescription plan. Part of making the choice among the various plans offered was being able to retain the same grocery-store pharmacy I use now at a reasonable cost. After finally locating the plan formulary along with the in-network pharmacy list. I was very pleased to find my current pharmacy on their preferred savings list where my drugs can be acquired at a great price. Needless to say, I’d be very irritated if the store decided to discontinue their pharmacy.
I am only in my 30s but remember the drugstores in the area. They always had the best candy and magazines along with unique small gifts. The pharmacy was always in back and elevated 2-3 feet above the regular sales floor. I still remember seeing the signs Upjohn, Squibb, and Lilly above the pharmacy aisles.
“Across the street from my local Safeway there was a charming old pharmacy. When the Safeway store was remodeled, it opened its own pharmacy and the pharmacy across the street closed. What will happen now?”
Exactly.
You left out, "barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways"
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