Rite Aid bought out our local pharmacy chain around Seattle (Bartell Drugs) a few years ago and it’s been a steady decline since. One of the two locations near me has closed down, and the one I go to has been more of a nightmare to deal with every time I go. I really need to get everything transferred over to CVS.
GoodRx is realizing handy since you can use it pretty much anywhere. If you meds are available at https://costplusdrugs.com then it could be significantly cheaper there. They are mail order
only and don’t take insurance but they are often an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE cheaper!!! I have a prescription that’s covered by insurance and it’s still cheaper to get it from coat plus without insurance.
Having thought on it some more, I strongly suspect that they bought Bartell Drugs (local to Seattle and the surrounding areas) specifically because the real estate was valuable. Close the store, sell the real estate.
And I’m still salty about Pharmacia getting bought out by Medley and then going under. Why can’t anyone just run a pharmacy without jumping through hoops chasing infinite growth? Pretty soon we’re all gonna be getting our meds from either Walmart or Amazon.
What flabbergasts me is the clear conflict of interest between infinite growth and actual patient care. We really need to take this profit model out of healthcare, the only people it hurts are us. Unions in all healthcare fields are about the only thing that can combat it now without actual legislation imo.
Forgive me on the (probably not totally accurate) details but I recall reading about how independent pharmacies get screwed over because insurance companies dictate what medications cost and therefore force these smaller independent pharmacies to sell their drugs at loss much of the time.
Rite Aid bought out our local pharmacy chain around Seattle (Bartell Drugs) a few years ago and it’s been a steady decline since. One of the two locations near me has closed down, and the one I go to has been more of a nightmare to deal with every time I go. I really need to get everything transferred over to CVS.
Switch over to a locally owned pharmacy if you can. The chains burn their pharmacists out.
When they bought out Bartell’s, I commented that I assumed they would intentionally run it into the ground. That appears to have been accurate.
Fuck Rite Aid.
GoodRx is realizing handy since you can use it pretty much anywhere. If you meds are available at https://costplusdrugs.com then it could be significantly cheaper there. They are mail order only and don’t take insurance but they are often an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE cheaper!!! I have a prescription that’s covered by insurance and it’s still cheaper to get it from coat plus without insurance.
Sadly, I don’t do mail order drugs anymore after having had some very bad experiences with time-sensitive medications in the past.
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Having thought on it some more, I strongly suspect that they bought Bartell Drugs (local to Seattle and the surrounding areas) specifically because the real estate was valuable. Close the store, sell the real estate.
And I’m still salty about Pharmacia getting bought out by Medley and then going under. Why can’t anyone just run a pharmacy without jumping through hoops chasing infinite growth? Pretty soon we’re all gonna be getting our meds from either Walmart or Amazon.
What flabbergasts me is the clear conflict of interest between infinite growth and actual patient care. We really need to take this profit model out of healthcare, the only people it hurts are us. Unions in all healthcare fields are about the only thing that can combat it now without actual legislation imo.
Forgive me on the (probably not totally accurate) details but I recall reading about how independent pharmacies get screwed over because insurance companies dictate what medications cost and therefore force these smaller independent pharmacies to sell their drugs at loss much of the time.
After writing this I did google it and found an article from a couple years ago: https://whyy.org/segments/the-hidden-players-putting-independent-pharmacies-out-of-business/
Use Costco if you have a membership