All the Rite Aids in Michigan closed.
Many CVS and now a lot of Walgreens’ are shutting down, too.
I want them to be open and convenient for me.
Not a government delivery scam with all online or whatever they have in mind to replace drug stores.
I know the overpriced health and beauty aids and the convenience store level food and beverage prices in the non-Rx part of the stores are being passed over by consumers. But I want real brick and mortar stores open. (As all know I am a Luddite.)
Two of my fascinating true stories:
Elderly Chinese woman’s long delayed diabetic supplies from the online supplier ended up somehow in my package bin at my apartment building. Apparently delayed for a couple of weeks and sent to another wrong address first._So I walked out and looked for her address one cold night and her maybe 19 yr.old niece hesitatingly came to the apartment building glass door after I held up a box.
She said she is going to college here and is now taking care of her aunt who lives with her, and the aunt has been crying because the online place insisted they already sent her supplies and they were marked “delivered” online and she couldn’t get more. Now I solved it by taking the package to her building.
2nd. Husband of my coworker also had a “delivered” online record but it was NOT delivered. His medication was vital but the doctor refused since he gave the Rx once for the online place and his computer said “delivered”, the online place would not duplicate it, and his old in person brick and mortar pharmacist said he could not just supply him any. At the last minute before running out
his doctor considered the effect of his patient ending up soon in the ER, he relented and was able to convince the appeals department of the online company to send the medication. Highly stressful.
I hate the internet age.
[[I hate the internet age.]]
It’s good in some ways, but yes, very bad in other ways- i think the bad may even outweigh the good
Amazon will be the next up for the legal drug trafficking biz. I wonder if this lawsuit cites anything such as oh idk Ivermectin scripts?
Rite Aid was on the ropes 35 years ago.
Retail can be brutal.
I want my Weatherwax back!