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Skriven 2013-06-22 18:30:26 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
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> tip the driver and was refused - go figger.
-> 
->  SR> The Walgreens stores are the worst at it, followed by Rite-Aid.  At
->  SR> least around here.  There's only one indie pharmacy around any
more,
->  SR> and it's well out of my way.  They have plenty of "stuff" too, but
->  SR> also have an entire separate area for durable medical goods. I
think
->  SR> that's where they make their money.
-> 
-> Well, sure. Although there is good steady income in filling scripts. The
-> durable medical goods though tend to be one-time sales. How many
walkers, 
CPAP
-> machines, etc. does one need.
-> 
Lots, apparently. I think they deliver to the local retirement communities. 

-> I dunno how it is where you are where property prices are out the roof. 
But,
-> around here, if you see a CVS on one corner - look across the street and 
there
-> is either a Walgreen's there or in the process of being built. Or the 
other way
-> around. 

We don't have the land available, generally, in the middle of town.  It's 
already built on. They did build a Rite Aid fairly recently, after tearing 
down an old restaurant to do it.  I'd rather have had a new restaurant. 
The 
store is too big for the lot and looks like a big hulking box squatting 
there.  
 
-> CVS ticked me off over twenty years ago by instituting a policy that no 
script
-> went out the door for less than U$10. I got very irate, extremely 
colourful in
-> my word selection, told them where they could stick their prescriptions, 
store

That policy is long gone I think.  I have a zero co-pay for most stuff, so 
it's hard to be totally certain.  

-> and their mothers-in-law for all I cared. And vowed never to return to 
CVS for
-> anything. So far, I have stuck to my guns on that. Walgreen's just 
disgusts me
-> with what they have become even though they have not done anything 
specific to
-> rouse my ire.

Their clerks have a habit of changing the rules on coupons and the like
mid-
stream, and of making up their own when they don't know what they're doing. 
You know it's bad when the customer knows more about what they're supposed 
to do than the clerk does.  It's one thing if it's a pharmacy clerk, but
the 
ones on the main counters?  Pharmacy techs aren't trained with them, 
although I've taught a few here and there. 

Their store brand food items can be pretty good though, just to stay on-
topic. 
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