The drugstores get paid set “agreed to”amounts by insurance or health maintenance orgs.The pharmacists are squeezed between what the chain gets for their services, the drug companies pricing schemes and the chains desire for profits. So they have to produce more drug prescriptions per hour. Hence, working conditions become intolerable because a careful pharmacist cannot work as fast as is profitable for the chain.
The chains will automate further, less pharmacist will be employed and more technicians will do much of the labor..they will probably allow more techs to work with pharmacists. All adds up to more errors and oversight and personnel issues. Bidenflation makes it worse. Good luck to the overburdened pharmacists.
Most everyone is getting squeezed, what makes them the exception?
My daughter used to be a pharmacy tech at a Walgreens. They’re stretched to thin, too.