Posted on 01/26/2020 4:15:59 PM PST by Libloather
The only time I would EVER buy prescriptions at CVS or Walgreen, is if it was an absolute emergency, and they were the only pharmacy for miles. We get our prescriptions from our local, small-town pharmacy. Get a vital prescription from the ER in the middle of the night? Our pharmacist will come down and open up the shop and fill the script. Insurance companies are trying to drive small pharmacies out of business by forcing people to buy only where THEY want you to fill prescriptions. And that would be CVS(Caremark), Walgreen, or Wal-Mart. There were petitions at our drugstore last summer, to get the state legislature to pass a law, preventing that from happening. The law was passed, and went into effect Nov 1, 2019!
My wife and I make a date out of it.
$20.00 worth of gift cards and we use them to buy some fried chicken and sides. Eat that for a couple days.
Many prescription items, including both of mine, are “free”.
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Publix has some that are free. A few others are cheaper than Walmart and the GoodRx discount.
“In Colorado, the Kroger stores are called King Soopers”
actually, King Soopers is an old Colorado chain now owned by Kroger, but they are NOT Kroger stores ... when Kroger bought the chain, almost the only thing they visibly changed was the introduction of a few of the Kroger brands ... Kroger did the same thing when they bought the Harris-Teeter chain in the Carolinas: left everything alone that was visible to the customers except adding a few Kroger brands ... Kroger is one of the few big companies that doesn’t destroy successful ongoing concerns when they buy them ...
You go into a Walgreens or CVS on Long Island and you will find shoppers with carts doing weekly shopping, milk, juice, cereal,paper products, even frozen White Castles. Long way from getting a prescription along with some toothpaste and Gilette razors.
I still get milk delivered twice a week. They only use glass bottles for stuff like egg nog during the holidays, though. Milk is in plastic, reusable bottles.
“The world’s gone to hell since drugstores stopped having television tube testers. ;)”
yeah, it’s been a bitch to keep my old 14” B&W set going since then ... i’ve been forced to make my own tubes now ...
“#1 & 2 We had a cow out back.... : )”
did you have a brown cow that gave chocolate milk like ours did?
“You go into a Walgreens or CVS on Long Island and you will find shoppers with carts doing weekly shopping, milk, juice, cereal,paper products, even frozen White Castles. Long way from getting a prescription along with some toothpaste and Gilette razors.”
that really is amazing, because around my neck of the woods in Colorado, Walgreens is insanely expensive for pretty much everything they sell compared to nearly every other store in town of every different kind ...
I agree. Around here it is near impossible to test tv tubes anymore. I need to ask around and see what folks are doing now—using face plant or petetweeter I guess.
Things are more expensive here as well, but both chains offer points and discounts. Seeing a mom with five boxes of Cheerios in her cart is not unusual. And if she’s buying the cereal why not get the milk and juice and chips and Coke and maybe a sixpack of Bud.
It’s annoying if all I want is some toothpaste and artificial tears, but the worst is when some shopper shows up at the pharmacy to pick up meds and proceeds to checkout a shopping cart full of stuff.
One of my favorite website is called AmesFanClub, and it was discussed about stores closing pharmacies...
Back in the 50's my dad ran a dairy and we delivered those glass bottles of milk at 4:00 AM to peoples doorsteps.
I haven’t seen a magazine forever! Looks like some good articles in them too. Thanks for posting.
Can't let the topic of Pharmacy go by without posting a link to "Fridays TV Show" (1981) [Show M-03] " Drugs ℞ Us " #3 starring Mark Blankfield who can handle it. With Larry David, Michael Richards and Andie Kaufman inadvertently giving good advice.
I remember the days when girls used empty frozen orange juice cans in their hair instead of curlers. I guess you would call that a “life hack” now.
Grocery stores are hooking up wit pharmacies - Kroger and CVS for instance
Haven’t the Feds just outlawed paper prescriptions?
Mother?
I’m old enough to remember not only that but also going to the ice plant to get ice...lol
Was using CVS and liked it, but had to switch for my Part D. Now using Winn Dixie...but man are they slow...grrr
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