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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The world’s gone to hell since drugstores stopped having television tube testers. ;)
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.
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.
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.
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.
#1 & 2 We had a cow out back.... : )
“Back in the day, I sucked milk from a teat.”
Me too! Thanks Mom!
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.
#41 I remember the tube testers at Reed’s Drugstore in Golden Valley, Minnesota (near Minneapolis).
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.
Actually the other way around. CVS bought Aetna.... Used to work for one of these companies....
I do mail order with my United health Medicare plan. No deductable 3_4 day delivery
I remember the half gallons from the vending machine had a little rectangular tab you had to wiggle back & forth to open.
Several of the local Walgreens (East Tennessee) have “Kroger Express.”
Also some of the local Krogers have “Pharmacy by Walgreens.”
With the cream on the top.
“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.
bttt
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 ...
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