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re: Walgreens Meltdown: 700 Stores Set to Close as Inflation Crushes Retail Giants
Posted on 8/16/24 at 5:54 pm to loogaroo
Posted on 8/16/24 at 5:54 pm to loogaroo
Walgreens can claim that all they want but everyone in my area hates Walgreens. Poorly staffed, slow service, and the pharmacy is often the most expensive one in town.
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Posted on 8/16/24 at 5:59 pm to TheFonz
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I miss K&B though. In one stop you could get your medication, get a gallon of ice cream, and a six pack of nasty, cheap-arse beer.
It's still like that. The Walgreens and the like are constantly out of medications (keep a low inventory) and partially fill scripts.
They never run out of the things that make you need the medications that they run out of, beer, cigs, candy, chips.............................
I really doesn't make sense.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 6:09 pm to ruzil
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The Walgreens and the like are constantly out of medications (keep a low inventory)
This has been my experience any time I've attempted to send a prescription to them within the last several years. They haven't been able to fill it, to the point that I've either waited over a week for a "truck that's coming in tomorrow" that they can't tell you whether your meds are on board or not, or called my doctor to change it to a mom and pop around the corner that fills it immediately.
The prescription I'm on is very important that you stay steady, but the pharmacists there don't seem to give two shits about any of that and always treated me rudely when I was just trying to get answers on a definite timeline.
"I need to know if this will be arriving on the truck tomorrow or if this will be another 2 days until your next delivery. It's very important."
"I can't tell. Call us tomorrow afternoon."
This isn't just one Walgreens in one city, this has been across multiple stores in 2 states.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 6:15 pm to RazorBroncs
That kind of shite is why I no longer use Walgeeens.
I’d use local instead if they weren’t outright telling me not to fill there because the reimbursement from insurance is too low and they lose money on the deal.
I’d use local instead if they weren’t outright telling me not to fill there because the reimbursement from insurance is too low and they lose money on the deal.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 6:26 pm to loogaroo
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Walgreens Meltdown: 700 Stores Set to Close as Inflation Crushes Retail Giants
Thank God Bidenomics just killed price goug... err... inflation.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 6:45 pm to loogaroo
Good! We need to go back to mom and pop pharmacy’s and a lot of other things!
Posted on 8/16/24 at 6:52 pm to alphaandomega
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Drop one off and expect to wait a minimum of 45 minutes.
Lol. Yeah. That’s for you to shop in the store.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 6:57 pm to Lawyered
quote:This seems totally plausible to me.
Wags doesn’t give you enough hours of personnel to work it adequately so everyone is doing the job of multiple people. And you get so behind, there is no reason to work super hard bc you won’t ever get caught up
Plus they don’t give raises and will cut your hours of the help they do give you so the trained people end up leaving bc they have bills to pay and the vicious cycle of hiring people and attempting to retrain them goes on and on
It’s such a shitshow and maybe the most demoralizing soul crushing place to work
I find American "drug stores" to be among the single most depressing public spaces in the country. They have aisles and aisles of junk food set amongst aisles and aisles of nonsense "medical" products foisted on a public that has been made intentionally sick.
And their pharmacies are nothing to write home about.
I would not be surprised if the other poster was right about them just using this as an excuse to shutter a bunch of stores that were a part of a massive over-expansion.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 7:15 pm to loogaroo
I interviewed with Walgreens long ago, before CVS was much more than a startup. Half of the interview was about the CVS folks coming in and taking pics of every single display and emulating it in their stores.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 9:20 pm to RazorBroncs
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The prescription I'm on is very important that you stay steady, but the pharmacists there don't seem to give two shits about any of that and always treated me rudely when I was just trying to get answers on a definite timeline.
Sadly it’s the systems fault . We as the pharmacist have no control over if the warehouse sends the med. and if we say it’ll come the next day, and it doesn’t, then you’ll get pissed at us for lying to you . There’s a no win situation. I long quit promising that. As I’ve gotten burnt too many times at bitched at for things I can’t control .
And when I had trouble getting meds in, I could make a special manual order.. but guess what.. idiot district managers with some sketchy online mba who wouldn’t know an ace inhibitor from their arsehole get on to you for special ordering drugs that the warehouse isn’t sending . So I couldn’t do it too often only when I think I could get away with it.
It’s such a shite company. Top to bottom. Unsafe working conditions. Their equipment is outdated running computer systems from the 90’s. Half the shite doesn’t work. Just a mess.
Posted on 8/16/24 at 9:48 pm to loogaroo
Neither Walgreens nor CVS would fill prescriptions for ivermectin. Go woke……….
Posted on 8/16/24 at 10:18 pm to Bunk Moreland
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Wow, Rite-Aid is pretty much packing up shop here. I thought pharmacies printed money.
Wonderful news. With Rite Aid gone, they'll have no way to verify my vaccine card if it came down to it.
Posted on 8/17/24 at 12:03 am to Lakebound
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Neither Walgreens nor CVS would fill prescriptions for ivermectin. Go woke……….
This is why no one should use either of those chains.
Posted on 8/17/24 at 12:49 am to loogaroo
frick those vax Nazis who withheld IVM & HCQ and let people die.
Posted on 8/17/24 at 2:36 am to Townedrunkard
Didn't Rite-Aid get bought out by CVS or something? I remember hearing that a while back.
Posted on 8/17/24 at 5:18 am to loogaroo
These bold statements about inflation by MSN don’t line up with news being put forth by the current administration about how good things are for all of us.
Posted on 8/17/24 at 5:27 am to Lawyered
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Wags doesn’t give you enough hours of personnel to work it adequately so everyone is doing the job of multiple people. And you get so behind, there is no reason to work super hard bc you won’t ever get caught up Plus they don’t give raises and will cut your hours of the help they do give you so the trained people end up leaving bc they have bills to pay and the vicious cycle of hiring people and attempting to retrain them goes on and on It’s such a shitshow and maybe the most demoralizing soul crushing place to work People are fricking arseholes and they’re so mean and nasty.
I hear this daily, appreciate your corroboration.
Posted on 8/17/24 at 5:28 am to OceanMan
Amazon has a pharmacy. They’re putting a lot of store fronts out of business.
Posted on 8/17/24 at 5:39 am to BamaScoop
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Good! We need to go back to mom and pop pharmacy’s and a lot of other things!
I made this change 4 years ago with a mom and pop pharmacy when I moved to my new home. I Couldn’t be happier with them and so glad I do not have to go to a retail pharmacy or Walmart any longer.
Posted on 8/17/24 at 5:53 am to Warboo
quote:But, muh price gouging of the Gatorade and Twix... who will they turn to implement Kamabla plan?
Rite aid shut down this year and Walgreens is about to shut down here in my town. Nice job dems
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