The Pharmacist Is Out: Supermarkets Close Pharmacy Counters

Wall Street Journal via MSN ^ | 1/26/20 | Sharon Terlep, Jaewon Kang

[Tijeras_Slim]

The world’s gone to hell since drugstores stopped having television tube testers. ;)

[Hatteras]

We had a “milk box” on the porch by the kitchen door. The milkman would deliver milk in glass bottles a couple of times a week.

[Viking2002]

Yep. Remember the old insulated aluminum milk boxes we had on the front porch that the milkman used to take our old bottles and put fresh, cold ones in? And this was back then there wasn’t any 2%, 1%, and skim options. You drank whole milk or you didn’t drink any, period.

[Dalberg-Acton]

The pharmacy at my local Super 1 grocery store is going strong, beating CVS prices by a wide margin and most antibiotics are free. They are owned by Brookshires.

[Trumpet 1]

151.00$ and then tax added on. Not much savings. Shingrex part one. Maybe 10 or 15 % at best. Still better than nothing. Good RX may be a better discount for other (non-injectable) prescriptions.

[Covenantor]

I remember...and there was no need for a separate skim order as the milk wasn't homogenized. Cream floated to the top. Had to shake the bottle vigorously to mix it. As a reward for bringing the milk in on mornings got to lick the paper cap.

[minnesota_bound]

#1 & 2 We had a cow out back.... : )

[Viking2002]

Oh, I about bankrupted Mom and Dad when I was a kid. LOL Mom said I'd go through a gallon of milk a day, and my dad would rage because we were always out. I still drink up to a quart of skim a day now. Milk rarely goes bad in our fridge. Especially when I keep a jar of kryptonite - uh, I mean peanut butter - in the cabinet. 🤣 I'll sometimes get up at 4 AM, and stand in the kitchen, half asleep, with a big glass of cold milk and a spoon, eating a quarter of the jar.

[dljordan]

“Back in the day, I sucked milk from a teat.”

Me too! Thanks Mom!

[tired&retired]

I remember squirting each other while milking. I can still squirt water from a bowl or pool with my hand using the same movement.

We drank it straight from the cow, a real incentive to strip and wash the udders completely.

[minnesota_bound]

#41 I remember the tube testers at Reed’s Drugstore in Golden Valley, Minnesota (near Minneapolis).

[MikelTackNailer]

Yeah, well we had to run along side of the lactating buffaloes, shoving the calfs aside to get milk on our corn flake. That’s right, singular - back before they split it all up so the flake would fit into the box that wasn’t invented yet. Uphill both ways. And we LIKED it like that.

[billphx]

Actually the other way around. CVS bought Aetna.... Used to work for one of these companies....

[UB355]

I do mail order with my United health Medicare plan. No deductable 3_4 day delivery

[P.O.E.]

I remember the half gallons from the vending machine had a little rectangular tab you had to wiggle back & forth to open.

[scrabblehack]

Several of the local Walgreens (East Tennessee) have “Kroger Express.”

Also some of the local Krogers have “Pharmacy by Walgreens.”

[sanjuanbob]

With the cream on the top.

[sanjuanbob]

“Back in the day,”

As a 10y old I “read” my first Playboy magazine (for hours) on the magazine rack of the corner pharmacy. Good mamories.

[timestax]

bttt

[catnipman]

around my neck of the woods, walgreens both sucks and blows, while CVS only blows ... but our Walmart pharmacies are truly awesome ... can’t say enough good things about them ...