If you don’t already have an Amazon Prime account, this won’t help you. But if you do, I transferred all of my families prescriptions to the Amazon online pharmacy and not only are they consistently cheaper, they sync with my insurance and they arrive at my door within 2 days of my order placement. Sometimes the Amazon price is even cheaper than the insured price and they offer me a choice. They also have a helpline direct to a pharmacist and you can talk to a real person with no rigamarole and no standing in line. It takes a bit of effort to transfer the scrips as you know, but once done it’s easy. All of our doctors are now familiar with the online pharmacy and have no problem with using it.
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I guess no one else has seen this, or maybe a lot of things have always been locked up so nothing seemingly has changed? The local Wal-Marts now have higher dollar items in the HBC aisle locked and this includes contraceptives. Local grocery stores vary, but I have seen an increase there as well. If you aren’t going to staff people to unlock a case then why even carry it? I guess it’s corporate greed that is driving the extra cost associated with installing, stocking, and accessing locked cases…somehow.
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Huh, I wonder if you could order medicated custards or breakfast breads in advance with better performance…how’s formulary pharmacy going? [Cuts to stressed baker consulting a flow chart that loops all steps 3 times through ‘Is it a kind of meth then?’]
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I don’t understand, is it not that way for also dispensaries and small biz? With the modifier that small biz and employees may ask you not to bake their theft in? (Is there a die for this action in DnD4.5EW?)
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Roll persuasion or deception, depending on whether the employees really want you to bake elsewhere or whether it’s with a wink and a nod. 
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It’s corporate arse-covering. The executives have to show that they’re doing something about the distraction they claim is hurting the bottom line. Of course, CYA always involves taking more losses.
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That’s interesting, thanks.
I don’t have a prime account, and I’m not sure I want one, but I’ll bear that in mind for the future.
Five days is just crazypants long. But I still remember being able to go to an indie pharmacy and have them fill it while you wait. I suspect that’s been made more difficult with the proliferation of medications available and the level (real or perceived) of abuse of said medications. I get treated like a criminal every time I refill a controlled substance that I’ve been taking for almost 20 years, and it’s not a drug (as far as I’m aware) that’s particularly popular on the street.
But five days would quickly become a huge problem for me (and a lot of other people in the US) because that’s about as early as a lot of insurance plans allow you to refill a prescription, so you’d be constantly just about to run out, or just plain run out whenever there’s any kind of hiccup. I get very antsy about the controlled substance I mentioned above, because without it: horrible withdrawal and possible seizures. The blank looks of, “I dunno, we don’t have it and I don’t know when we’re going to get it” from pharmacy personnel is particularly terrifying and a common occurrence lately.
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We’re also a tiny little town with drugstores on every corner.
Rite Aid recently closed it’s doors.
The really funny thing is my nauseatingly red town and county lost their collective tiny little mind.
The anti socialist anti everything population wanted the government to force them to stay open for, get this, the good of the community.
As far as shoplifting, according to my local groups everything is basically free because Biden has instructed the police to not arrest criminals.
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Thanks Joe! That sure fixed the cost of living (greedflation/corporate profiteering) crisis!
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